The Rise of the Third Reich

Explosions were happening all over London, on King Charles Street, Whitehall Street, Downing Street, Regent Street, Oxford Street, Burlington Market Street, and of course outside Buckingham Palace - a US military jeep loaded with bombs was seen outside Buckingham Palace. There was an explosion in the square, causing great chaos.

When the explosion sounded, Princess Elizabeth was having lunch with her fiancé Prince Friedrich, her uncle the Duke of Windsor, and the Duke of Windsor's wife Mrs. Simpson. They discussed the armistice and Princess Elizabeth's accession to the throne - the princess wanted to become the queen. There are still many procedures to be completed.

This matter is a bit complicated in the UK, unlike in China, where the officers of the Royal Guard just put a yellow robe on Elizabeth, and then she shouted long live, she would immediately be Queen Elizabeth II... This is definitely illegal!

As for the legal procedures, of course it has to go through the parliament! In addition to the famous "Bill of Rights", the UK also has the "Act of Succession to the Throne", which is also a tight curse 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 provisions of the Succession to the Throne Act, the succession to the throne is decided by Parliament, not the monarch himself! Moreover, in history, the British Parliament deposed kings twice - one was Edward II and the other was Charles I. According to the practice of impeachment of the king during these two times, Congress can remove the king through the "Rebuke of the King" or the "Great Protest".

However, Princess Elizabeth did not want to make it so ugly and hoped to have a milder reason to deprive her father of the crown.

Prince Friedrich put forward a proposal to "urge the king to return to the country". The parliament can pass a "letter urging the king to return to the country". As long as George VI refuses, he can be removed openly.

Just when the Duke of Windsor and Princess Elizabeth thought this step was good, a car bomb exploded thousands of meters outside Buckingham Palace.

"What's going on?" Prince Friedrich called for 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 were explosions in many places in London!"

"What? Many places exploded?" Prince Friedrich suddenly became alert.

Now is the critical moment for whether he can win both the kingdom and the beauty! And for some people with ulterior motives, now is also a critical moment for them to cause trouble and rebellion!

"Sir," just when Prince Friedrich didn't know what to do, another Royal Guards officer reported to him, "The people in the East District are rioting again. Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets and fought. 'Churchill's Government Stands Down Now' and 'Armistice Now' Slogans."

"Hasn't Churchill already resigned?" Princess Elizabeth frowned when she heard Prince Friedrich's report. "He is already the caretaker Prime Minister... If he steps down, who will preside over the government?"

"Or let Foreign Secretary Eden act as an agent?" The Duke of Windsor seemed not to understand what was going on and suggested that Eden act as an agent.

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

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

"Why not?" After all, Prince Friedrich had only been an Englishman for a short time, and his legal awareness was still relatively weak. "Isn't it enough for the princess to directly appoint Attlee to organize the interim cabinet?"

"This is illegal!" The Duke of Windsor glanced at Friedrich from Germany and said to himself: Your wife is not the queen yet, how can you appoint a cabinet prime minister? And it has been a long, long time since the British monarch appointed a prime minister. If it is now appointed by a princess who has not yet been crowned, I am afraid it will cause new disputes.

"And Attlee may not necessarily accept such an appointment." The Duke of Windsor continued, "Because this appointment will greatly enhance the monarch's authority..."

The British monarch is a rubber stamp. If a princess regent can appoint a commoner (because Parliament has been dissolved, Attlee is not a member now) to be the prime minister, this authority has really increased! If Attlee accepts the appointment and still relies on the royal guards loyal to the royal family to quell the rebellion, then who will be the largest in the future, the Parliament or the King?

"Then send out the Royal Guards to suppress it!" Prince Friedrich gritted his teeth and made another suggestion that would greatly increase the royal family's prestige.

"This is not possible..." 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. During her reign, she adopted bloody suppression methods against Protestant forces and political opponents. She was a powerful queen who was not popular with the British people.

"What's wrong with being Marie I?" Prince Friedrich asked loudly. “Wasn’t the Tudors a golden age?”

Yeah, what's wrong with being Mary I? At least he won't be kicked out of office because of marriage issues! The Tudor dynasty to which Mary I belonged was the golden age of the British monarchy. In that era, there was neither the Bill of Rights nor the Act of Succession. The army was the king's tool, the Parliament was only responsible for providing advice, and the ministers were the king's servants. , people will never dare to take to the streets to protest regardless of anything.

