Chapter seven hundred and seventy-ninth bad father-son relationship
Jérôme Bonaparte and Prince Albert, who had chatted all the way, arrived at the Louvre Hotel at 11:55. From the carriage, Prince Albert pointed at the Louvre Hotel and looked at Jérôme Bonaparte in confusion. Napart, as if asking Jérôme what Bonaparte meant.
"The Grand Hotel du Louvre, the best hotel in Paris!" Jérôme Bonaparte introduced the Louvre Hotel to Prince Albert, and then invited Prince Albert and others to enter the hotel.
When Jérôme Bonaparte and his wife Victoria entered the lobby of the hotel together, Emile Perel, a shareholder of Société Générale and the boss behind the Luxembourg Hotel, and all the hotel staff stood upright in two rows to greet the French Imperial Monarch and The monarch of the Kingdom of Britain bowed.
"This is Mr. Emil Perel, the manager of the entire hotel!
"Jérôme Bonaparte enthusiastically introduced Mr. Emile Perel to Albert and Victoria.
"Your Majesty the Queen, Your Royal Highness the Prince!" Emile Perel once again bowed slightly to Prince Albert and Queen Victoria.
"Mr. Emile, I have long admired you!" Prince Albert stretched out his hand and said to him with a smile.
"Your Highness, you are extremely flattering!" Emile Perel stretched out his hand and shook Prince Albert's hand tightly with a flattered look on his face.
"How could it be! I have heard of Mr. Emil Perel's name for a long time!" Prince Albert then said to Emil Perel: "It only took five years for you and your brother to establish the Industrial Bank. In just a short time, I have become one of the major banks in France! I am afraid I will never be able to achieve this skill in my lifetime!"
"Your Highness, as the saying goes, there is a specialty!" Emile Perel humbly said to Prince Albert: "My brother and I only relied on government policies and temporary luck to get to this point!
But you and Her Majesty the Queen are monarchs who formulate policies. Without monarchs who formulate policies, where would we be today?"
With a smile on his face, Prince Albert quietly listened to Emile Perel's compliments.
Queen Victoria, who was standing next to Prince Albert, also smiled and said softly: "You French bankers are so eloquent!"
"Your Majesty, the essential job of a banker is not to deal with customers and meet their needs! If we lose even the most basic communication, then our bank may be at risk of collapse before the next day!" Emile Perel still responded humbly to Queen Victoria.
At this moment, Jérôme Bonaparte interrupted the mutual compliments between the two parties, "Okay! Everyone, stop complimenting each other! Dinner time is almost here!"
Emile Perel hurriedly brought the Victoria couple and Jérôme Bonaparte couple to a Baroque-style restaurant on the third floor of the Louvre Hotel.
Jérôme Bonaparte and Victoria entered the restaurant and sat at the round dining table under the arrangement of Emile Perel.
The round dining table has a total of 18 seats. Jérôme Bonaparte and Prince Albert sat together, Victoria and Augusta sat together, and Victoria's children were arranged on the other side of the round table.
After everyone was seated, Jérôme Bonaparte took another look at the place sitting two empty seats away from him. He smiled and waved to Albert Edward: "Edward, come here too!"
Albert Edward just stood up when he heard Jérôme Bonaparte's call, and suddenly looked at Prince Albert, who was slightly unhappy on his face. He sat down again?
"Jerome, just let Edward sit there!" Prince Albert said to Jerome Bonaparte with a serious expression.
"Albert, you can't educate children like this!" Jérôme Bonaparte responded to Prince Albert, "And Edward is already fifteen years old, he is already half an adult! Many people in the countryside
When the child is as old as him, he will be almost married!"
"But I don't see the slightest trace of an adult in his words and deeds! He is always so frivolous..." Prince Albert couldn't help but replied to Jérôme Bonaparte.
Albert Edward felt an unprecedented sense of grievance when he heard that his father, Albert, was so merciless in the eyes of outsiders. He also wanted to make his father and mother proud, and he also wanted to study hard.
But he discovered that he was not the material for studying at all.
No matter how hard I study, I still can't compare with my sister.
And his father and mother always compared his sister with him, which really made him feel very uncomfortable.
