It reminded her of the work meetings she had attended in her previous life, where everyone presented their reports and waited for the next person to finish. The setting was certainly more extravagant, but the underlying process was much the same.
The Duke of Flanders, in particular, had little else to report. As Minister of Foreign Affairs, he would ordinarily have dealt with diplomatic correspondence and negotiations, but there were no significant foreign affairs demanding his attention at present. This was not the modern world, where a new monarch's accession would prompt congratulatory messages from governments around the globe.
