Mindtouch (The Dreamhealers, #1)

by M.C.A. Hogarth

For someone who’d been trained to lie with his body—he

The people who hated the Queen held it up as an example of the unnatural policies she would foist on them if given free rein.

Usually this metaphor is not used with royalty as anecedant. In this particular case, "reign" is more appropreate in context.