Chapter 499: The Twenty-Fourth Grand Duke
Looking at William's confident appearance, Lena quickly calmed down, the title had returned to her home, as long as William didn't blame her for calculating the old earl, and felt that her mother was a vicious woman who alienated her, the other Lena really didn't care.
"It's best if you can understand, then let's go quickly, lest it be too rude to be late", Lena took her son's arm, and this time it took less than ten minutes to arrive at the Bucking Khan Palace.
Before he got out of the carriage, he saw Wilson, dressed in a neat dress, standing outside the main entrance waiting for him.
The carriage was steady, and William got out of the carriage and stretched out his hand to shake Wilson's hand with a smile on his face, and then helped Lena out of the carriage.
"Good morning, Lady Devonhill," Wilson greeted Lena with a smile, and Lena glared at William and curtsied.
William rolled his eyes, and his eye-rolling action was quickly captured by the camera and transmitted to the eyes of thousands of audiences.
Many viewers who are mothers were immediately moved by William's casual eye roll, while many loyal fans of the royal family were dissatisfied that William did not salute Wilson, who was higher than him.
In their hearts, William is already an earl, even if he doesn't bow, then he has to nod his head.
What made them even more unbearable was that William actually stretched out his hand before Wilson, and Wilson held William's hand not at all unhappy.
It was as if William's Archduke of Cambridge and Wilson were the Earl of Oxford.
However, the thoughts of these people did not affect William, and to hell with those who wanted him to salute Wilson, and even if he could really raise his title to the rank of duke, if Philip made him kneel, he would definitely give up the dukedom.
However, to William's chagrin, his eye-rolling expression became an online meme before the next day, and many people will use this expression that he wants to delete immediately to ridicule others in the future.
Seeing Lena curtsy him, Wilson smiled and reached out to shake Lena's hand, and then immediately picked up Lena and whispered something in her ear, which made Lena laugh and pat his arm while laughing.
This made people in front of the TV wonder what Wilson said to make Lena so happy, and the way he patted his arm seemed to be comforting.
It's a pity that Lena and Wilson are facing away from the camera when they talk, even if they want to interpret it with their lips, they can't do it, but when they see William scratching his eyebrows helplessly with his fingers in the follow-up, everyone guesses that it must be related to William, maybe Wilson is telling Lena about William.
"Let's go, Mom, don't be deceived by this kid", William looked at Wilson helplessly, you bastard actually told Lena that he wanted Lena to protect him, and spread rumors that William would definitely trouble him afterwards today.
"William, you can't bully Wilson, he's two years younger than you, you have to let him do it."
Hell, let him order, rolled his eyes, and his mother and Wilson, who were talking and laughing, approached the main entrance first, and led them into the medal hall by the old butler he had seen a few days ago.
To William's surprise, except for the 2-meter passage left in the middle, the entire hall was almost full.
When everyone saw William come in, they all took the initiative to applaud him, and two knights wearing standard knight uniforms and sabers walked up to William and saluted, and stretched out their hands to him and made a gesture of invitation.
He followed the two knights, looked around, and soon saw that most of the crowd were the people he had saved in Westminster Abbey the other day.
When I walked to the front row, I also saw France's Kellner-Beckon and Germany's Agnes Captain, and even the German Archduke, who was rumored to be in very poor health.
After nodding to the smiling trio, William stood in front of Philip, with a cushion with small armrests at his feet without looking.
The role of the mat and the small armrestWilliam of course knew that the mat was for the nobles to kneel, and the small armrest on the right side of the mat was to allow the kneeling person to hold on to the armrest, so that he could balance when kneeling straight, so as to prevent the king from shaking his body and being cut by the sword when he took the knight's sword and slapped it twice on the shoulders of the nobleman.
"Well, even if you don't want to do it according to tradition, at least you have to keep it low, I'm not as tall as you, Earl Devon Hill," Philip laughed.
The appearance of this mat made William a little puzzled, he only inherited the title of Earl of Oxford today, and he was not a new knighthood, not only did he not have to slap two swords on his shoulder, let alone move the kneeling mat over.
Bow William can accept, after all, this kind of salute is very common in modern times, he took half a step back and only bent his waist about 30 degrees,
Many people wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.
If someone doesn't mind, someone must mind, and not standing up is just because it's inconvenient to question it on this occasion.
Looking at William, who was bent over, Philip hesitated for a moment.
But when I saw the immature face in front of me, I remembered that this child not only stood in front of him to save himself, but also earned a value of 30 billion US dollars in the grade less than 20 years old.
The scruples in Philip's heart were quickly relaxed, and the benefits to the nobles of winning over William were far greater than the false courtesy of kneeling to him.
I silently thought in my heart that the difficulties faced by the royal family were no longer a question of whether to kneel or not, but whether they could survive for a long time
Now that William, a super money-making person, has joined, people all over the world will have to re-examine the English aristocracy from today onwards.
Thinking of this, Philip turned around and picked up the knight's sword from the tray held by the attendant behind him, and solemnly patted William on the shoulder twice,
"William Devon Hill, I formally confer upon you the title of Grand Duke of Oxford, on the recommendation of the new first Richard and all the members of the Cabinet, William Devon Hill,"
"What?" William was shocked, and couldn't help but raise his eyelids to look at Philip with a solemn face, without waiting for him to think about it,
Philip continued, "In recognition of your outstanding contribution to the UK and to the world of capital twelve days ago, you are the most trusted and beloved partner of all people in England from this day forward".
Putting down the sword in his hand, Philip looked at everyone in the hall and asked, "Do you have any objections to this?"
No one spoke, and Philip said with satisfaction, "Well, William Devonhill, congratulations on becoming the twenty-fourth hereditary Grand Duke of the British Isles."
With that, Philip picked up the archduke's round hat from the tray held by an archbishop and put it on William's head with his own hands.
The real title of Grand Duke smashed on his head, which made William, who was unprepared, a little blind, and waited for Philip to pat him on the shoulder, he reacted, and bent down in a daze,
Fortunately, seeing the cushion used to kneel under his nose, William came to his senses after being smashed and blindfolded, and his slightly bent legs immediately stood up straight.
Philip, who was watching, and those behind him who could see his movements, all chuckled under their breath.
"You are very lucky, child", Philip patted William on the shoulder, "If it weren't for the fact that most of the people in this hall were saved by you, even if you had the support of the leaders of other countries, it would be impossible for you to become the Grand Duke,
Luckily, the new British first Richard, nominated me to grant you the title of hereditary Grand Duke, otherwise you would not have been able to become an Archduke even if I and everyone here agreed, so, child, you would not really be an illegitimate child of God."
"Hehe", William spread his hands, "this can only go and ask the one in heaven".
"Well, I'll probably have to wait a long time to find out about that," Philip laughed, "Richard asked me to tell you that he and you are both clear."