[AnotherUnixGeek]

the girl’s staunchly conservative* grandfather

"Staunchly conservative" - liberal-speak for "homicidal killer of his granddaughter".

[MinuteGal]

"The girl's staunchly conservative* grandfather"

In cases of a few worldwide, scattered, ongoing despotic royalties from past to present, "conservative" means sticking to ages-old, sometimes barbaric customs and traditions...which is the case here. Not like our "conservatism".

Leni