Chapter 279 Joint Declaration of European Royal Families

The funeral and farewell ceremony of Edward VII was even larger than that of Queen Victoria.

In fact, the British have also felt the crisis in recent years. This time is different from the brilliant Victorian era. The British Empire has many competitors who are in the limelight.

In particular, the German Empire not only maintains a strong scale and combat effectiveness in the army, but also desperately catches up with the British Empire in the navy.

As the strategy of the German Empire gradually expands internationally, the German Empire and the British Empire have gradually moved to opposite sides.

As of now, the German Empire is the most powerful enemy of the British Empire, and it is also the enemy most likely to replace the British Empire as the new world hegemon.

At this moment, the British people miss the splendor of the Victorian era even more.

At the peak of the Victorian era, the British Empire was the most powerful country in the world, and other competitors did not pose much threat to the British Empire.

After the grand farewell ceremony, many British people were reluctant to disperse for a long time. They spontaneously organized to commemorate the two monarchs of the Victorian era outside the royal cemetery and on some streets.

The European nobles who came to attend Edward VII's funeral held a grand royal party at the invitation of George V.

How grand was this royal party? There were ten monarchs, the lowest of whom was the king.

There were also many queens, crown princes, princes and grand dukes, as well as noble dukes.

Some dukes of ordinary status were not even qualified to appear at such a party, which was enough to show the high standard and high level of this party.

At the banquet, the European royal family members were basically chatting. Usually these people are from all over the world and live in different places.

For example, monarchs like Arthur usually stay away from Europe and may not come here for several years.

Even European monarchs like William II may not have time to get together with other royal families because of their busy domestic affairs.

Of course, there is another important point, that is, European countries are currently divided into two distinct factions.

As a member of a European country, the behavior of these royal family members also greatly affects the views of their country. Of course, the views of their country also greatly affect their behavior.

To give a simple example, if a country's domestic government and people are particularly close to the UK, even if the ruler of the country has a better relationship with the German royal family, he must consider the opinions of the domestic government and people.

After all, even if the monarchy is still the mainstream of European and even world countries, it cannot be denied that the power of monarchs in various countries has gradually weakened, and there are fewer and fewer monarchs with real power.

The protagonist of this banquet is naturally George V. Although the status and position of German emperors like William II are not worse than George V, after all, it is in London, George V's home court, and it is understandable that George V becomes the protagonist.

In fact, Arthur is looking forward to the change in Britain's attitude after George V ascends the throne. Don't underestimate the authority of the current European royal family. Although the power of a single monarch does not seem so great, the entire European royal family united can also represent five European powers including Britain, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and the Kingdom of Italy, as well as many small and medium-sized European monarchies.

Most of the European monarchies participated in the future World War I, which indirectly led to the weakening of the European monarchy after the war.

As one of the monarchs from the European royal family, Arthur felt it necessary to make some preparations in advance to protect the monarchy.

Even for himself, he should try to keep more European royal families. After all, monarchical countries have a better environment for cooperation when national interests are thrown out.

Keeping more monarchical countries can also bear the free and democratic ideas that have been wildly spread all over the world after the end of World War II, and defend the monarchy, a tradition that has been passed down for thousands of years.

Arthur's idea of ​​protecting the royal power has been recognized and agreed by many European royal families. After all, this proposal is intended to safeguard the interests of all monarchies and royal families from the starting point.

But the plan to implement the idea encountered considerable difficulties. Although the power of monarchs in various countries has weakened, it is still the heyday of the monarchy.

Among the eight major powers in the world, except for the United States and France, all other countries are monarchies.

And France is also constantly changing between the republic and the monarchy, and there are many royalists and forces and people close to the royal family in the country.

Under such circumstances, the royal family members of various countries are naturally not active in promoting the implementation of this treaty.

After all, everyone's rights seem to be very stable, and there seems to be no need to go to such lengths for this treaty.

After all, as members of the royal family of the country, they naturally cannot easily promise something if it is not necessary.

At least, it is highly unlikely that their domestic political forces will be willing to help the royal family of another country for nothing.

To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is to use the power of the country for the private interests of the royal family, and it is even very likely that the army will be dispatched to fight a war.

In the whole of Europe, there are not many royal families that can do this, and there are even fewer that can dispatch their own troops for the royal families of other countries.

At present, the royal families of very few small countries have the idea of ​​reaching such an agreement.

After all, the status of the royal family of a small country is the most unstable, and the country is very likely to cause the royal family to be abolished in a political struggle.

For countries like Bulgaria, where the royal family has a prominent family background, the king will generally not be abolished, but at most his power will be stripped.

