Pharaoh has chosen for the 1st born Prince many a bride but the Prince refuses every one, most of which on good grounds. As the Prince is under no obligation it is just like our Pharaoh to be nothing but tolerant and fine with each refusal, he is not marrying them and he knows his son of good judgement.

But the Prince, to become Setnakht IV, must marry before his 24th birthday according to Ankrahmunian Law; and seeing how he is 20 he doesn't have that much time to dither. Having said that i suppose four years when one is so young as 20 seems an eternity. Doubtless there are still many suitresss' to be found and therefore there is little reason to actually worry but Nakh, being as upright he is, will not break up any marriage for the given wife to be his, and therefore the longer he tarries the more good woman will be lost to veil and gown.

Nakh has spoken with his father, of which I have been witness, many times on the subject. Nakh has well demonstrated he knows the law and its minutia, and most importantly that he approves of it. The timetable must be met to ensure an heir, and ensuring an heir means ensuring peace and order, otherwise to a bloody succession we may all befall. And that naturally it needs be a woman near equal to his station, for which some reasons he knows to be good and wise and some reasons to be postures and misguided vanities, of which his own father, Pharaoh, acknowledges. I will say though from what I have gleaned I do detect something in him of reservation on the topic at times. Paying attention for the meaning behind the words the Prince values the idea of unconditional love more than he lets on. You can sense something when he talks about duty and the need of a good woman to be a good man, and how to support another has nothing to do with one's birthright but with one's character----and that choosing a woman of high birth but low standing over one the opposite is itself a more damning dereliction of duty to the state than that which any lawbook would have you believe.

Surely our Prince will be a great Pharaoh when he accedes the Throne. Rare it is that one so young is not only diligent but well rounded in his thinking. From the gossip at court it seems he also is rather abstemious in both drink and women, as well as boys, and when he does concede it is more to be social than from personal want. I am confident he will make his father and all we, his father's subjects, proud in his leading of our kingdom.