Protected by the king...

What does it mean? In the early years of my marriage, while we were living in Yorkshire. One particular Sunday we went to pick up a family to take to church. I was overwhelmed with pain, the headache I was encountering was too much to bare. So the lady of the house, suggested I stay and sleep it off in her house while they go to church. I could barely handle the light so that was exactly what I did. It didn't take long for me to fall asleep, and I woke up when they got back. Sounds pretty straight forward and nothing wrong with it. Well.. as they were making their way through the house, into the living room I heard the lady of the household say "oh, Sharon must have been downstairs, the television is on" those words may have been a simple phrase to the one saying them, but to me, it was a terrifying sentence to hear. Why, well I hadn't moved from that bedroom. I was asleep the entire time they were at church. It wasnt till some time later on did we find out she...