"Stop!" Jérôme Bonaparte forcibly interrupted Prince Albert's speech, and then said to Prince Albert: "Albert, in addition to making them rebellious, your educational methods also
It is easy to make oneself feel psychologically uncomfortable. (Prince Albert in history died of a cold after going to Cambridge to talk with his son)
I still said what I said before, we must admit that sometimes it does require a certain amount of talent!
Children only need to do not do anything inappropriate, and that’s it!
For myself, I don’t expect my son to surpass myself.
I just hope he can spend his life happily!
So don’t put too much pressure on him!”
After saying that, Jerome Bonaparte waved to Albert Edward, "Come here! There is no need to be afraid of your father!"
Albert Edward came to him at the beckoning of Jerome Bonaparte. He lowered his head and did not dare to look at his father.
"Sit next to me!" Jérôme Bonaparte patted the seat next to him and said to Albert Edward.
Albert Edward slowly sat next to Jérôme Bonaparte, and this was the first time he felt a warm feeling.
After a while, Emile Perel appeared in the restaurant again.
At this moment, he was holding an opened bottle of wine in his hand.
"Your Majesty, let me pour the wine for you!" Emile Perel filled the glasses with red wine for them in turn, and then poured it for several princes and princesses at the instruction of Jérôme Bonaparte.
Freshly squeezed juice.
As the dishes filled the entire table, Jerome Bonaparte raised his glass and said to Albert and Victoria: "To the friendship between Britain and France, cheers! Children, you can join us!"
Victoria, Albert and their children, at Jérôme Bonaparte's call, raised their glasses in a toast to the friendship between England and France.
After a glass of wine, Jérôme Bonaparte and others began to eat.
The whole banquet lasted for about an hour. After the meal, Jérôme Bonaparte asked Albert where he wanted to go besides going to the World Expo. He and Augusta both
Be able to accompany them there!
"It's not necessary!" Prince Albert shook his head and refused, "I don't want to cause you too much trouble!"
"Albert, aren't we friends!" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Albert.
"Friends, of course!" Prince Albert replied to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Since we are friends, there is no need for trouble!" Jérôme Bonaparte then responded to Prince Albert.
"Okay!" Prince Albert nodded, and he turned his attention to his wife Victoria, "Victoria, is there any place you particularly want to go to?"
After Victoria thought for a moment, she said that she wanted to go to Les Invalides in Paris and the Palace of Versailles...
"Okay!" Jérôme Bonaparte nodded and said to Victoria. Then he glanced at Albert Edward and the children sitting opposite and asked in a friendly tone, "Where do you want to go?"
The children didn't speak, and they didn't know where to go.
"The children only need to stay with us!" Prince Albert said to Jérôme Bonaparte?
"Okay then!" Jérôme Bonaparte shrugged his shoulders.
Later, Jérôme Bonaparte called Emile Perel over and ordered him to properly arrange the residences of Victoria and the princes.
If anything went wrong, Jérôme Bonaparte was the only one to ask questions.
Emile Perel said that he would make arrangements for Queen Victoria and the others properly.
Then, Jérôme Bonaparte said goodbye to Albert and said that he would come early tomorrow morning to pick them up and go to the Century Exposition together.
Prince Albert and Queen Victoria personally delivered Jérôme Bonaparte and Augusta to the hotel gate, and Jérôme Bonaparte and Augusta left the Louvre Hotel in a carriage.
On the way back to the Tuileries Palace, Empress Augusta told Jérôme Bonaparte what Victoria had discussed with her in the carriage.
"Victoria asked me if I would like to marry them!" Queen Augusta said to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Marriage?" Jérôme Bonaparte was stunned for a moment, "I remember that Victoria's youngest daughter was only 7 years older than our son!"
"Who says otherwise!" Queen Augusta replied to Jérôme Bonaparte.
"Have you promised them?" Jérôme Bonaparte asked Augusta again.
Augusta shook his head and said: "No! I said at the time, wait until the children grow up before considering these things!"
"It would be nice if it didn't happen! It would be nice if it didn't happen!" Jérôme Bonaparte muttered in a low voice.
He didn't want the Victoria family's hemophilia to be passed on to the next generation.