When the times right in a short while hopefully . .. You can handle them , just for short periods though , that's fine as long as they keep feeding well , if they suddenly went off their food after regular daily handling then that would be the time to reduce the handling of course ..
That's the beauty of having more than one snake but that's getting ahead of ourselves again
I guess Royals are just a little more sensitive about handing , generally speaking . My Pastel Royal literally eat out of my hands as he's monstrous feeder , almost Retic-like feeding response ...