Great Engellex
Established Nation
THE GREAT WEST & THE GREATER EAST
THE DAWN OF IMPERIAL UNITY
Dulwich, Union of Great Engellex, August 2005
As Charlotte Cavendish-Bentincke, Queen of Engellex and now Queen of Great Engellex, stepped through the entrance of the official royal residence in Dulwich no doubt she considered herself to be making history. And so she would. She had already made a series of remarkable political achievements whilst a peer in the House of Lords (as Duchess of Hountton-Wolssex) from serving and chairing a number of committees and, what was more, a woman on the throne leading the charge of National Parliamentary Reform. Moreover, she was a woman with a mission; to arrest and reverse her nation’s declining fortunes and to save it from a fate worse than death - socialist revolution. The European Defence Federation at this point was not a focus of national outrage. Her election by the House of Lords in 2005 was achieved against the background of two decades of declining fortunes in which many industries that boomed Post-War now suffered intense competition overseas, some of them decline, and the national prestige that maintained the political strength of Great Engellex had almost been lost. The preference by the Lords for a dithering and quiet Executive (monarch), as it had been Post-War, had ended in favour of a monarch who would compete with them for power, as the Constitution allows.
Dulwich, a year after her coronation, in 2006, still was faithful to its assertion as the Imperial Metropolis. It was the cener of all that was proper, all that was smart and much that was haughty in Great Engellexic life. Its great opera and ballet companies, its symphonies and chamber orchestras played the music of Elgar, Avison, Handel, Walton, Vaughan Williams, and Strallan-Leus; the people read Austen, Christie, Dickens, Lewis, Blake and Wells. But high society spoke Aren, not Engellexic. The capital was the centre of all things fashionable from clothing to furniture. The aristocracy retreated to the fashionable spa towns of Walssex-Battent and Wantage , their country seats too, when not in season and not abroad like most countries. Men attended the race tracks and the political, social, and, most importantly, the gambling clubs that lined the gentrified avenues of Central Dulwich. Ladies awoke later, and received the business of charity before their timely promenade along the fashionable streets of the capital. Love affairs were regimented and strict, the ceaseless rustle of gossip and the disapproval of Court meant that they didn’t flourish so liberally. The Court upheld Moral Discipline as a National and European example.
Every night society went to the Royal and Imperial Prom at the imposing Royal Edward & Caroline Hall or to the His Majesty’s Theatre, where the lowly stalls complained of being blinded by the abundance of jewels. After either event, ladies and their partners bundled themselves into their shawls in their polished black and chrome Jaguar Mark Vs. The front grills of these cars glistened smoothly along the streets for one of the many exclusive restaurants for supper and then, of course, dancing. The season in London was in full swing, which begins in April and ends in August. Through these months, the aristocracy of the capital moved through a staggering round of concerts, banquets, balls, ballets, operas, private parties and midnight suppers. Everybody gave one and everybody went. There receptions at which the officers in brilliant uniforms with blazing decorations and ladies in billowing gowns milled about in high-ceilinged drawing rooms, plucking glasses of champagne from passing servants and filling their plates with the finery of the Engellexic cook book. At the height of the season, ladies put on their diamonds in the morning, attended the cathedrals for service, received circles at tea, took the air with a promenade in the afternoon and then went home to dress for a ball. Traditionally, the finest balls of all were given by the Kings and Queens of Great Engellex at their Dulwich palaces - the competition between these monarchs was incredibly fierce.
Charlotte made no difference in this tradition, instead she raised the standards to levels never before seen with her Royal & Imperial Balls.
In 2006, the gilded world of the Engellexic aristocracy seemed at a second zenith. In fact, fashionable society in Europe, like the rest of mankind, qwas one step from a potential abyss. Within five years, the European Defence Federation would be defeated, one king and one pope would be removed from power, and two kingdoms would crumble into nothing. Even by 2006, the late-20th century was acknowledged as being ridden with omens of a looming danger. Yet the aristocracy continued to move through the world of elegant spas, magnificent ballrooms, top hats and parasols, and with most monarchs of the 21st century submitting themselves to a more weaker and unnecessary form within the Europe of Constitutions, the task of giving character to the splendid world of European Society rested at the feet of a very small number of strong monarchs. The Queen of the Union of Great Engellex, the soon to be Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex (2011), was one of them. Charlotte revelled in the new pre-eminence of the Great Engellexic Crown and scorned the weaker Crowns of Europe. But beneath the polished heels of kings and society, there was another existence where millions of commoners lived, worked and died. The industrial revolutions had turned kingdoms and empires into industrial behemoths. The new industrial cities had given the Crowns vastly greater power to make war, as was experienced from the late 19th century onwards and would continue to a new Great War in 2011. In the chaos and senseless slaughter of these wars had promises of revolutions been made. Engellex was one of those states where such promises were most feared.
Even without the prospect of a terrible war, the stresses produced by the industrialization of Great Engellex during the Post-War period guaranteed storms of frustration and unrest. Since the last Great War successive Cabinets had shuddered against the impact of strikes and social unrest. The red banners that floated viciously in many countries around Europe were feared in the Imperial Metropolis. Because never before in the nation’s history had there been such a great contrast of the effortless lives of the aristocracy and the cruel existence of the working masses. It was in this atmosphere of gloom, desperation and suspicion that Queen Charlotte began a policy for the Assertion of Imperial Unity.
It was with aspirations of New Glories for the Unity of the Imperial Realm that persuaded Charlotte to look to the Orient - the Near East - and stretch out her delicate porcelain hand to Stary Hrodino in Greater Sarmatia. August 2006 marked the first time Queen Charlotte and Emperor Jozef III Koscialkowsky would meet, as the Emperor had been invited to Dulwich for a three day State Visit at the Royal Palace at Dulwich.
