Don't even need to focus on the throat target his family jewels and crush his balls. She's wearing high heels so she could do some serious damage
There seems to be some metaplot curse that no FL in these kinds of stories can ever take direct action against her opponent. And in general, tactical violence is always a no go. Violence is only ever used because someone lost their temper and was lashing out (ML included).
There are countless situations in this subgenre if the MCs would just cut the damn gordion knot.
Countless situations that could be easily resolved*, somehow missed a whole clause there
Unfortch since she’s a princess, if she responds violently to men it’ll reflect poorly on the country and cause a whole mess politically. Sadly a lot of historical inspired genres will gladly have modern tools and systems then just keep all of the past misogyny with it
It's not a misogyny problem because MLs are under the same curse most of the time. Not as strongly, but most of the time when we see an ML being violent it's because he lost his temper, probably over the MC, rather than a calculated effort to make life better for either of them. Even when it is calculated, it's still steeped in a temper tantrum.
No one else is in that room so I say an accident can occur where one trips and the elbow makes contact with the throat. Or the hot coffee gets spilled. Whoopsie.
Woman do you not know how to throat punch? He is WIDE open.