Related Clues:

• Shy person
• Decreasing in size
• Becoming smaller
• There's getting to be less in monarchy at last
• Such withdrawal is the last thing you'd expect in royalty
• Getting less vice over a short period with support from ruler
• Place that's holy almost has ruler drawing back
• Showing reluctance, northern monarch shoulders honorific Indian title
• Withdrawing from holy place after sacrificing the last monarch
• *Contracting