Declaration of the Queen-Empress Charlotte of the Empire of Great Engellex (Attn. Danmark)

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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

 

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SLOT KARLHEIM ‖ EMYN AREN
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THE SOVEREIGN

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As the door to the year of nineteen hundred and fifty-two is closed behind us in solemnity and the shards of light that we see and aromas in the air that we smell give us hints to that year's natural successor, as they deign their grace or disgrace upon us as we open the door to this the year of nineteen hundred and fifty three, I am reminded of the undiscovered treasures and obvious unknown quantities that beckon making the future both one of progress and also one of potential adversity. No doubt, there will remain the vestiges of the old in which little changes but this is to be taken with the surprises in store for all of us whoever we may be as things develop in ways we sometimes may consider that we can easily imagine but often can never do.

In some ways, the diplomatic crisis that has burgeoned between several capital cities is a case in point. It involves elements of the old and also of the new and has the potential ability to herald undiscovered terrains for us all. The way the potion is mixed can result in either of several side-effects. Upon that, we shall all await the developments.

For the second time in my short reign, I am called upon personally in my capacity as King to stand above the ordinary spheres, to make my own reflections upon the great events that have happenchanced to cause immense hurt and strife to many peoples in different quarters and in different lands. As King, I am also a human being and I take no pleasure whatsoever in seeing needless calculating animosity, the enlargement of conflicts and the very precise exactation of sorrow upon innocent and quiet peoples either through dislocation, terror, disease, fright and at the horrors of death which war is in inescapable and terrible end consequence.

As is, I hope, to be understood as per constitution and as per practice, I and my forebears as the monarchs of my realm act and have acted with the utmost integrity and abide by the strongly inculcated principles of service, nobility, integrity, trust, respect, and honour to the Great Danish people at home and abroad, near and far, whether they be of the highest to the lowest. The grand duke to the sweeper of the street, state politician to plumber, the admiral to the craftsman - I make no division or preference for any as I am monarch to all not just a few.

As may be known, or perhaps not, my own role, that of the Queen Consort, my family and of my heirs and forebears, adhere to a constitutional framework heralded under the Stateligetablering or Settlement of State of 1863 which en-guilds the strong presence of parliamentary government and a strong executive with monarchy as the uniting office from which ultimate authority runs but one which necessarily usually precludes the entrance of the monarch into the political sphere with its role as being Head of State. Whereas aspects of this arrangement may be necessarily different and divergent to arrangements found elsewhere across the globe, there are obvious similarities with many nations of a monarchical or even republican nature. Perhaps it is the onus placed upon the similarities or differences that is the striking and critical element that either creates friendship or enmity either via the striking accords of affection or, in obverse, the discords of aversion.

As King, I am charged with being not only the symbol of the state but primarily of the people, from whence the title Kongen Stor Danskerne derives ~ far older than the state and with links to the far distant past. However, some may claim that "Staten, er Kongen" ("The State, is the King"). Whilst I would not personally wish to subscribe to that, many would claim this is in essence a truth. Whatever the realities or otherwise, I am nonetheless the supreme symbol and ultimate font of power from which all else is derived whether in parliamentary government, the Offices of State and in all other levels.

However, as it is no doubt appreciated, I am also the supreme symbol of my country to the rest of the world, the so-called Family of Nations, and therefore occurrences within the domains of the usual political discourse that are ordinary confined to that alone can sometimes reach circumstances that are in far excess. The augmentation of disputes that have recently intrigued most of us and that have led to exigencies between some peoples and some nations has drawn me to make my own foray in this, an exceedingly rare, address and one that I am not inclined to repeat at too-often an occurance aside from official state occasions.

To myself, there has been an air of calumniation which I would not ordinary respond to but in this circumstance, I do believe it is of necessity that I do. It is also upon myself that I shall communicate directly. Having been in daily consort with my ministers in the Rigskabinet, including the two ministers that you, Charlotte, have taken the opportunity to mention ~ my Statsminister and my foreign minister ~ and also upon assessing the sentiments not only of my parliament but of the people and others aside, I have come to numerous conclusions.

From my discussions, it has not been allowed to escape me that there exists a sentiment of grave betrayal not only at what is perceived to have been a unilateral transgression in the calm affairs between my country and your own but that this was beyond the sphere of their own control ~ singularly the decisions over what is seen as an attack upon their king, their queen ~ my consort and I ~ which, it has been communicated, is an act that no one within the government would have entertained themselves to any other head of state in enacting in a similar fashion. There does exist an acknowledgement that the Disruption may have been deepened along its course through reactive acts and statements from my ministers in result of actions from outside their own remits, channeling the issue into an ever deeper strait, but that the root cause does not reside, ultimately, with the powers that exist in my capital, as I am informed and as I assess from various sources. The single act that has caused the greatest offence to many is that attempts have been made to circumvent the ability of the King and Queen Consort to travel and perform state duties up until which no cause of dispute had ever been significant to display frictions between our two realms and until that development had never displayed themselves to anyone.

