Explosions were everywhere in the city of London, King Charles Street, Whitehall Street, Downing Street, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Burlington Market Street, and of course outside Buckingham Palace – a bomb-laden American military jeep exploded in the square outside Buckingham Palace, causing great chaos. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

At the time of the explosion, Princess Elizabeth was having lunch with her fiancé, Prince Friedrich, her uncle, the Duke of Windsor, and Mrs. Simpson, the wife of the Duke of Windsor, to discuss the armistice and the accession of the eldest Princess Elizabeth to the throne - there were still many formalities to be done for the Duke to become Queen.

It's a bit complicated in the UK, unlike in China, as long as the officers of the Royal Guard take a yellow robe and put it on Elizabeth, and then shout long live, she will be Queen Elizabeth II immediately...... It's definitely not legal!

And the legal formalities, of course, have to go through the parliament! In addition to the famous Bill of Rights, the United Kingdom also has a Succession to the Throne Act, which is also a tightening spell on the head of the king or queen. Without this law, Prime Minister Baldwin would not have been able to turn Edward VIII into the Duke of Windsor.

According to the Law on Succession to the Throne, the succession to the throne is decided by the Parliament, not by the monarch himself! Moreover, the English Parliament has deposed kings twice in history - one for Edward II and the other for Charles I. According to the practice of these two impeachments of the king, Parliament could remove the king through a letter of reprimand or a letter of protest.

But Princess Elizabeth didn't want to make it so ugly, and wanted a milder reason to strip her father of the crown.

Prince Friedrich put forward a proposal to "urge the king to return home", which could be passed by parliament and a "letter urging the king to return home", and if George VI refused, he could be removed from the country in a grand manner.

Just when the Duke of Windsor and Princess Elizabeth thought the steps were good, a car bomb exploded a few kilometers outside Buckingham Palace.

"What's going on?" Prince Friedrich brought in an officer of the Royal Guard.

"Sir, someone has planted a bomb in James Park (the garden outside Buckingham Palace)!"

"Do you know who it is?"

"I don't know, but there are many other explosions in the city!"

"What? Explosions in many places? Prince Friedrich suddenly became alarmed.

Now is the critical moment for him to be able to get both the country and the beauty! And for some ill-intentioned people, now is also a critical moment for them to make trouble and rebel!

"Sir," reported to Prince Friedrich, just when he did not know what to do, "the people of the Eastern Side were in trouble again, with more than 100,000 people taking to the streets and plaguing signs that 'Churchill's government is out of office immediately' and 'Immediately cease hostilities.'" ”

"Hasn't Churchill already resigned?" Princess Elizabeth also raised her eyebrows when she heard Prince Friedrich's report, "He is already the caretaker prime minister...... He is stepping down, who will preside over the government? ”

"Or let Foreign Secretary Aiden act as his deputy?" The Duke of Windsor didn't seem to understand what was going on, and made a suggestion to let Aiden act as his agent.

"Duke, they don't want Churchill to step down, but they want Churchill's government to step down!" Prince Friedrich reminded with a frown.

"But there's no way to form a new government right now." The Duke of Windsor looked helpless.

"Why not?" Prince Friedrich had only been an Englishman for a long time, and his legal awareness was still relatively weak. "Wouldn't it be better for the princess to directly appoint Attlee to organize a provisional cabinet?"

"It's not legal!" The Duke of Windsor looked at Friedrich from Germany and said: Your wife is not the queen yet, how can you appoint a cabinet prime minister? And the British monarch has not appointed a prime minister for a long, long time. If it is now appointed by a princess who has not yet been crowned, I am afraid that it will cause new strife.

"And Attlee wouldn't necessarily accept such an appointment." The Duke of Windsor went on to say, "for this appointment will greatly enhance the authority of the sovereign......"

The British monarch is a rubber stamp, and if a regent princess can appoint a commoner (because Parliament was dissolved, Attlee is not a member of parliament) as prime minister, this authority is really increased! If Attlee had accepted the appointment and relied on the royal guard, loyal to the royal family, to quell the rebellion, would the council be the biggest or the king the greatest?

"Then send out the royal guards to suppress it!" Prince Friedrich gritted his teeth and made another suggestion to increase the prestige of the royal family.

"This won't work......" the Duke of Windsor shook his head repeatedly, "do you want Elizabeth to become a monarch like Bloody Mary?" ”

Bloody Mary was Queen Mary I of England, and during her reign she was a powerful queen who was unpopular with the English people for her bloody repression of Protestant forces and political opponents.

