Turmoil heightens until the son who'd been looking at her ...appears to be the next to reign.

Then suddenly it appears that another son will be the one to reign. The one who makes her feel uncomfortable by the way he looks at her, loses his support and has to accept the fact that he will not become King as he thought he would.  But as sort of a consolation, he does ask for one thing ...for Binnie to be his wife.