Idea for a book
When the old king finally died everyone expected his successor, his young grandson, to leave the kingdom in the wise hands of his grandfather's elderly advisor. Instead he appoints a school friend as prime minister and the two of them set about reforming the country. Successfully. Peace is attained abroad and harmony at home. Everything is jolly pleasant. Too pleasant. Tediously pleasant, in fact. Realising that many of the grand people of the realm are becoming restive with all this pleasantry, and somewhat bored now themselves, the young king and prime minister hit on a new strategy. They form a secret society through which they perform random acts of unpleasantry, staging kidnappings and robberies, thereby making life just interesting enough again to be perfectly pleasant after all.