Country divided by a king and queen is telling (9)
I believe the answer is:
narration
'telling' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'country divided by a king and queen' is the wordplay.
'country' becomes 'nation' ('nation' can be a synonym of 'country').
'divided by' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'a king' becomes 'ar' (I've seen this in other clues**).
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'queen' becomes 'r' (r is abbreviation regina. e.g. in ER ).
'ar'+'r'='arr'
'nation' going around 'arr' is 'NARRATION'.
'is' is the link.
(Other definitions for narration that I've seen before include "telling" , "Account of events" , "Spoken account" , "Story" , "Voice-over in film" .)