The Courtier From The 21st Century Who Would Be King : The King Behind The Throne : King Henry VIII (Alfred the Great II) : Ch.4 by Alfred Muggins (himself) The Real Henry VIII Finds His Feet In 21st Century England! Part 2

Part 2

29/5/21

    Henry ascertained that England (or Britain, as it was now known – together with its extensions into Scotland and Northern Ireland, since his own reign, had recently been in a ‘Union’ with France and all of old Burgundy and the various Netherlands, and the German Principalities, Bishoprics, and Electorates, as well as Viking Denmark, and Catherine, his first wife’s newly united Spain, and various other distant places beyond!

    They had actually formed an overarching Council, Parliament and shared revolving Ministerial positions, and even shared higher Law Courts! This amazing feat had been accomplished for at least 40 or 50 years, and there had been no real wars between any of these nations, principalities etc. for all this time! – not since1945 (a date which reminded him of his own inconclusive war with France in 1545! which was very recent in his memory), and the mysterious sinking of his great new ship the Mary Rose, which thankfully he had disembarked from before it sank so suddenly. Henry, a bit of a warmonger himself, wondered how they had managed to keep the peace between them for quite so long? (and all this had been done without having a Monarch to rule all of them! He supposed it had been a bit like the Holy Roman Empire, but without an Emperor, or a Pope to bind them together!)

    (He had been told there had been some real warfare a few years before, and quite a bit of razing and punishment, in what had been in his day the Turkish Balkans between the Eastern Orthodox Greek Church Serbians and the Turkish Muslim Bosnians and the Roman Catholic Croats, but these peoples and their rulers had all definitely been outside the European Union Empire, which had expanded to include some of those areas afterwards!)

    But now Britain had voted, it seemed (they had not been led by their rulers, but had voted! Of all things!) to leave this amazing Union which nonetheless became very bureaucratic apparently! – Henry smiled! He knew all about bureaucracies himself, having broken up quite a few, and created quite a few new ones, in his time (so far!).

    He had learned one thing in his reign, if he had learned anything :- that it was worth ‘smashing’ a few bureaucracies up and getting rid of their ringleaders from time to time, before they became too complacent, or took too much of the crown’s money off him! There was always new blood coming through, which could be used and motivated for his purpose, and England’s, of course!

    Anyway the point was :- Britain was no longer tied to Europe, just as it was separated by the English Channel, so if he was to get his crown back from those upstart Germans and their Parliaments, he might be able to take back France once again in some way, which was an achievement he and other English Kings had long sought, since the victories of Henry V at Agincourt, and at Crecy in the Hundred years War, and since the time of Henry’s forbears, the first Plantagenets of England, who had held large parts of what was now known as France.

    Somebody told him that the best way to get France back was to buy it up bit by bit, and to that purpose many Britons, with spare money, or the desire to retire in Green and Pleasant France (Peasant? Or Pheasant?) had been buying up the cheap Farmhouses, Manor Houses and Castles (Chateaux! Not to be confused with Gateaux! Or Croissants!) of France, as France’s own peasantry had fled to the cities for greater economic employment and advancement!

    If he was able to amass a large wealth here in the 21^st Century, (which might be difficult as the current German descended Royal House had all his erstwhile inherited, sequestrated, and collected wealth!) and hopefully be restored to his now extended Kingdom, he would certainly employ a stealthy programme of buying up as much of the French countryside as possible! Eventually they would surround the cities and he would rule the whole of France, along with Great Britain (and who knows once again all their erstwhile ‘colonies’?)

    Henry thought it was a very clever plan. Of course he didn’t care who he ruled; they could be English, Norman, Danish or French, as far as he cared, or as long as they gave him fealty, and even the Jewish race, although they should practice the religious doctrines of his rightful Church Of England ideally. They would come in handy to borrow money off or maybe even tax!

Footnote

2/6/21

Apparently the historically disinherited Jews had been doing this a lot (purchasing the land) in the last century (20^th) in Palestine in order to restore their ancient hegemony in that region, along with colonisation and takeover, somewhat like the Danes had settled large parts of England, and of course Henry’s own forbears themselves, the Normans, who had taken over the whole of England you might say in a very direct sort of war by pure conquest and brutal control!