THE DAWN OF IMPERIAL UNITY
Dulwich, Union of Great Engellex, August 2005
As Charlotte Cavendish-Bentincke, Queen of Engellex and now Queen of Great Engellex, stepped through the entrance of the official royal residence in Dulwich no doubt she considered herself to be making history. And so she would. She had already made a series of remarkable political achievements whilst a peer in the House of Lords (as Duchess of Hountton-Wolssex) from serving and chairing a number of committees and, what was more, a woman on the throne leading the charge of National Parliamentary Reform. Moreover, she was a woman with a mission; to arrest and reverse her nation’s declining fortunes and to save it from a fate worse than death - socialist revolution. The European Defence Federation at this point was not a focus of national outrage. Her election by the House of Lords in 2005 was achieved against the background of two decades of declining fortunes in which many industries that boomed Post-War now suffered intense competition overseas, some of them decline, and the national prestige that maintained the political strength of Great Engellex had almost been lost. The preference by the Lords for a dithering and quiet Executive (monarch), as it had been Post-War, had ended in favour of a monarch who would compete with them for power, as the Constitution allows.
Dulwich, a year after her coronation, in 2006, still was faithful to its assertion as the Imperial Metropolis. It was the cener of all that was proper, all that was smart and much that was haughty in Great Engellexic life. Its great opera and ballet companies, its symphonies and chamber orchestras played the music of Elgar, Avison, Handel, Walton, Vaughan Williams, and Strallan-Leus; the people read Austen, Christie, Dickens, Lewis, Blake and Wells. But high society spoke Aren, not Engellexic. The capital was the centre of all things fashionable from clothing to furniture. The aristocracy retreated to the fashionable spa towns of Walssex-Battent and Wantage , their country seats too, when not in season and not abroad like most countries. Men attended the race tracks and the political, social, and, most importantly, the gambling clubs that lined the gentrified avenues of Central Dulwich. Ladies awoke later, and received the business of charity before their timely promenade along the fashionable streets of the capital. Love affairs were regimented and strict, the ceaseless rustle of gossip and the disapproval of Court meant that they didn’t flourish so liberally. The Court upheld Moral Discipline as a National and European example.
Every night society went to the Royal and Imperial Prom at the imposing Royal Edward & Caroline Hall or to the His Majesty’s Theatre, where the lowly stalls complained of being blinded by the abundance of jewels. After either event, ladies and their partners bundled themselves into their shawls in their polished black and chrome Jaguar Mark Vs. The front grills of these cars glistened smoothly along the streets for one of the many exclusive restaurants for supper and then, of course, dancing. The season in London was in full swing, which begins in April and ends in August. Through these months, the aristocracy of the capital moved through a staggering round of concerts, banquets, balls, ballets, operas, private parties and midnight suppers. Everybody gave one and everybody went. There receptions at which the officers in brilliant uniforms with blazing decorations and ladies in billowing gowns milled about in high-ceilinged drawing rooms, plucking glasses of champagne from passing servants and filling their plates with the finery of the Engellexic cook book. At the height of the season, ladies put on their diamonds in the morning, attended the cathedrals for service, received circles at tea, took the air with a promenade in the afternoon and then went home to dress for a ball. Traditionally, the finest balls of all were given by the Kings and Queens of Great Engellex at their Dulwich palaces - the competition between these monarchs was incredibly fierce.
Charlotte made no difference in this tradition, instead she raised the standards to levels never before seen with her Royal & Imperial Balls.
In 2006, the gilded world of the Engellexic aristocracy seemed at a second zenith. In fact, fashionable society in Europe, like the rest of mankind, qwas one step from a potential abyss. Within five years, the European Defence Federation would be defeated, one king and one pope would be removed from power, and two kingdoms would crumble into nothing. Even by 2006, the late-20th century was acknowledged as being ridden with omens of a looming danger. Yet the aristocracy continued to move through the world of elegant spas, magnificent ballrooms, top hats and parasols, and with most monarchs of the 21st century submitting themselves to a more weaker and unnecessary form within the Europe of Constitutions, the task of giving character to the splendid world of European Society rested at the feet of a very small number of strong monarchs. The Queen of the Union of Great Engellex, the soon to be Queen-Empress of the Empire of Great Engellex (2011), was one of them. Charlotte revelled in the new pre-eminence of the Great Engellexic Crown and scorned the weaker Crowns of Europe. But beneath the polished heels of kings and society, there was another existence where millions of commoners lived, worked and died. The industrial revolutions had turned kingdoms and empires into industrial behemoths. The new industrial cities had given the Crowns vastly greater power to make war, as was experienced from the late 19th century onwards and would continue to a new Great War in 2011. In the chaos and senseless slaughter of these wars had promises of revolutions been made. Engellex was one of those states where such promises were most feared.
Even without the prospect of a terrible war, the stresses produced by the industrialization of Great Engellex during the Post-War period guaranteed storms of frustration and unrest. Since the last Great War successive Cabinets had shuddered against the impact of strikes and social unrest. The red banners that floated viciously in many countries around Europe were feared in the Imperial Metropolis. Because never before in the nation’s history had there been such a great contrast of the effortless lives of the aristocracy and the cruel existence of the working masses. It was in this atmosphere of gloom, desperation and suspicion that Queen Charlotte began a policy for the Assertion of Imperial Unity.
It was with aspirations of New Glories for the Unity of the Imperial Realm that persuaded Charlotte to look to the Orient - the Near East - and stretch out her delicate porcelain hand to Stary Hrodino in Greater Sarmatia. August 2006 marked the first time Queen Charlotte and Emperor Jozef III Koscialkowsky would meet, as the Emperor had been invited to Dulwich for a three day State Visit at the Royal Palace at Dulwich.
