In terms of being able to relate to William Shakespeare's plays, full of grandeur and foul play, when it's time for truth-telling, all bets are off about who gets to speak to whom and in what setting.
Hermiones, a Queen, was accused by her husbandly King (in A Winter's Tale)of committing adultery with none other than his best lifelong friend.
And she was pregnant and the King's pal left, so she was thrown in jail.