Chapter 5: The Crown Prince's Gift

In fact, it is not the British Empire, and even for the royal families of most European monarchies, Queen Victoria is the benchmark for monarchies.

Queen Victoria, known as the grandmother of Europe, is not called in vain, the royal families of many countries have a close blood relationship with Queen Victoria, and even the German Emperor Wilhelm II, one of the great powers, is also the grandson of Queen Victoria.

Historically, Queen Victoria was surrounded by many of her descendants when she died on the Isle of Wight, including Crown Prince Edward and Kaiser Wilhelm II.

As Kaiser Wilhelm II, she can always be by Queen Victoria's side, which shows how high Queen Victoria's status is for the major royal families in Europe.

Unsurprisingly, Queen Victoria's idea was opposed by the vast majority. No one wants Queen Victoria, who is in her 80s, to travel just over 10,000 kilometres to the Isle of Wight.

Even if many people understand that Queen Victoria misses her deceased relatives, neither the British Empire nor the European royal families can accept the blow of losing Queen Victoria.

However, Queen Victoria, who has made up her mind, has no one to stop her, not even Prime Minister Robert and Crown Prince Edward.

The only good thing is that Queen Victoria did not decide to leave immediately, but waited until Arthur had taken care of everything and then traveled to Australia with Arthur.

Although Duke Asse was assassinated at a young age, he left Arthur with a great deal of wealth and fortune.

Leaving aside the two dukedoms and one countdom that have been exchanged for Australia, the castles and two military factories, a steel mill and a shipyard that originally belonged to Duke Arthur alone are worth at least hundreds of millions of pounds.

Duke Arthur also left behind a large number of shares in industrial and other industrial factories or companies, valued at least tens of millions of pounds.

Now that Arthur is going to Australia, most of these properties will have to be relocated or fully realized in order to play the most role.

For Arthur, all the shares in his hands need to be realized. While these shares may be able to appreciate in value for some time to come, Arthur, who is about to go to Australia, obviously does not have much time to wait for these stocks to appreciate.

It is better to cash it all into pounds and contribute to Australia's development.

And those shipyards, steel mills and military factories, if possible, it would be better to relocate to Australia in their entirety.

These factories are very scarce factories in Australia, not only to fill the long-standing industrial gap in Australia, but also to accelerate the development of industry and technology in Australia.

As for the castles left behind by Duke Arthur, Arthur would not return to the British Empire if nothing else, so there was no need to keep them.

All of these castles are more than 100 years old, and they all cover a very large area, with excellent infrastructure, gardens, restaurants, and a large number of precious works of art.

These castles alone may have been worth more than £60 million, a quarter of the British Empire's total revenue in a year.

The good news is that Butler Hunter was in charge of Duke Arthur's property before, so he is very familiar with all of Duke Arthur's property.

After learning that Arthur planned to sell all his property and go to Australia, Hunter's housekeeper did not object, but silently helped Arthur sell the property that he had run by himself.

Perhaps because the British Empire is now thriving and its developed economy has created many wealthy people, the sale of Duke Arthur's property was quite smooth, and it only took a month for most of the stocks and castles to be sold.

The castle, in particular, was very popular with the nobles, and not only was it all sold, but it also brought Arthur a total of 70 million pounds.

Combined with the proceeds from the sale of shares, Arthur now has a terrifying £87 million in cash.

March 3, Buckingham Palace.

It was Arthur's last day in the British Empire, and the day before Queen Victoria decided to travel.

It was a busy day for the British government, not only to deal with day-to-day government affairs, but also to re-determine Queen Victoria's preparations for tomorrow's trip.

As the queen of the British Empire, Queen Victoria's honor guard specifications for travel cannot be low.

On this trip, Queen Victoria will not only bring a royal guard of up to 2,000 men, but also a fleet of two battleships and five cruisers.

He was accompanied by members of the royal family including Princess Beatrice, Arthur, Princess Louis, Margaery and Patricia, as well as Harvey, the housekeeper of the royal palace, and Jon, the deputy prime minister.

In order to take care of Queen Victoria's food and daily life, the trip also brought twelve additional servants, three maids, five cooks and two pastry chefs.

After making all the final preparations, Queen Victoria also began to say her final goodbyes to government officials and Crown Prince Edward.

The farewell between Crown Prince Edward and Queen Victoria was stiff, perhaps because both men had their own agendas.

But after all, his wish was achieved, and Crown Prince Edward also seemed very relaxed and happy at this time, and smiled and told Arthur next to Queen Victoria: "Arthur, after going to your own territory, remember not to act recklessly." Your people are the foundation of the territory, and a popular ruler can rule a country for a long time. Learn more from your grandmother and strive to be a competent ruler. ”

"Yes, uncle." Although he didn't understand why Crown Prince Edward seemed to be a little active, Arthur only took it as his uncle's advice when he was about to leave.

"Edward, Arthur is leaving, don't you have any indication as an uncle?" Suddenly, Queen Victoria, who had been silent on the side, suddenly spoke, staring at Edward with a slightly deep gaze.

"Oh shit, how did I forget something so important?" Crown Prince Edward immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and then hurriedly said: "Arthur, I promised you a gift when you left the territory, and now it's time to honor it." I heard that you were selling all your possessions some time ago, and I don't have much to help you with. So be it, I'll give you £20,000,000,000 in my personal name, and then I'll have the Bank of London lend you £30,000,000,000 without interest. This is a belated birthday present for you, and there is no way to have a happy birthday with you under special circumstances before, but I still want to say that I wish you a happy seventeenth birthday. ”