After the sudden snowfall, talk spreads around the palace that the coronation will be postponed. While rumors continue in the council about who will become king and who is secretly raising soldiers, the Queen announces at the meeting that the ceremony will be held in the first sowing season of next year. She lists taxes, reforms, and snow preparations in the north, and for the former Kiel lands appoints Duke Wheaton as royal tutor and Marquis Rutherford as regent governor.