The Duke of Windsor and Princess Elizabeth looked at each other. Neither of them knew how to answer Friedrich's question. At this moment, another Royal Guard officer rolled in and reported to Prince Friedrich.

"Sir, the marchers are storming Whitehall Street and are fighting with people from the London County Division!"

"Attack on Whitehall Street? There was a fight?" Friedrich frowned, "What was the fight like?"

"I don't know," the officer shook his head, "but the gunshots coming from the direction of Whitehall Street are very intensive!"

"What?" Prince Friedrich's face changed. He quickly walked to a closed window, opened the curtains, and then pushed open a large glass window with a bronze frame. The cold wind rushed in. Everyone in the stuffy conference room shivered, and then they heard crackling gunshots and louder slogans.

"There will be peace soon!"

"Down with Churchill!"

"Down with the Windsors!"

"Long live the Republic of England!"

The voices of the people and the heavy sound of gunfire reached the bunker where Churchill was located. They were loud and loud. It was clear that the number of people besieging Whitehall Street, King Charles Street and Downing Street was rapidly increasing.

The bunker was also noisy, with phones ringing one after another. Secretaries, staff officers, or higher-level officials were like ants on a hot pot, either shouting on the phone or running around. Only the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who was at the end of his rope, was sitting in his office, lighting a cigar and smoking it slowly, as if he didn't care about anything.

Churchill's personal secretary, John Martin, opened the door in a panic and ran in, "Mr. Prime Minister, the phone still can't be reached. None of the people sent out to contact us have come back..."

The phone lines have been cut! The Bolshevik Party and the Third International have been operating in London for many years, and they still have some foundations. The explosion in King Charles Street was the signal. At the same time as the explosion sounded, internationalist fighters cut off the phone lines.

At the same time, the death squads of the Bolshevik Party disguised themselves as British officers and soldiers and raided the headquarters of the Conservative Party, the Labor Party, the Liberal Party, the Fascist Alliance, and the homes of the bosses of these parties.

Nothing like this would have happened before the last London protests, when London was under tight control. However, after the London protests, the prestige of the war cabinet was discredited, and the morale of the people and the military in London began to fluctuate. Workers in the East End could openly form armed forces. Moreover, when the U.S. military withdrew, they handed over a considerable portion of their weapons and food to the Bolshevik-controlled unions, and the U.S. Embassy gave millions of dollars in rebellion funds. The combination of these factors caused the situation to gradually spiral out of control.

Churchill was not ignorant of this, but he made the same mistake as Kerensky in 1917, wanting to increase his prestige through a victory. But the British army failed to bring him victory...

"Where is Buckingham Palace?" Churchill asked calmly, "They shouted the slogan of overthrowing the Windsor Dynasty, so they should also send people to attack there, right?"

"Prime Minister, nothing will happen to Buckingham Palace. There are 12,000 Royal Guards stationed there."

"But they still pointed the finger at Buckingham Palace. Why?" After Churchill raised the question, he did not wait for his secretary to answer, but continued on by himself, "Didn't Stalin know that there are people in the British royal family who do not interfere in politics?" Tradition? Doesn't he know that the royal family has a royal guard? Why did he let the Bolsheviks in London target the Windsor Dynasty from the beginning? I think... he didn't think that the Bolsheviks in London could succeed at all! It’s just a Britain that has lost its political foundation and democratic system and is completely heading towards chaos and turmoil. This is what he wants!”

"Mr. Prime Minister," John Martin had no intention of listening to Churchill's nonsense. Listening to the bursts of gunfire outside, he hurriedly said loudly, "We can no longer hold the position. The rebels' firepower is very fierce and there are too many people. The soldiers of the London County Division cannot resist... You must leave immediately!"

Churchill smiled bitterly and said, "No, I won't leave. I won't go anywhere except to hell!" As he spoke, he took out a pistol from the drawer and said, "John, you can go by yourself. If you can enter Buckingham Palace, Please tell Her Majesty the Princess for me, if someone must have her hands stained with the blood of the people, I hope that person is her!”

After giving his last words and ruining the British Empire, the Prime Minister waved John Martin away and waited alone in the office, waiting for the end to come...