Great Engellex
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BY the GRACE of GOD, her MAJESTY the QUEEN-EMPRESS CHARLOTTE
DULWICH, SUNDAY, 13th JANUARY 1953
TO HIS DANISH MAJESTY KING HANS GUSTAV III OF THE KINGDOM OF DANMARK
The great value I personally attach to the friendship of you, Hans Gustav of Danmark, the greater was my regret at perceiving that you altogether have engaged to separate yourself from me and my Court.
Many times have I taken up the pen, as Sovereign of the Empire of Great Engellex, in which the cause was most directly that of the Kingdom of Danmark; and I and my Ministers had solicited in vain from you and your Kingdom a co-operation which your interest required. I had not ever made such demands of your Court being united with my own; it was only ever desired that your Court at Christiansborg should maintain a degree of silent, dignified understanding between us. It was with no astonishment in my capital metropolis that your dynastic cause, for the Crown of Agderike and Fey, did not act in unison to the political positions of myself and my Ministers; but coolly contemplating a disgraceful spectacle, in a crisis which been kindled at your own will, you have determined it necessary to deploy warships of the Royal Danish Navy to Preuti and Saamiskavia. There was and continues to be reason to believe that this was done to make an advancement upon the prestige of my Realm, when it was understood that no previous efforts had been exhausted to communicate the intentions and determinations of your Kingdom in respect of Agderike and Fey.
But what sensibly touched my heart, as the Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex, was, to perceive that your Kingdom of Danmark, contrary to our traditional good faith and the express and precise terms of diplomatic etiquette, endeavoured to besiege the Ministries of my Empire with the most deplorable, and completely unacceptable statements of the greatest offence. And what an epoch. When the blood of the Engellexic was shedding in the most glorious warfares of this century; which drew down, and fixed against my armies of this Empire of Great Engellex, all the military force of the European Defence Federation, and even, with the strongest possibilities at the time, the armies of the Emperor of Wiese, with whom Danmark was, and continues to be in a political struggle with. When I determined a peace be made between the Empire of Great Engellex and the European Defence Federation, I, in spite of the just resentment of my Crown Subjects toward you and your Kingdom of Danmark, did not refrain from rendering to you recognition. I had stipulated, even in the very treaty, that the Court of Christiansborg would be invited to declare a royal candidate to the princely crown of the Principality of Fontaine-Harcourt. But the Danish Ministries, apparently faithful to that enterprise of hegemony, has proceeded to loosen and break the bonds which had connected Great Engellex and Danmark with insidious intrigue.
Then it was that Danmark suddenly quitted that apparent reluctance to which you had quite abandoned yourself; but it was to cast upon the North of Europe new firebrands, which were to rekindle and nourish the flames of war, which you obviously did not wish to see truly extinguished. Your fleets appeared upon the coasts of Saamiskavia, to execute there an act of diplomatic violence of which history, so fertile in examples, does not furnish a single parallel. The Empire of Great Engellex, a tranquil and respected Power, which by long and un-changing wisdom had obtained in the circle of civilised Europe a moral dignity, has found itself assaulted and treated as if it had been forging plots, and mediating the ruin of Danmark; and all to justify your prompt and total spoliation of the Kingdom of Agderike and Fey. My Engellexic Empire, wounded in its dignity, in the interests of my Crown Subjects, in my engagements with the other Courts of Europe, by this act of excessive political violence committed by his Excellency the Danish Foreign Secretary, Mister Westerveld, does not dissemble our just resentment against the Danish Monarch and his Kingdom, and I announce to you that I could not remain insensible to it.
I did not foresee that when the Kingdom of Danmark, having employed her diplomatic force so aggressively, was about to bear away her prey, under your name would the Danish Kingdom commit anew outrage against the Engellexic Empire, and that I, as the Queen-Empress of the Engellexic Empire, do find it necessary to act upon it.
Your Prime Minister believed that it was possible to propose to my Imperial Court at Battent, that the Engellexic Realm should become the apologist and the close acquaintance of what the Sovereign and Crown Subjects of the Empire now truly resent in absolute unity. To this proceeding, as Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex, the Kingdom of Danmark and the Sovereign of that Kingdom shall have paid to it no more attention than it truly deserved. It is has been deemed sensible to place upon the Danish Realm absolute limits.
There shall from henceforth be no connection between the Court of Battent and the Court of Christiansborg. I, the Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex, do declare, that I have annulled, and forever, every preceding convention between the Empire of Great Engellex and the Kingdom of Danmark, and particularly that entered into in September nineteen-fifty-two, the Grand European Trade Pact. I do proclaim to assert henceforth the principles of an armed neutrality to Borussian-Sarmatian Affairs, and do engage never to recede from this system. I do demand from you, King Hans Gustav III of Danmark, complete satisfaction to my Court of Battent and my Crown Subjects, for the just reclamations of imperial honour, detained against the press tenor of diplomatic etiquette. I do engage to inform, as the Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex, and with the full and energetic confidence of the Council of State and the Imperial Parliament at Dulwich, that you, King Hans Gustav III of Danmark shall not be permitted to depart the Gothic Sea of Saamiskavia, till satisfaction shall have been received by my Court of Battent.
I do expect that you, Hans Gustav of Danmark, instead of suffering your Ministers, as you do, to scatter the seeds of fresh war, listening only to your own feelings, will be disposed to conclude such a satisfactory apology to the Empire of Great Engellex, in your own name.
When I shall deem myself satisfied upon all the preceding points, and especially upon that of an apology from you, Hans Gustav of Danmark, without which no part of Europe can promise itself real tranquillity, I do, as the Queen-Empress of Great Engellex, promise to consider the resuming, with the Kingdom of Danmark, relations of amity, which, under the just discontent which I could not but feel, I have, perhaps, preserved too long.
Her Engellexic Imperial MAJESTY, the QUEEN-EMPRESS,
By the Grace of GOD, of the EMPIRE of GREAT ENGELLEX, CHARLOTTE, EMPRESS of GREAT ENGELLEX,
QUEEN of LOYNE, DUKE of HOUNTTON-WOLSSEX, DEFENDER of PREUTI-BORUSSIA