It can happen that even the most diligent of rulers might occasionally seek to escape the burden of office ... or birth.
A sojourn, a partial retirement or just a sabbatical, everyone needs a holiday as they say.
Famously, my great ancestor the Emperor Tiberius took himself away from Rome to his favoured isle of Capri for some considerable time: only to resume his rule after several licentious years, when he was all but obliged to do so.
[Mediterranean flowers in the Balearic's - October 2017]
In the Yeats that followed, other great Emperors absconded from the pressures of the capital, spending protracted periods abroad, on travels, on campaign and in private living. To rule is to suffer and every ruler needs to recharge now and again.
