Dethroned

Arrogance doth go before a fall from grace

for a vice-regal appointment representing

the Queen's presence in her far-flung remnants

of imperial Empire. A governor-general's

position must be appointed to one without

moral blemish, one who has distinguished

herself in the past and whose accomplishments

are meant to buttress and enhance royal representation

from a former colony now a proud sovereign

state in its allegiance to the Crown. A position

of prestige whose elevation in the panoply of

positions has few peers, one occupied by a paragon

of accomplishment who must perforce act not

only with the authority of the office but with

unassuming modesty. Unleashed in that office

instead was a colossal pride of self, deriding the

lesser beings serving the office and the vice-regal

presence to humiliate and sneer at their competent

ordinariness verbally lashed for their damning

absence of obsequious obedience. Until that time

when the oppressed broke the bonds of confidence

unleashing the consequences of unroyal conduct

escorting the hubristic candidate to her exit.