In Adhanian parties, it was customary for elder lords to praise young ladies wearing their mother's or grandmother's jewelry and saying how she looked just like them.
This would be then followed by some exaggerated recount of how the man remembered seeing them for the first time and reminiscing how long time has passed since then, thus drawing attention to the long time their families had known each other.
And such things happened with the Queen Mother as well.
Alozmer had gifted her with some very precious royal heirlooms, with one of them even belonging to multiple generations of queens going back almost two centuries.
Hence it tore her heart to pawn even a single one of them. She felt she was committing some kind of sacrilege against the royal family.
Not to mention all the accompanying guilt of how she was going to explain all this to Ptolomy.
