"I certainly didn't make it up to intimidate the children," he says, crossing his arms loosely. "Not that it would've been very effective."

As evidenced by the snowball fight. He's not sore that she has to ask -- it's not as though she'd have any way of knowing if he's telling the truth or not -- but new enough to the title that it still feels like a poor fit: prince playing king. Would anyone have needed to ask his father at his age? He finds it doubtful.

(One might call him a biased judge. One would be right.)