Time is like fine sand, the tighter you hold it in your hand, the faster it passes.

In the blink of an eye, Christmas 1934 had passed, and the time had come to 1935.

The new year is not good news for Arthur, as Princess Louis's health is getting worse and worse, and she is no longer even able to stand up on her own.

Even though the doctors did a detailed examination, they still couldn't detect any problems. The only conclusion they came to was that Princess Louis had problems because of the aging of her body organs, not because of disease.

Arthur couldn't do anything about it, because there was no good way to solve this natural aging even in the afterlife.

The officials could feel that Arthur had not been in a good mood since the report meeting at the beginning of the year.

Arthur didn't bother to tell the officials why, and the officials who knew about it wouldn't make a big deal about it.

This also led to the fact that during the period from January to February, when the officials saw Arthur, they were all submissive, for fear that Arthur's anger for unknown reasons would implicate them.

Arthur was not in the mood to trouble them, because by February, Princess Louis was bedridden and her body was in its final stages.

Arthur sat in front of Princess Louis's bed, his face complicated and reluctant.

Princess Louise looked at Arthur with a smile, smiled and grabbed Arthur's hand, and then looked at Queen Mary, Princess Anna, Peter, George and Prince William, as well as Princess Anna's newlywed husband, Prince Juan, and said to Arthur with a smile: "Arthur, I'm going to see your father." ”

"Mother..." When Arthur heard this, the reluctance on his face became even heavier, and his hands couldn't help but clench.

"It's okay, kid, you're doing well. If I could meet your father and grandmother, I would tell them that Arthur was the greatest monarch of Australasia and the pride of the entire royal family. Princess Louise patted Arthur's hands lightly, the smile on her face did not diminish, and she looked at Queen Mary and Arthur's children again: "

Mary, children, even though I am gone, my love for you will always be there. May the Lord bless you, my dearest children. ”

Arthur's hand suddenly lost its strength. Arthur was stunned, gently put Princess Louis's hand back on the bed, covered it with the quilt, and glanced at Princess Louis gently, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and there was no regret.

"Mother." Arthur shouted softly, but there was no response.

"Mother!" "Grandmother!" Queen Mary and the princesses also shouted, again without any response.

The paramedics stepped forward, examined it lightly, and shook his head gently at Arthur.

The elder of the Australasian royal family, Princess Louise, Arthur's gracious mother, died.

The news instantly became the biggest news in Australasia, making it to all the newspapers and spreading throughout the empire at breakneck speed.

Because of Arthur, the people also have a good impression of Arthur's mother, Princess Louis.

After the establishment of the Empire, the Australasian people called Arthur the Father of Australasia to commemorate Arthur's exploits from the time of the Principality of Australia to the establishment of the Australasian Empire.

And Arthur's mother, Princess Louis, is also known as the grandmother of the empire, which is enough to see the people's love for the emperor's mother.

Princess Louis has always been kind and kind, and has been unanimously praised by the public. The sudden loss of the grandmother of the empire was a source of grief for most Australasian people.

The officials finally knew the reason why Arthur was in a bad mood some time ago, and for the upcoming funeral of Princess Louis, the officials paid more attention to it and did not dare to slack off.

From February 17, 1935, when it was confirmed that Princess Louis was dead, all places in the Australasian Empire where the national flag was erected were flown at half-mast as a sign of respect.

The palace resounded with mournful music, and all the members of the royal family accompanied Princess Louis on her last journey with sadness.

Looking at Princess Louis, who had stopped moving, Arthur felt hesitation for the first time. But after looking at Queen Mary and a few little ones beside him, Arthur strengthened his conviction again.

There are many things to determine for a funeral, such as the time of burial, and the place of burial.

Regarding the place of burial, Arthur had originally planned to bury Princess Louis in the royal mausoleum at the Palais des Nations. But Princess Louis asks Arthur at the last moment that she wants to return to Sydney and rest in the underground of the Sydney Palace.

As for the reason, Sydney was the first stop for Princess Louis and Arthur in Australia, and Princess Louis lived in Sydney for a long time.

Secondly, there are not only 1-to-1 replicas of the former Arthur family's house in England, but also many relics of Arthur's father, the old Duke of Arthur.

Without much thought, Arthur decided to follow Princess Louise's wishes and bury her in the Sydney Cemetery at Sydney Palace.

