Royal Guard, Male Noble and others in “Unfinished Business”

Announcing Prince Lelouch vi Britannia, seventeenth heir to the royal Britannian imperial throne!

I heard Empress Marianne was killed inside of the Britannia Palace.

There's no way terrorists could've gotten in there.

Which means that the real assassins must have-

Shh!, beware my friend, you'll regret it if anyone hears that kind of talk around the palace.

And yet the boy remains, even though his mother is dead, is over.

And the Ashford family who stood behind him is finished as well.

And his sister, the princess?

I understand she was shot in the legs and that she lost her sight!

Blindness caused by trauma though, isn't it?

No difference, now she can't be married off through political gain.