Chapter 43: Princess Anne
"General Henry, you look so young!"
"Thank you, but I'm retired now, not a general."
"I believe that if you want to, you will definitely return to the army."
"Thank you for the compliment~"
Before Henry's banquet began, a large group of people from embassies from various countries came to greet him.
The main thing is that Bradley Sr. is too famous, and Henry himself became famous after the Manhattan Project was declassified, although not as famous as his father.
Fortunately, the United States is now very strong, and the Soviet atomic bomb has been successfully detonated, otherwise the Soviet Red House would have annoyed Henry.
Now the other countries don't want to use all means to get Henry's help and then go to nuclear weapons.
"Who is that person, the young and handsome one, so many people come forward to chat with him?"
"You don't know, so how did you get in to this banquet?"
"My boss can't come today, so let me replace him and make more friends."
"If you can make friends with him and build a deep friendship, believe me, you and your boss will be promoted."
"So exaggerated?"
"Yes, everyone here wants to make friends with him, especially the Englishman who came here for a visit."
"Well, I'll do my best, I already know it's going to be hard."
Henry declined some of the friendships, and the others were either not strong enough to bother, or it was inconvenient.
Although there are high-ranking Italian officials here, as a *** capitulated country, even if they have ideas, they dare not touch the sensitive nerves of other Western countries.
"Gentlemen, please get ready, Her Royal Highness Princess Anne has arrived."
The people in the antechamber lowered their voices talking to each other and prepared to enter the hall.
"It's still like that, the etiquette is forceful, but the people of the British royal family, will they feel uncomfortable coming to this country that has just abolished the constitutional monarchy?"
After several high-ranking officials and nobles in Italy and ambassadors from various countries entered, it was Henry's turn, and the suit Henry wore was not unusual here.
After all, Marlena has been out for several years after designing, and except for some old-school politicians, business and political circles have embraced this style.
"General Henry, please come with me."
"Okay"
Henry followed the royal entourage, walked through the antechamber, and entered the luxuriously decorated, red-carpeted hall on the ground, white European style, beautiful crystal lamps, making the hall look very bright.
Henry glanced at it casually and noticed the pretty figure in a pink princess dress and a diamond-encrusted headdress.
"It turned out to be her, it was decided, it can't be left to the British, or leave it to me, this goblin can't leave her outside to harm people" Henry made up his mind at the first sight of it.
Henry stepped forward smoothly and pretended to kiss the back of Princess Anne's right hand, then straightened up, the closer he looked, the more satisfied he became, Henry smiled slightly and stepped aside.
After meeting with all the dignitaries, the banquet officially began, and Princess Anne sat down in her place, and the music in the hall sounded.
As soon as Henry looked down, he saw that Princess Anne's high heels had fallen off, and she had not put them on, and one foot was still groping around the edge of the skirt, and the attendant next to the princess also noticed it, and tried to cover it up in the exchange of ears.
Henry stepped out of the guests and walked towards Princess Anne, now it was time to get out of his horse, and when he reached the small steps, he gently kicked his heels into the hem of his skirt, and looked up at Princess Anne and smiled.
Princess Anne felt her high heels enter the hem of her skirt from the impact of her feet, hurriedly straightened her shoes, put her feet in and put them on, and the whole person relaxed, and smiled sincerely at Henry.
"Your Highness Anne, did I have the pleasure of inviting you to dance?"
"Of course there is no problem," Princess Anne smiled and agreed.
Henry bent down slightly, stretched out his right hand, and waited for Princess Anne to put it in her palm.
He led Princess Anne to the center of the hall and danced to the music.
"Thank you just now, General Henry"
"You can call me Henry, it's my honor to be able to help you out, I can't imagine you can remember me"
"You can call me Annie now, because it's only two of us my age here, and we're impressed."
"I'm glad to hear your praise, but I'm thirty years old, and I've been in London for more than half a year, so why haven't I heard of you?"
"You look so young, I was studying at Windsor Castle and only my father was in London."
"I see, do you want to take a break, I heard that after you went abroad, you participated in activities for a week in a row?"
"Yes, but I guess it's not time to rest yet." Princess Anne looked at the guests around her and replied with a helpless expression.
Henry let go of Princess Anne's hand, and when Princess Anne took the hand, Henry withdrew from the dance floor and went to the balcony to blow the wind and taste the wine.
"General Henry, won't you be bored drinking here alone?"
Henry turned his head to see that it was the military general of the British Embassy, an old white man in his 50s, wearing a military uniform.
"I liked it more here, it was quiet enough, but now it's different, here you are"
"But there is still half an hour left at the banquet, I can't let you stay here alone and bored, this is not our British hospitality, I believe that the Prime Minister knows about it, and he will definitely ask me to hold me accountable."
"I didn't think I could alarm the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and I didn't know that the Prime Minister would think so highly of me."
"The Prime Minister wants to invite General Henry to London, and this time Princess Anne came to Rome, and he specially asked the ambassador to invite the general to the welcome banquet, and also asked me to send an invitation to the general."
"Is that so? Then ask the Prime Minister to send me a formal invitation, what do you think? ”
"It's just a private invitation, the general is too worried," General Wubei quickly explained.
Britain is still an ally of the United States, so if it can issue an official document and poach people openly in front of the United States, isn't that a slap in the face?
Throughout the banquet, the military generals of the British Embassy were knocking on the side of the temptation, it seems that Britain also wants to have its own nuclear weapons, considering that Britain completed its own atomic bomb test in 1953, it is not strange.
At that time, the Korean War had only just ended, so it is conceivable that Britain has been researching nuclear weapons for a long time, and the progress is not very smooth.
When the banquet was officially over, the British ambassador to Italy stayed with Henry for another half an hour and offered various conditions.
How could Henry agree, he didn't trust Henry in the United States, and he didn't have a big explosion of the technology he mastered, how could he make Henry nod his head, and now they have something to ask for.
Leaving the embassy, Henry walked to his car, ready to leave first.
"Huh? Now I'm going over the wall, my movements are quite numb, my body is light and healthy, and I'll wait to catch up and hug the beauty, and it will be a riposte to the UK. ”