Of course, if it is the background of the overall decline of the monarchy after the end of World War II, even if the family background is deep, the throne cannot escape the fate of being abolished.

Unfortunately, these small countries cannot play a key role in the implementation of the treaty. The ones who can really play a key role in the implementation of this treaty are the royal families and monarchs of the five European powers, Britain, Germany, Russia, Austria and Italy.

Because Tsar Nicholas II was not present, and the relationship between Germany and Austria-Hungary was relatively close, whether the treaty could be implemented mainly depended on the opinions of the future King George V of the United Kingdom and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

Although George V has not yet ascended the throne to become king, even if he ascended the throne, he is destined not to have the power like Queen Victoria and Edward VII.

But it cannot be denied that George V, as the future King of the United Kingdom, has a lot of say in the European royal family. Many countries that are close to or directly rely on Britain, their royal families, are also waiting for George V's opinion.

Arthur was still looking forward to the implementation of the treaty, which might be the only chance to reach a treaty to protect the royal power.

Going forward, although there were powerful British monarchs such as Queen Victoria and Edward VII, there was no chance to bring together the royal families of most European countries.

Although Queen Victoria's funeral was a good opportunity, Edward VII would naturally not let Arthur advocate the treaty, gain the opportunity to increase his reputation and gain the favor of many European royal families.

After all, throwing out all the problems, the royal families of all countries were basically consistent only in the position of consolidating the royal power.

As long as someone can reach a treaty to protect the royal power against all odds, this person will also gain a lot of favor and prestige from other royal families, and it is not surprising that he even has a certain voice in the European royal families.

George V was very interested in the treaty to protect the royal power proposed by his cousin Arthur, but George V also understood that he must agree with the opinions from the UK, at least before he officially ascended the throne.

George V also did not want to cause too much chaos in the UK. At present, maintaining the stability of the UK is the most important thing, which is also related to the stability of the British royal family and his own status.

After thinking for a long time, George V finally chose to remain silent. In other words, George V intends to see other people's opinions.

If promoting the treaty is what everyone wants, then George V doesn't mind going with the flow and promoting the implementation of this treaty.

But if other members of the royal family are not very interested in promoting this treaty, then there is no need for him to risk offending other political forces in the country to help Arthur promote this treaty, but he will get nothing.

After all, defending the royal family and royal power, doesn't this mean that George V is eager for more royal power and status?

In other words, this is equivalent to George V announcing with great fanfare that he wants to get more royal power and consolidate the royal family and his own status before he ascended the throne.

George V's silence also made some royal families close to the UK choose to remain silent.

Although some small and medium-sized countries also have expectations for the implementation of the treaty, it is not worth offending Britain and George V for such a treaty that others can violate at will!

They are not stupid. Even if the treaty is successfully promoted in the future, it is highly likely that the powerful powers like Britain and Germany will truly protect the royal families of other small countries.

Even if other small and medium-sized countries have ideas, they can't use the whole country's strength to help other countries at the risk of their thrones being overthrown.

If they offend Britain in exchange for the formal promotion of this treaty. What if Britain doesn't help them when they really need help?

After all kinds of thinking, the royal families of these countries see it very clearly. Although the treaty to protect the royal power is indeed beneficial to them, it is more important to maintain their own position at present, so that they can get strong support from powers such as Britain and Germany.

With the support they deserve, their thrones and powers can also be consolidated to a certain extent, which is much better than a verbal treaty.

After George V was silent, Arthur looked at William II again and asked William II for his opinion.

William II actually didn't have much interest in such a treaty. After all, in William II's view, the position of the German royal family in Germany was still relatively stable.

For some countries that have surrendered to Germany, it goes without saying that William II will also protect their royal families. How could Germany protect the royal families of those forces that were close to Britain?

But after all, the initiator of this treaty was Arthur, and William II could not directly refuse it, so he gave a more compromising proposal, which was to change the protection of royal power and royal family to the protection of the personal safety of European royal family members and European monarchs.

For the bad behaviors against European royal families such as regicide and assassination of royal family members, the European royal families should jointly condemn and oppose them.

Among them, regicide was mentioned in particular. If regicide broke out in other European countries at present, the European royal families should unite to protect other royal family members of this country, and sanction the regicide and the forces they belong to, and help this country restore the monarchy and order it deserves.

At the same time, the European royal families should also provide the royal family members of other countries with the necessary protection.

What Arthur didn't expect was that the original treaty to defend the royal power had somehow become a treaty to protect the royal family.

But this was the best result at the moment, and Arthur could only nod and agree with William II's point of view.

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