She would be pleasant to the guards if she thought they were behaving in an acceptable and decorous manner, recalled another of the guards in his memoirs.
Here, according to his first biographer, who preserves some details omitted from more decorous records, the brothers became known as the greatest boozers in the north from their convivial prowess.
This faade, that most readily seen from the town, presents a decorous and impassive public face with one of the most architecturally severe elevations of the palace ("see illustration right").
