Avoid
becoming a queen while still a child, which places
rule in someone else's hands while you grow up.
Avoid
spending too much time away from ones country,
which can alienate ones people.
Avoid
marrying a foreign prince,
which can anger ones subjects.
Maintain
amiable relations with major religious leaders who
hold the power to thwart one's attempt to rule.
Avoid marrying
for love rather than diplomatic reasons, and without
an understanding of the base nature of the man one has chosen.
Abandon
intimate friendships with men after marriage,
for they may anger one's husband and cause trouble for one's
friends.
Avoid
bestowing favors on ambitious men, who may then murder
one's husband as a means of gaining the throne.
Avoid
placing too much trust in sister queens, who may be
driven more by motives of state than by womanly emotion.
Chief
among all, avoid
becoming implicated in plots to assassinate ones captor,
who is in a position to order ones execution if the
plot is discovered.
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