"What's so bad about being Mary I?" Prince Friedrich asked rhetorically. "Wasn't the Tudor a golden age?"

yes, what's so bad about being Mary I? At least he won't be ousted because of marital problems! The Tudor dynasty, to which Mary I belonged, was the golden age of the English monarchy, when there was neither the Bill of Rights nor the Act of Succession, the army was the instrument of the king, the parliament was only responsible for giving advice, the ministers were the king's servants, and the people did not dare to take to the streets to protest if there was nothing to do.

The Duke of Windsor and Princess Elizabeth looked at each other, neither of them knowing how to answer Friedrich's question. At that moment, another officer of the Royal Guard rushed in to report to Prince Friedrich.

"Sir, the marching crowd is storming Whitehall Street and fighting with the men of the London County Division!"

"Storming Whitehall Street? Still fighting? Friedrich frowned, "What's the fight?" ”

"I don't know," the officer shook his head, "but the gunfire coming from the direction of Whitehall Street is very intense!" ”

"What?" Prince Friedrich's face changed, and he hurriedly walked to a closed window, opened the curtains, and then pushed open a large glass window with a bronze frame, and the cold wind poured into the somewhat stuffy conference room, and everyone shivered, and then heard the crackling of gunshots and the sound of loud slogans.

"Peace is coming soon!"

"Down with Churchill!"

"Down with the House of Windsor!"

"Long live the Republic of England!"

The cries of the people and the sound of gunfire reached the bunker where Churchill was, and it was like a burst of noise. It is clear that the number of people besieging Whitehall Street, King Charles Street and Downing Street is rapidly increasing.

The bunker was also noisy, with telephones ringing one after another, and secretaries, staff officers, or other officials of higher rank were like ants on a hot pot, either shouting with the phone or scurrying around. Only the British Prime Minister, the desperate Winston. Churchill Ann sat in his office, lit a cigar, smoked slowly, and seemed to care nothing more.

Churchill's personal secretary, John Churchill. Martin pushed the door in a panic and ran in, "Mr. Prime Minister, the phone still can't get through, and the people who sent out to contact him haven't come back......"

The phone line has been cut! The Bolshevik Party and the Third International had been operating in London for many years, and there was still some base. The explosion on King Charles Street was the signal, and at the same time as the explosion sounded, internationalist fighters cut the telephone line.

At the same time, the Bolshevik death squads, disguised as British officers and soldiers, raided the headquarters of the Conservative, Labour, Liberal, and Fascist coalitions and the homes of the bigwigs of these parties.

Such a thing would not have happened before the last protests in London, when the city was under tight control. But after the protests in London, the prestige of the wartime cabinet was discredited, and the morale of the people in London began to fluctuate, and the workers of the East End could form an armed force in a grand manner. Moreover, when the US troops withdrew, a considerable part of the weapons and food were handed over to the Bolshevik-controlled trade unions, and the US embassy gave several million dollars in funds for the rebellion. Taken together, these factors cause the situation to spiral out of control.

Churchill was not ignorant of this, but he made the same mistake as Kerensky in 1917 and wanted to increase his prestige with a victory. However, the British army did not bring him victory......

"What about Buckingham Palace?" Churchill asked lightly, "They shouted the slogan of bringing down the Windsor dynasty, and they should also send people to attack there, right?" ”

"Prime Minister, Buckingham Palace will be fine, there are 12,000 Royal Guard soldiers stationed there."

"But they still pointed the finger at Buckingham Palace, why is that?" Churchill did not wait for his secretary to answer the question, but went on to say, "Didn't Stalin know that the British royal family had a tradition of not interfering in politics?" Didn't he know that the royal family had a royal guard in their hands? Why did he allow the Bolsheviks in London to point the finger of the struggle at the Windsor dynasty in the first place? I think...... He simply did not think that the Bolsheviks in London would succeed! All he wants is a Britain that has lost its political foundation and democratic system and is completely headed for chaos and turmoil, and that's what he wants! ”

"Mr. Prime Minister," said John. Where did Martin have the heart to listen to Churchill's nonsense, listening to the sound of gunfire outside, he hurriedly said loudly, "I can't hold it anymore, the rebels are so fierce and outnumbered that the soldiers of the London County Division can't resist it at all...... You must get out of here! ”

Churchill smiled bitterly and said, "No, I'm not leaving, I'm not going anywhere, except hell!" As he spoke, he took out his pistol from the drawer, "John, you go by yourself, if you can enter Buckingham Palace, please tell Her Royal Highness the princess for me, if someone has to have the blood of the people on his hands, I hope that person is her!" ”

After explaining his last words, the prime minister of the British Empire waved his hand and sent John away. Martin left, alone in his office, waiting for the end to come...... (To be continued.) )