When the Queen of England died, it stands to reason that Prince Edward, the first heir, should succeed the King of England, but this was not until after Queen Victoria's funeral. Prince Edward proposed to bury Her Majesty in the ground as soon as possible and hold a grand funeral, but many people accused him of not simply wanting to ascend the throne as soon as possible to become the king of England.

Here in London, many MPs and cabinet members have consciously or unconsciously revealed that they want to welcome Prince Alfred back to London and hold Queen Victoria's funeral. In this way, Victoria's funeral was also deadlocked.

And the death of the Queen of England has completely silenced Britain's overseas military operations.

As the Prussian army defeated the French army and approached Paris further, Britain sensed that the rise of Prussia could not be stopped, and even the British War Minister and staff said that the most powerful army in Europe was Prussia, and even Britain today was afraid that it would not be able to defeat the Kingdom of Prussia.

Moreover, after consulting with the members of the Cabinet, British Prime Minister Gladstone felt that Britain was now in a difficult situation and was no longer fit to participate in the declaration of war against the Kingdom of Prussia, and at the same time, the British Foreign Secretary was ready to contact Bismarck, so that the two countries would cease the war and Britain would withdraw from the war against Prussia. But at this time, an unexpected news came, the British naval fleet was ambushed by the Prussian army when it went ashore to replenish and rest after capturing the port of Königsberg in East Prussia, and dozens of British naval officers and men were killed, and one of the naval lieutenants turned out to be Prince Alfred. In other words, Prince Alfred was shot by Prussian soldiers.

The news came back to London, and at this time, both the parliament and the cabinet exploded.

Prince Alfred's body was returned to the British Navy by the Prussian side, which quickly sent a clipper ship back to London. As a result, the funerals of Queen Victoria and Prince Alfred were held at the same time. Prince Edward finally got his wish and ascended the throne on the last day of his funeral as King of the Kingdom of Great Britain.

However, on the day of the funeral, rumors circulated that Prince Alfred, as a surveyor on a naval warship, was unlikely to go ashore to replenish supplies, and according to the prince's comrades-in-arms on the same ship, the prince was killed by the Prussian army when he received a letter from a relative in London to go to the port of Königsberg to purchase white geese. The rumor targeted Prince Alfred's death directly at his brother, the former Prince Edward, the newly enthroned King of Great Britain.

The king, who had already ascended the throne as Edward VII, in order to express his regret over the closeness of his younger brother Prince Alfred and his murder, directly announced to European newspapers including the Times and the Berliner Zeitung that Britain would send an army to help France maintain the continental balance of Europe, and at the same time take necessary measures to retaliate against the Prussian army for the killing of Prince Alfred.

At this moment, British Prime Minister Gladstone was dumbfounded. He was prepared to make peace with the Kingdom of Prussia, so that Britain would not be in turmoil and would not be bogged down in war. Unexpectedly, King Edward VII, who had just ascended the throne at the age of 26, had no political common sense at all, and directly announced that Britain would send an army to the European continent to attack the Kingdom of Prussia.

On the contrary, the British arms dealers and other war-related industrial capitalists and bankers were overjoyed and jumped out to support it, even saying that the MPs really proposed to send troops to the army and increase the number of marines.

At the same time, the French Empress Eugenie arrived in London, and she directly announced that she would hide 1 million pounds in her bank account in Switzerland to support the British War Office, so that Britain could send troops as soon as possible to aid the French Empire and save the French Emperor Napoleon III, and at the same time, in return, she was willing to cede all the main overseas territories of the French Empire to Britain. Edward VII met with Empress Eugenie and publicly expressed his support that he would urge the British army to send troops as soon as possible!

At this time, many of the cabinet members were invited by Empress Eugenie to a banquet and received a lot of benefits, of course, the condition was that Britain sent troops as soon as possible. The members of the cabinet had always pursued a balanced policy on the European continent, and the British side had already declared war on Prussia, but it had been reluctant to spend on military expenditures, and was unwilling to sacrifice the lives of its own soldiers, because it had always kept a wait-and-see and did not really send an army, but only sent two naval fleets to attack the Baltic Sea, and the purpose was only to seize maritime power. Nowadays, there is some military spending, albeit a small amount, but it is also a good excuse, and the most important thing is that Prussia will become a European monopoly after defeating France. Although everyone knew that the rise of Prussia was unstoppable, they did not want them to be so powerful, so the cabinet members and parliamentarians really wanted to restrain the Kingdom of Prussia from rising too much.

In this way, with the operation of some stakeholders, this resolution was actually passed.

The newly enthroned King Edward VII of England directly announced that the royal family would donate 100,000 pounds for military spending to help Great Britain's army defeat the Kingdom of Prussia.

At the urging of this reckless king, and under the operation of some well-intentioned people, the British really quickly organized a group of 70,000 troops to cross the Dover Strait and land in the small French city of Calais. At this time, Prussia's 80,000-strong army was attacking Brussels, the Kingdom of Belgium, and the British army hurriedly rushed to the rescue.

Upon learning of the entry of the British Army, the Prussian army withdrew from the siege of Brussels and retreated to the area around Luxembourg for defense. At the same time, Prussia's 100,000 troops had already captured Bethany and Lebai, approaching a distance of 50 kilometers from Paris, and Prussia had added 100,000 troops to attack France from the Franco-Prussian border, with a total of 200,000 troops preparing to capture Paris in one fell swoop and completely occupy France.

The 160,000 troops of the Northern Army organized by the French Provisional Government rushed to intercept it, but the commander made a mistake in command, and the soldiers were at a loss, and suffered a crushing defeat at Saint-Quentin. In addition, the Lyon Army in the southeast of France and the Tours Army in the center of France both expressed their disapproval of the Provisional Government of Paris and did not support Paris, but fought against the Prussian army attacking Verdun.

Half a month after Paris was bombarded by 200,000 Prussian troops, the French Provisional Government finally could not hold back and directly proposed to negotiate with Bismarck, the representative of the Prussian side, to sign an armistice and surrender agreement. The agreement stipulated that most of the forts of the fortress of Paris were handed over to the Prussian army along with artillery and ammunition, and an indemnity of 1 billion francs was paid, of course, the Lorraine and Alsace regions on the Franco-Prussian border and Luxembourg were handed over to the Kingdom of Prussia, and at the same time, after half of the reparations were paid, the Prussian army withdrew from the Paris area, and after the reparations were all paid, the Prussian army withdrew from the French border within a month.

As soon as the news broke, it immediately caused a huge sensation in Paris and throughout Europe.

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