Dearest Gentle Reader, This Author's pen fairly quivers this morning, for the winds have carried in not one, not two, but a veritable tempest of intrigue - from processions forbidden, to long-buried files cracked open, to lords cast from their ancestral seats in the most delicious of ironies. If you believe yourself well-informed, you are almost certainly mistaken - do read on before someone less discreet shares the particulars first.