Chapter Twenty-Two
As with most powerful men, when the end came for the General, it came quickly and with gusto.
It seems the court’s martial was intrigued with the Queen’s video tapes, taking much time and many extensions of the hearings in order to review the evidence. Numerous rumors circulated, one of which had the prudish Adjutant General secretly taking copies home for a full weekend of ‘examination’.
Whatever the level of interest, the visual evidence could not be ignored. The General was convicted of ‘moral depravity’. Before sentencing the Queen wrote to the court suggesting that, rather than military prison where the General may be subjected to possible abuse by the relatives of those he had sodomized, he instead be remanded to her custody for appropriate punishment and thera
