Chapter 4 The Queen's Decision
"I understand, Arthur. I agree with you going out, but not now." Queen Victoria was silent for a long time, then nodded with difficulty and said.
"Thank you, grandma." Arthur finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Queen Victoria gratefully.
"When the matters during this period are settled, I will accompany you to Australia to have a look!" Queen Victoria suddenly spoke, but her words were shocking.
"Are you going to Australia?" Arthur was suddenly startled, and then thought of Queen Victoria's massive expedition to White Island, a small island in the north of New Zealand, at the end of 1900, just to miss Prince Albert and their children at the last moment of her life. Great time spent.
"Yes." Queen Victoria seemed to be immersed in beautiful memories. It took a long time to come back to her senses. She looked at Arthur and said with a smile: "Grandma will be able to stay with Arthur for a while, and she may never see her again. ."
Hearing Queen Victoria say this, the tip of Arthur's nose suddenly became sore, and tears seemed to well up in his eyes, but Arthur held it back.
"No, grandma. You can stay with Arthur for a long time, and grandma will at least live a long life." Arthur said quickly.
In fact, when Queen Victoria went to the Isle of Wight, she had clearly learned about her physical condition, but she still chose to travel hard to miss her husband and children.
Now that Queen Victoria has once again experienced the pain of losing her son, she may have felt that her body is not as good as before, and she plans to go to the Isle of Wight to bring her life to a successful end.
"Haha, okay, grandma will live a long life." Queen Victoria smiled and nodded, not refuting Arthur's words, but her slightly sad eyes and slightly trembling hands proved that she did not believe it.
"Arthur, are you really going to Australia?" After coming back to her senses, Queen Victoria looked at Arthur with some seriousness and asked.
“伱要清楚，澳大利亚并不比英国本土，那里之前是我们的罪犯流放地，虽然现在已经不是了，但仍然还是有大量的澳大利亚人不服教化。”维多利亚女王解释到：“如果你要去澳大利亚的话，那么就随时得做好准备，那里的人可都不是顺民，你必须得握紧枪杆和财富，才能保证自己和自己最重要的人不会受伤害。”
“是的，我准备好了，祖母。”阿瑟点了点头，同样郑重的说到。
“那就行，阿瑟。”维多利亚女王摸了摸阿瑟的头，说到：“我会告诉政府，你现在所继承的所有领地和澳大利亚互换，爵位也会随之变成澳大利亚公爵。当然，如果你受不了澳大利亚的生活的话，祖母也随时欢迎你回来。”
“谢谢祖母。”阿瑟感激的点点头。
说到底，维多利亚女王对于自己的家人还是不错的，特别是对阿瑟公爵和比啊特丽斯公主来说，维多利亚女王是最亲爱的母亲。
当然，现在维多利亚女王的这份关爱阿瑟也能够感觉得到，特别是在阿瑟公爵意外去世之后，不管是有意还是无意，维多利亚女王对阿瑟更加关爱。
维多利亚女王的行动很快，仅仅是第二天，英国政府就出了通告，澳大利亚几个殖民地合并为澳大利亚公爵领地，由阿瑟统治。
而原本阿瑟从自己父亲那继承的几个爵位，也都还给了大英帝国。
这次领地互换明面上来看是阿瑟的巨大亏损，毕竟虽然他的两个公爵领土地面积并不大，但却是实打实的大英帝国核心区域。
而换来的澳大利亚，在数十年前还曾经是大英帝国的罪犯流放地，现在也只是一个土地面积虽然广阔，但人口稀少，经济工业落后的殖民地。 哪怕经过整合，成为了一个完整的领地，也缺乏基础设施，至少在数十年内都比不上阿瑟原来的两个公爵领。
Although everyone from the British government to the British civilians were surprised by this territory exchange, they understood something when they thought about the assassination of Duke Arthur not long ago.
January 31, 1900.
At this time, 20 days had passed since Arthur's territory exchange, and everyone had accepted it, including Queen Victoria and Arthur.
During this time, in addition to Queen Victoria occasionally paying attention to Arthur and Princess Louise as well as Margaret and Patricia, Princess Beatrice and Crown Prince Edward also visited.
Perhaps knowing that he would have no trouble inheriting the throne after Arthur exchanged territories, Crown Prince Edward was also very kind to Arthur, and even promised to sponsor Arthur with a sum of money when he went to the territory.
Because of Queen Victoria's deliberate concealment, Arthur did not yet know that his father-killing enemy was his uncle, Prince Edward.
But no matter what, Arthur would not refuse Prince Edward's gift.
After all, Australia's future development will take time and also require a large amount of funds to support it.
Although Arthur has a way to obtain a large amount of funds, it may even be able to support Australia's development in the next few years.
But this amount of money is difficult to obtain in a short period of time. At least until Arthur has complete control of Australia, Arthur will not touch the idea of this unexpected wealth.
After 20 days of preparation, Queen Victoria also announced the news to all her children and the government that she chose to drag her exhausted body to White Island in New Zealand for recuperation.
The Queen's decision still caused turmoil in the British political arena. After all, when Prince Albert died in 1861, Queen Victoria had lived in seclusion for more than ten years.
Although Queen Victoria later became active again, she was welcomed by a large number of British civilians at the grand celebrations celebrating the 50th and 60th years of the Queen's accession to the throne.
But this does not mean that Queen Victoria's seclusion has little impact on British politics.
On the contrary, the current Queen Victoria plays an irreplaceable stabilizing role both in British politics and in the entire British Empire.
Queen Victoria is a great and irreplaceable monarch in British politics and even in the hearts of all British civilians.
This phenomenon also appeared in later generations of Queen Victoria. The long reign greatly increased the prestige of the Queen and the royal family among the people. Coupled with the great rise of the British Empire in the Victorian era, Queen Victoria had a great influence on Britain. say it is more important.
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