Possible Clues:

• Monarch relaxed, being well lubricated
• See 9
• --- palms (bribed)
• Like some pigs at a fair
• Craving to eat a scone first well buttered
• DS, eager for excitement, got moving with gun?
• Hard to handle, in a way
• Facilitated a son living in gluttony
• Readied, as a baking pan
• King grew less severe, becoming lubricated