He also realizes that the others who had hurt her, though not as mannerly or as gentlemanly as he ...may appear in her eyes, as all the same. To her, he was being as much like them, as he was not like them. And the truth of that brings the King to an uncomfortable realization.

He, too, was looking at her not as a person, and not for what he could give her, but rather for what she could give him.