WILLY, NICKY AND GEORGIE IN VICKYS BLOOD LINE BUST UP - EMPERORS AT WAR : PART 1
He thought that his cousins King George V and Tsar Nicholas II were almost identical, and that it was a shame that he would soon have to annihilate their Empires.
Wilhelm guessed that their Grandmother would not be amused, but he was confident that he would successfully complete the act, especially as she had passed away almost a decade ago. Indeed, his Russian cousins wife, confidant, and not so secret lover, the "Mad Monk" Rasputin, had prophesised his victory over the British and Russians in many of his drug and alcohol fuelled rants.
As the Kaiser sat before the sepia photograph contemplating the future, he was rudely interrupted by his wife Augusta Victoria, who demanded that he stopped looking at the photo and help her to entertain their guests, the Sonderburgs, who had arrived from Schleswig-Holstein earlier that day. The Sonderburgs were visiting so as to discuss a disputed border between their territories and to settle a discrepancy regarding the payment of wergild for an earlier family tragedy.
Wilhelm, or Willy as the family called him, joined the Sonderburgs and his wife in the mirrored drawing room that was adjacent to the state ballroom. Willy quickly retorted to the seated Duke of Sonderburg-Coburg that the question of the disputed border had been settled by his father, Wilhelm I, and that there was no further discussion to have. After a short hesitation, he retorted that although he would no longer discuss the past, he was happy to divulge future plans that would involve Lebensraum to the East and the seizure of territories in North America and the West Indies.
Meanwhile, in St Petersburg Tsar Nicholas II, Emperor of all the Russia's, stroked his beard as he thought of destroying his cousins Germanic and British Empires. The river Neva flowing past his palace window was chocked with ice, and Tsar Nick noticed that the Russian winter was beginning to bite. His thoughts quickly turned to his base at Kronstadt, situated across the Bay of Neva, and of his newly strengthened naval forces. He summoned an equerry to deliver a message to is Admiral of the Fleet and swiftly dictated a brief instruction for the fleet to prepare for an engagement.
The equerry departed with the message and made his way to the palace gates. As he entered the quadrangle courtyard he noticed a tall bearded figure, dressed in flowing black robes, lolloping towards him. Rasputin grabbed the note from the equerries hand and hurriedly scanned the document. The mad monks face turned puce as he read the message and began to violently shake with rage. In moments the instruction to the Admiral of the Russian fleet was in tatters and thrown to the slush covered ground. Rasputin turned his back on the equerry and marched purposely towards the Czarinas suit of rooms, halting only to throw a verbal insult towards the guards marshalling the courtyard.
Later that day in a wet and windy Windsor, King George V of Sax-Coburg and Gotha, King of Great Britain and Emperor of India, plain Georgie to his family, stared at the papers in front of him and screamed in anguish at the governments minister for War, who was standing before him. His face was crimson with rage as he read the news that the Emperor of all the Russia's fleet was readying for war, and that the German Emperor was putting his Army on a war footing. His cousins were an infernal disgrace to the family, and it was now pertinent that he arrange to dismantle their Empires as soon as humanly possible.
Returning to Buckingham Palace with his retinue, Georgie urgently arranged a meeting with a cabal of close advisors and industrialists. The meeting was also to be attended by Lord Stanfordham and the late Randolph Churchills wayward son Winston, together with a young disaffected German Patent officer named Albert Einstein, and a idealistic East Prussian lawyer and civil servant by the name of Magnus Von Braun.
The meeting took place in the White Drawing room, and was also attended by the governments senior cabinet members, the heads of the War Office, the Admiral of the fleet, the head of the Secret service Bureau and the leading members of the parliamentary opposition.
Also at the meeting were Linus Goldsmidt and Ivan Terrablanche who were introduced to Georgie by Winston Churchill.
Linus Goldsmidt was a dangerous hypochondriac born in St Louis USA to a Flemish Huguenot mother and Prussian Jewish father hailing from the former Prussian port of Konigsberg. Goldsmidt was a diamond dealer who specialises in exotic stones from the Sahel region of Africa. He also dealt with opium and pygmy slaves, but preferred the trade in blood diamonds.
Ivan Terrablanche had "bank-rolled" nefarious operations across the whole of the middle east and South African territories. He was a shadowy figure who had his greedy hands in every underhand activity on the African continent since before the Boer war. Slaves to Arabia, drugs, Spices and pygmy prostitution, to name but a few of his endeavors. Terrablanche had first met Winston Churchill when he assisted the London Morning Post in helping their young reporter escape from the "Boers" in Pretoria South Africa.
To be continued.
