An arranged marriage is set up between the King's ward and the Duke of Burgundy but this is interrupted. A man promises not to look up a woman's skirt as she slides down a roof towards him.

A man is stripped for tortured, wearing only a loincloth, showing his bare chest.

The protagonist clearly says "son of a bitch" when denied a second glass of wine by the executioner, now chaperone.

The protagonist is stripped and tortured in the dungeon by flogging, fire branding and being placed in a cage suspended in a tower.

The king regularly drinks wine as does the protagonist, even when an infant, added to his baby bottle with milk added.