The man and the empress

Griffin had never met him first.
In fact you'd never met the Living member of any royal family. In all of his 24 years of life the newly-appointed CEO of the nation and chairman of the National Council I rarely ever left his home country. He was the only child of his father who had turned they're small little monarchy into a burgeoning Empire with the greatest economy in the region. But that same isolationism that had brought his father such success risk undoing all the good that had been done. Without foreign markets to trade in their economy would grind to a halt. It was from this position of desperation that this man had gone against everything is father had stood for to end the policy of isolationism period.
Now he was on his way to his first official meeting with a foreign dignitary in his life. He was so ill prepared for this. His father had died suddenly in an "accident" and the board quickly had installed him as the new head of state.
But there was little time to focus on that. He had to be the leader for his people and the defender of his father's Legacy. With this final thought he looked out the window of his luxury helicopter that was transporting him to his meeting with this foreign dignitary.
He knew very little about the empress and their isolationism prevented them from having much information on her butt he was certain to make a good impression