Yeah, just watch yourself in Byzantine, they have a nice way of dealing with assassins. I tried getting rid of my aunt, the Empress, who had overthrown me after my father had a rule of about three months before snuffing it of pneumonia, it failed miserably and I was imprisoned, and then released...but not before the guards visited me in the small hours with a pair of scissors, and I don't have any children.
On the up side, when I finally snuff it it should switch over to a more capable character.
