@redmikan I'd forgotten about the yoga thing myself. Tanya walked in on Iris doing some yoga stuff just after she got expelled and didn't know what the hell she was looking at. I guess she must've taught her mom afterwards.
When the mention criticism of the government makes me think of the effect of the Russians losing the russo-japanese war in early 20th centurythat then helped bolster the discouragement and dislike to the monarchy which then with the addition of Lenin in the Great war led to the Russian civil war and the creation of the Soviet Union
Anyone else is worrying that this Earl Monroe is in cahoots with Yuri who may have been birthed from a woman from the enemy country? And they're currently not in the fief for the reason of collaborating with the enemy?
Foreign spy is likely in the story. It's a shoujo manga after all. But as plot,it's about as stupid the theory, President Trump is a Russian agent. Unless she is a princess of the country, she has everything to lose and nothing to gain.