Start 1861: I Just Inherited the Dutch Throne

"The Wallenberg family has now begun to slowly use its Stockholm Bank, Sweden's largest and earliest private bank, to make predatory corporate acquisitions in Sweden. Now more than a quarter of Swedish corporate companies have become this bank. The customers are also the bank-owned enterprises.

The Wallenberg family used this stake in the company to provide low-cost financing to the company, making the company unable to resist the temptation and thus entered the network set by Wallenberg. "

"What is Wallenberg's purpose for doing this?" Prince Alfred couldn't help but ask.

Princess Louise had a better relationship with him among the many brothers and sisters. She smiled sweetly at him and said in amazement:

"I think Wallenberg is playing a long game to catch the big fish." In the Queen's extremely quiet eyes, Louise said in astonishing words:

"As long as there is any economic crisis in Sweden, or poor management on its own, resulting in a crisis in the payment of goods, the Wallenberg family can take the opportunity to annex the other party and achieve their goal of swallowing them up."

The Wallenberg family's practices were revealed bit by bit as Princess Louise was being dissected. At this dinner table, her relatives experienced for the first time what Princess Louise was saying in her confident conversation. Sweden's understanding has reached an astonishing level and is so thorough.

This made Queen Victoria feel sad. If Crown Prince Edward had such talents as hers, she would be relieved.

Thinking of her husband Leopold, I felt even more regretful.

"The Netherlands is becoming more and more powerful in Europe. Mother, if we do not reflect our immediate interests on the Dutch issue and the status of the United Kingdom, it will reduce the trust of the people in the British royal family. This is important for the support of the royal family. Huge loss.

Therefore, I suggest that the United Kingdom can be tougher on the Netherlands, so that they can understand that although the Netherlands has risen in status and developed rapidly, the Netherlands is still the Netherlands. The British maritime hegemon is still the empire on the sea where the sun never sets."

As time passed slowly, Princess Louise began to talk about European countries one by one, and finally talked about the Netherlands. She suggested:

"The UK must be in a strong position recognized by the Netherlands, so that our country can gain more benefits in negotiations."

When Crown Prince Edward heard this, he immediately agreed.

He was also a Britisher, so he was willing to do anything to increase Britain's prestige.

Just as he could later launch an opposition to the German Empire where his sister, Princess Victoria, became queen and queen mother, he did not hesitate and be soft-hearted in dealing with his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II before World War I.

"Alice, how about the Kingdom of Hanover? That's my hometown, and Georg V is my eldest cousin and your father's cousin.

I'm going to let you marry there and become the Crown Princess of Hanover. What do you think? "

Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but look at her.

Queen Victoria wanted Alice to marry in Hanover?

Princess Alice suddenly felt the silence around her. She thought of the Dutch figure in her mind, and sighed inwardly. Finally, she gritted her teeth and said decisively: "It's all up to the mother."

Queen Victoria looked at her seriously, sighed, and was about to speak.

Prince Edward: "Mother, Alice"

Seeing the queen staring at him dissatisfied, he couldn't help but shut his mouth.

Queen Victoria: "If that's the case, then so be it."

She stood up, turned back to Princess Alice and said: "Some things should be broken off, and don't break the thread."

After she left, everyone at the dinner table fell silent for a while.

Prince Edward: "Alice, me"

Alice: "Edward, I know you want to help me, but my mother's choice is actually not a bad one."

After saying that, she stood up, showed an apologetic expression to the others, and then left quickly.

Princess Louise stood up at this time, came to Crown Prince Edward, and said: "I think it's good, at least that way, I can get closer to William IV."

Then he ignored Prince Edward's dissatisfaction and left with a smile.

Crown Prince Edward looked at Prince Alfred next to him and said, "Have you seen Alice's sadness?"

The latter rolled his eyes and said, "Anyone who's not blind will know."

Princess Beatrice: "Yes, I know it all"

Edward: "Kid, you are only 8 years old, you know what to write"

Then Edward sighed: "The Kingdom of Hanover? Maybe, as Louise said, Alice can be there to soothe her sadness."

The remaining people were silent after hearing this.

February 1, 1865.

The British royal family announced that their fourth child, Princess Alice, the second daughter of Queen Victoria, will marry the royal family of the Kingdom of Hanover.

She will be engaged to Crown Prince Ernst, the eldest son of King Georg V of the Kingdom of Hanover, on March 20, 1865, and will be married on June 10 of the same year.

After the disagreement, the European royal family became silent.

The Queen of England has many children, and her marriage policy has always meant extraordinary things to Britain.

Just like this marriage to the Kingdom of Hanover.

The Kingdom of Hanover was originally Queen Victoria's ancestral home. Her father was Prince Edward, Duke of Kent, Kingdom of Hanover, and the fourth prince of George III of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Hanover.

Queen Victoria's father's eldest brothers, George IV and William IV, successively succeeded the kings of the two countries, but they both died early and had no descendants.

So William IV, the British-Hanoverian king, wanted to pass the position to Queen Victoria.

However, some people in Hanover did not want Hanover to continue to be under British rule, so they initiated the Salic Succession Law, which prohibited women from inheriting the throne. In the end, Queen Victoria only inherited the British throne, and her fifth uncle Ernst-August I ( The then Duke of Elber) succeeded to the throne in 1837.

This is a close kiss!

Many people even speculate that this is the British royal family's desire to expand its presence on the European continent in response to the British influence being pushed away by Prussia, France and the Netherlands in recent years.

The current King Georg V of the Hanover royal family is Queen Victoria's cousin, and the age difference between the two is less than a month.

Although there are doubts about the marriage of the eldest sister, Britain, Hanover itself can become the fourth largest country in the German Confederation after the Austrian Empire, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Kingdom of Bavaria because of the support of the United Kingdom.

It is still ranked ahead of the Kingdom of Saxony, and the geographical location of the Kingdom of Hanover is destined to become a thorn in the eyes of various countries.

William IV was also stunned when he heard the news. He thought of Princess Alice, who showed her brave eyes to show her love to him at the blind date meeting he held, and the deeply hidden Princess Louise. Of course, now it was his brother-in-law, the sexy figure of Princess Helena, wife of Prince George of Denmark, who also flashed in his mind.

The Kingdom of Hanover obviously suffered a setback in the Schleswig War this time, so it was willing to accept the British overtures, but was also on guard against it.

William IV sneered and thought to himself: However, Prussia, who is in urgent need of access to the sea, will Bismarck and others let Hanover retreat unscathed?

Do you still remember when the Kingdom of Hanover was conquered by Prussia?