Making enquiries, like man in palace (6)
I believe the answer is:
asking
'making enquiries' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'like man in palace' is the wordplay.
'like' becomes 'as'.
'man in palace' becomes 'king' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'as'+'king'='ASKING'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for asking that I've seen before include "being inquisitive" , "Questioning" , "Posing a question" , "Begging" , "It demands explanation!" .)