As a former royal palace, there is a prepared cemetery in Sydney Palace. However, during the time that Sydney Palace served as a royal palace, no royal family members died, and the Sydney cemetery did not play a role.

After the relocation of the royal palace to Fort St. Arthur, the Sydney cemetery became even more useless. In order to fulfill Princess Louis's last wish, the Australasian government temporarily organized personnel to repair the Sydney cemetery, and made certain improvements to complete it before the funeral.

On February 22, 1935, Princess Louise's funeral was officially held.

Although she was only the queen mother of the empire, the Australasian Empire took it very seriously.

What Arthur didn't expect was that Princess Louise was on the way from Fort St. Arthur to Sydney's burial, where millions of Australasian people gathered on the way.

It was clear that they all wanted to take one last look at the imperial grandmother. If there was no Princess Louis, there would be no Arthur, and there would be no Australasian Empire, which is now huge and prosperous.

Because of the Spanish Civil War, Arthur did not invite the royal family of Europe in a big way. But most of the European royal families were still very face-saving, and they arrived in time for the funeral on February 22.

This is also thanks to the technology that Australasia once sold transport aircraft, otherwise, the speed and range of some countries' aircraft would not be able to support round-the-world voyages, and they would not have been able to reach Australasia in a few days.

The specifications of the funeral are still very high. Arthur personally carried Princess Louise's coffin, accompanied by a number of European royals on horseback.

In addition to the status of Arthur and Australasia, a large part of the reason is the noble status of Princess Louis herself.

Princess Louis is from the Prussian royal family, she is the daughter of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia, the great-granddaughter of King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia, and the cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.

This also shows the confusion in the relationship between the European royal families. Judging from the relationship between Arthur's father, the old Duke Arthur, William II is Arthur's cousin, and the blood relationship is still relatively close.

But if you look at the relationship between Arthur's mother, Princess Louis, Arthur is the cousin of Wilhelm II, but the relationship is far, far away.

In terms of bloodline, it must be based on Arthur's father, the old Duke Arthur. In addition to the closer blood relationship, the importance of male blood in Europe is also an important reason.

As a member of the royal family of Prussia, Princess Louis is also the daughter-in-law of the famous Queen Victoria, and her status is naturally the most noble group of European royal families.

In addition, Arthur's status in the European royal family is already very high, and he is also the emperor of Australasia, the third power, and he has been full in terms of status.

As a result, the funeral was attended by too many European royal families, and in terms of scale alone, it was not much smaller than the funeral of King Edward VII of England.

If only the number of people participated, Princess Louis's funeral was even better. After all, Arthur's reputation in Australasia is too high, and a small thing may affect millions of Australasian people.

The person in charge of the funeral was still Archbishop Stede of Australasia.

Over the past 30 years, Archbishop Stede has thoroughly understood his duty, which is to be unconditionally loyal to Arthur.

This resulted in Australasian Protestantism differing from English Protestantism, which was completely controlled by the monarch.

The biggest impact is that the language schools established by the church will continue to teach immigrants the patriotic ideas of the Chinese army.

And the highest dogma of Australasian Protestantism is to fight for God and Arthur.

Coupled with Arthur's high personal prestige, as well as the involuntary personality cult of Arthur by the government and the people, Arthur's status has reached the point of being comparable to God.

It's no joke. The accumulation of various events turned Arthur into a legendary figure of majesty and inviolability in Australasia.

The advantage of this is that all of Arthur's shortcomings will be hidden, and Arthur himself will be deified by these fanatical populaces.

But there are also shortcomings, that is, any small action of Arthur may be misinterpreted by the officials and people below.

Some of the laws that are enacted now that affect the development of the country will be infinitely more difficult to repeal in the future.

This is also Arthur's headache. While the cult of personality favored Arthur's rule over the country as a whole, it was not conducive to the rule of later monarchs over the country.

However, before the end of World War II, a proper cult of personality will effectively increase the combat effectiveness of the army, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

Under the influence of Arthur's various means, the loyalty of the Australasian army to Arthur was definitely much higher than that of the people.

At first there were military instructors, and then there were military priests. They have only one job, and that is to ensure the ideological education of the army.

There is only one thing they convey to the soldiers, and that is to be loyal to the monarch and patriotism. Loyalty comes first, patriotism comes last.

It is precisely because of this cult of personality that the Australasian army can also burst out with a spirit of fearlessness, knowing that they will die, they can still launch a final attack on the enemy without dying.

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