lèse-majesté

To avoid /lese-majeste/ you have been presented first to the king and queen.

I, as the king's mother and a member of the council of the regency,—I protest against what appears to me a crime of lese-majeste.

Was he ashamed of this crime of lese-majeste, or did he understand that such a remark would place an impassable gulf between them?

"It shall be a pleasure to kill you, Lorenz," observed his adversary, displaying his ignorance of lese-majeste.