In fact, Queen Victoria and Prince Albert should not be unable to find the cats under their noses, but the former is busy making babies, taking babies, and walking babies, and the latter is busy creating wonders.

And the loss of an entire Mediterranean fleet is too sensational. Never before in British history has such a tragic naval defeat occurred.

The main thing is that no one will believe this kind of thing, after all, the French Navy has always avoided fighting before, and the Austrian Navy has simply lost its reputation under the leadership of the British propaganda machine.

Fighting a war will only rely on sneak attacks and land forces, what kind of navy is this?

In fact, under the influence of Franz, the Austrian navy often fought in the most advantageous way for its own side.

However, it also gives the impression that there is no hard fight, and it is precisely this that the propaganda machines of the British and French have seized on and are desperately trying to spread rumors.

So no one in Britain believed in the destruction of the Mediterranean fleet, at most, the loss of a few ships, or the temporary loss of dominance in the Mediterranean, as in the case of historical defeats, and that's it.

At this time, the news of the British royal family was not as closed as that of later generations, and the Victorians really did not believe that this would happen.

And at this time, Britain had something that worried them even more, and the Chartists demanded that the queen make good on her promise of an eight-hour workday.

The girl who ascended to the throne at the beginning of the year did not flinch in the face of the surging crowd, she dressed in a ceremonial dress and took the scepter that symbolized the rights of the British royal family and walked onto the balcony.

Facing the rising sun and the crowd, the moment she appeared on the balcony, both the soldiers and the marching workers stared at Queen Victoria on the balcony and held their breath.

That moment gave the girl a feeling of a heavy burden on her shoulders, so she said those words easily.

"The bread will be there! Butter will be there too! Everything will be fine. Thank you for making Britain so strong, and without you, Britain would not be where it is today. I, Queen Victoria, swear that I will protect your rights, your property."

Those words had won her countless applause, made the conceited nobles cast admiring glances, and the officials no longer dared to underestimate her.

However, it is only now that Victoria has become queen that she knows how much those words weighed and what price they had to pay.

In fact, it is a very luxurious thing to improve people's livelihood, and the cost of industry, agriculture, and war will all rise.

The aristocracy is against it, the politicians are against it, the capitalists are against it, and everyone is dissatisfied. And these people can also protest, march, demonstrate, and even outright assassinate.

Victoria also struggled, but she soon discovered that she was as small as a drop of water in the face of the vast ocean called the word profit.

So Victoria began to get married, have children, and hope to live an ordinary life.

During this time, Queen Victoria met her true love, Prince Albert, and the woman who fell in love did not want to bother with those annoying political affairs.

Prince Albert, on the other hand, could not ignore the state of affairs in England at this time, having been to Ireland himself, and he had seen the deplorable situation there.

Although local officials tried their best to cover up, deliberately sending Prince Albert to farms where there was no famine, and even deliberately offering alcohol to the hired farmers on the farms.

In order to show Prince Albert a group of hopelessly lazy farmers.

When Prince Albert visited the farm, he found that the crops here were growing better than in England, and the farmers were lying drunk in the huts.

In contrast, local officials sweated under the scorching sun to accompany him to inspect the farm.

A more "considerate" prince would have been touched by the hard-working spirit of these officials, and he would have felt disdain for the lazy and drunken peasants.

However, Prince Albert is not a wine bag and rice bag who has not seen the world, and those officials who are full of brains and fat should have been covered with tendons and flesh if they worked so hard every day, instead of dragging their stomachs forward.

Moreover, the officials are hard-working, but the farmers are lazy and drunk, which is obviously not in line with his common sense.

In addition, the local officials deliberately filled Prince Albert's itinerary, which also made him notice a trace of anomalies.

However, as an excellent politician and a great aristocrat who received aristocratic education since childhood, the invisibility of joy and anger is only a basic operation.

Before a grand banquet was over, Prince Albert secretly left with his guards.

In the countryside, he saw Ireland as it really was, the land was barren and overgrown, and houses made of mud and weeds were full of cracks that could be destroyed with the slightest shaking.

At the head of the village, a woman with shriveled breasts roamed the road with her blackened baby in her arms, her eyes wandering blankly, making people feel both pitiful and strange.

The village is full of skinny men and women, almost all of whom have goldfish eyes and overly slender bodies that even ballet dancers feel.

Excrement is piled up on the streets, and swollen corpses are stenching. There were no wild dogs and vultures to dispose of the carcasses, as they had already been eaten.

Prince Albert also saw a man covered in black cloth carrying a bucket to water the corpses, a gruesome sight to watch.

However, Prince Albert still took a deep breath and walked in front of the man, and the guards around him had no choice but to follow Prince Albert.

"I'm sorry, sir. I would like to disturb you, can you inform me what you are doing? ”

"Watering." The man replied weakly.

"Why did you do that?" Prince Albert asked, puzzled.

"I want to bring them back to life." A glimmer of hope appeared on the man's lifeless face.

Prince Albert took a deep breath, he didn't know how to get the man in front of him to give up this senseless act.

"Who are they?"

The scrawny man pointed his slender fingers at the swollen, stinking corpses in turn.

"My father, my mother, my brother, my wife, my son, my daughter, my dog"

Prince Albert was silent for a long time, but he still mustered up the courage to speak.

"Sir, if you don't mind, can I give them a simple but decent funeral?"

"Ahh

A hoarse and desolate roar came from the man's throat, and he fell to his knees with a roar.

The man wanted to say something, but his body was too weak, and he was too excited just now, so he passed out.

Prince Albert fulfilled his promise and brought in a priest to give the man's family a simple but dignified funeral.

However, the god of luck did not favor the poor man, and the day after his family's funeral, the man who watered his family's corpses and tried to bring them back to life left this painful earthly world.

Prince Albert was greatly touched by this incident, but in his capacity he was unable to persuade the Government and Parliament to take substantive action against Ireland.

(End of chapter)