Whilst this issue does continue to aggravate, leading to measures such as the dispatch of a fleet in order to more readily secure the protection of my consort and I, and has the potential to become significantly graver and overwhelmingly dire, it has instilled within me an immense sadness to see a misunderstanding, perhaps, as regards my personal escort. I am more than confident that my ministers had taken great care in ensuring that my personal escort was communicated as such and I am only too personally aware that this is a truth as I sought personally to travel to Kristiania upon the death of my beloved cousin, Haakon and the inheritance of the throne of Agder and Fey in my own personal grief. In an atmosphere of catastrophic storms the results of which have not only seen the people of that Realm bludgeoned across their faces with nettles and the sores of which I feel upon my own, I am called upon to uphold my duty.

Taken all in scope, it is with a crossing of the wires, perhaps a failure in mutual communications and resulting anger at what some have seen as the misregard of my consort and I that has led to the events that we now all see displayed before us, but if I have to be temperate, there is cause that some of my ministers could and should have acted in a greater repose.

However, there is an important element that I sincerely do not deviate from and I respect and trust and support the initiative. Within my discussions, it has been signalled to me that there also is an understanding which could be surmised as a 'failure of faith' in that despite efforts to seek direct talks between my Statsminister and his opposite these came to pass away in their virgin moot. This is saddening. I am of the personal opinion that these talks, as ventured forth by my prime minister, were always meant and are meant in honour and I have not seen any indication to the contrary. It is my subtle belief that these are worthwhile and composed of a manner of friendship and I would concur in their development as a method of healing very obvious gashes into the body of the friendship committed, if I may say and with all honesty, now that time has come to pass and we now see the full development, from both capitals of Christiansborg and Dulwich. Upon that I am more than willing to be plain about.

I signalled a few short sentences ago to an apparent Disruption borne from misunderstanding. Whatever the initial causes and the to-and-fro, I can say with certainty that there exists a robustness, even brutality, in Danish political life and speech and also its dynamics that can sometimes be misjudged when it is, within the domestic sphere, a rich and vibrant life of theatre. Most know, and I am more than obviously readily acquainted, that the people of my country have a social culture which is very necessarily direct, suffers fools poorly, and does not stand on ceremony. Whilst this is a interesting facet and cultural phenomenon of my country it can be seen as otherwise from those not too readily acquainted with Danish manners. One supposes that this element of the Danes is one that sometimes can take some getting used to and can result in fall-out unintended. But one thing that I am certainly aware of is the honesty and integrity that exists. Whilst, as an example that has been noted, my foreign minister may speak clearly and loudly it is also with integrity and truth. I have not seen an occasion where he has failed to do so and, from my own dealings, my foreign minister, when he communicates that white is white, he means that. He does not mean white is black. In simplicity, if he makes a statement saying one thing, that is what is meant, and not something else, even if it may be in a manner not as I would wish to do.

Needless to say, I am also aware that his own statements appear to have been misjudged, misread or communicated in a manner which may and also appears to have been deemed as inappropriate with less care and due regard to the sensibilities of cultures such as your own. This is a woeful consequence and it is one that has to come to pass that I, as King, have been drawn into in order to reinvigorate the faith and decency in relations between my country and that of your own.

I am personally somewhat wounded that after having conducted a successful State Visit to Dulwich only weeks ago, one of many to several countries, that you should not have taken the opportunity to approach me in person before as I had hoped that it was more than readily known to you that my counsel and person are more than readily available to sovereigns and others deemed of respect. I trust that your personal petition to me in person ~ Sovereign to Sovereign ~ was in no doubt with this in mind, nonetheless, and I am keenly aware of this act.

In my own personal undertaking to which you have beseeched I can give assurances that I have spoken to my ministers and urged them to bear in mind cultural disconnects and to encourage mindfulness of sensitivities that exist within your realm upon which I have garnered dedication to this whilst in the conduct of state business. I can only regret that this disconnect was not comprehended by others but I am encouraged should be no more an issue though it is with grace that I, as Sovereign, can communicate my displeasure at events and the method of communication which has caused personal offence to my friend, yourself, and from my country, to those that act upon my behalf.

I accordingly encourage you to take measures that seek to pour quietitude upon the situation that causes my ministers offence and urge the meeting to take place between Ministers of State of both nations forthwith and I do not believe it would cause harm to make overtures that repair damage that satisfies domestic consumption in my own country in the area of apparent harm to myself even if I am more than calm in awaiting this and composed of benevolent understanding.


Gud Bevare Dronningen-Kejserinde,
God Save the Queen-Empress.


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HM KING FREDERIK III