1973 No Security Measures Needed?

Buckingham Palace.

It is a world-renowned tourist attraction, the main residence and office of the British monarch in London.

Located in Westminster, this palace is one of the venues for national celebrations and royal welcome ceremonies. Buckingham Palace exists as an important meeting place in times of celebration or crisis in British history. .

It was built from 1703 to 1705 and was acquired by George III in 1761 as a private bedroom.

Since then, Buckingham Palace has undergone many expansion projects. After more than seventy-five years, it has formed a very large-scale building complex.

When Queen Victoria came to the throne in 1837, Buckingham Palace officially became the king's residence.

At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the public facade of Buckingham Palace was built, forming the image of Buckingham Palace that continues to this day.

Even though the palace's chapel was destroyed by a German bomb attack during World War II, the Queen's Gallery was established on its site and opened to the public in 1962 to display the royal collection.

Now, Buckingham Palace has been completely open to the outside world, and the famous handover ceremony of the Guards is held every morning, which has become a major landscape of British royal culture and an important tourist attraction in London, England.

The limousine drove into Buckingham Palace and stopped in an area that looked like a parking lot.

Fang Li, Silvia and Laura got out of the car.

"Here we are." Laura hid behind Sylvia's back as if she was afraid of Fang Li, and said tremblingly, "Representatives from the Royal Faction and the Cavalier Faction have already arrived here, and a meeting will be held inside."

"Really?" Fang Li ignored Laura's frightened expression and said, "Isn't this a tourist attraction completely open to the outside world? It doesn't matter if you hold a meeting here?"

"Isn't it right to say that it is completely open to the outside world?" Sylvia looked helplessly at Laura who was hiding behind her, and said, "It is said that Buckingham Palace now also functions as the queen's bedroom, and it seems to be an embassy even in normal times. The place where the queen talks with foreign envoys is also here, and someone said it when I held a concert here last time."

"Okay." Fang Li spread his hands and said, "I thought the meeting place must be some kind of fortress filled with magical institutions, but it seems very ordinary now."

However, if you think about it carefully, you can easily understand that this is something that cannot be achieved.

If Buckingham Palace is really a place full of magic traps, it cannot be opened to the public and used as a hotel attraction.

At least, in the external declaration, Buckingham Palace does not have any magical elements.

"It's a shame that the queen dared to use this place as a bedroom."

She is not afraid of being plotted against by those evil magicians. The Queen of England is really brave.

Laura poked her head out from behind Sylvia and said so.

"Although there is no magic or enchantment in effect, there are many knights guarding Buckingham Palace, and the queen herself does not need security measures. As long as she is within the borders of the United Kingdom, the queen is absolutely safe, right? "

finished speaking,

Laura retracted her head again.

Seeing the Supreme Bishop behave like a little girl, Fang Li and Silvia were speechless for a while.

But in Laura's words, Fang Li still noticed something.

"Without security measures, is it absolutely safe to be in the UK?"

Fang Li thought about it.

Speaking so absolutely, does it mean that the queen should have some unconventional means?

Fang Li also vaguely remembered that such a thing was indeed mentioned in the original book, and he might be able to remember it with some effort.

(Forget it, I don't bother to think about it, I will ask directly later.)

With this in mind, Fang Li walked straight forward.

Silvia immediately followed.

"Wait...wait for me!"

Laura immediately followed up in a little embarrassment.

Compared with the calm negotiation with Fang Li just now, there are two extremes in that appearance.

After a while, the three entered Buckingham Palace.

...

In the corridor as spacious as a room, Fang Li and his party walked on the gorgeous velvet carpet that made people dare not step down.

Surrounded by paintings and carvings.

A maid with a black tea set passed by from time to time.

And the retro-style knights wearing armor and looking incompatible with modern times are also like patrols, walking by from time to time.

only…

"...It's really too much vision."

Sylvia's inadvertent murmur resonated with Fang Li.

That's right.

Very excessive.

The knights who walked by from time to time seemed to know Laura, the supreme bishop of the Puritan Church in England, and did not stop them.

However, the eyes of these knights looking at Laura were quite explicit.

It was a look full of contempt, displeasure and even hostility.

It's not that Fang Li doesn't understand the reason.

"Is this the relationship between the Cavaliers and the Puritans?"

As I said before, the regime of the United Kingdom is ruled by the three major powers that check and balance each other.

faction.

Among them, the Royal Faction controls the Cavalier Faction by means of royal orders, the Cavalier Faction uses the Puritan Faction in the form of state affairs props, and the Puritan Faction manipulates the Royal Clan Faction by means of church advice.

The three restrict each other and compete with each other. As long as one of them insists on going its own way in terms of policy, the other two will use various roundabout methods to create a strong wave of protest and obstruct the implementation of its policy.

In addition, the relationship between the three factions and the four cultures has made the country of Britain quite complicated. The biggest mission of the Cavaliers is to maintain the entire country and prevent the complicated United Kingdom from completely disintegrating.

Because of this, the Cavaliers and the Puritans have always had a knot.

That is, the Cavaliers could not accept that the Puritans had gained the same power as themselves.

Originally, the purpose of the existence of Puritanism in England was to fight against the Roman Orthodox Church.

Britain does not want outside interference in its national affairs.

However, the influence of the Roman Orthodox Church spread throughout the world.

If Britain does not obey the orders of the Roman Orthodox Church, it will be charged with "violating Christian teachings".

For this reason, the United Kingdom established the English Puritan Church, its own Christian church system, in its own country.

In this way, Britain can declare to the outside world that "we follow the instructions of British Puritanism" without being led by the nose by the Roman Orthodox Church.

In other words, English Puritanism was originally a political prop.

If the royal family and the Knights are likened to the gears of the country, then the British Puritanism is just lubricant.

But now, the power of Puritanism in England occupies a place between the royal family and the Knights.

For the Knights, of course, they are not reconciled to being restricted by such "props", right?

In view of this, the knights generally only obey the orders of the head of the knights and the Queen of England.

As for the orders given by the Supreme Bishop, the leader of the Puritan Church in England, the knights are usually perfunctory, and sometimes even disobedient.

To sum up, the knights looked at Laura with contempt, displeasure, and even hostility.

But Laura herself seemed to have noticed nothing, and walked ahead with a look of disapproval, making people wonder whether to feel sorry for her rough nerves or thick skin.

At this time...

"It's finally here."

With the sound of such a voice, the group of people stopped.