Four hundred and ninetieth nine chapters twenty-fourth grand duke
Seeing William's confident look, Lina quickly calmed down. The title had returned to her home. As long as William didn't blame her for plotting against the old earl and thinking that her mother was a vicious woman and alienating her, Lina really didn't care about the rest.
"It's best if you understand. Let's go quickly, lest it be rude to be late." Lina took her son's arm and arrived at the White King Palace in less than ten minutes this time.
Before he got off the carriage, he saw Wilson in a straight dress standing outside the main entrance waiting for him.
The carriage was stable. William got out of the car and stretched out his hand to shake Wilson's hand, who was smiling, and then helped Lina get out of the carriage.
"Good morning, Mrs. Devonshire," Wilson greeted Lena with a smile, and Lena glared at William and curtsied to Wilson.
William rolled his eyes when he saw it, and his eye-rolling action was quickly captured by the camera and spread to the eyes of thousands of viewers.
Many viewers who were mothers were immediately moved by William's inadvertent eye roll, while many loyal supporters of the royal family were dissatisfied that William just did not salute Wilson, who had a higher status than him.
In their hearts, William is already an earl. Even if he cannot bow, he should at least nod.
What made them even more unbearable was that William actually reached out his hand before Wilson, and Wilson didn't look unhappy at all and held William's hand.
It is as if William's Archduke of Cambridge and Wilson were the Earl of Oxford.
However, the ideas of these people have no influence on William. Anyone who wants him to salute Wilson should go to hell. Even if he can really be promoted to the title of Duke, if Philip asks him to kneel down, he will definitely give up the title of Duke.
But to William's chagrin, his eye-rolling expression had become an Internet meme the next day, and many people would use this expression to mock others in the future, which made him want to delete it immediately.
Seeing Lina curtsy to him, Wilson hurriedly smiled and stretched out his hand to shake Lina's hand. Then he immediately helped Lina up and whispered something in her ear, which made Lina laugh and laugh back.
Patted his arm.
This made the people in front of the TV curious about what Wilson said to make Lina so happy, and the patting on his arm seemed to mean comfort.
It's a pity that Lina and Wilson were talking with their backs to the camera. Even if they wanted to use lip reading, they couldn't interpret it. However, when they saw William helplessly scratching his eyebrows with his fingers later, everyone guessed that it must be related to William.
Wilson is filing a complaint against William to Lina.
"Let's go, mom, don't be fooled by this kid." William looked at Wilson helplessly. You bastard actually told Lina that she wanted Lina to protect him, and also spread rumors that William would definitely cause trouble for him after today.
"OK. OK, William, you can't bully Wilson. He is two years younger than you, so you have to give in to him."
The mother and Wilson, who asked him to order, rolled their eyes and ignored the chatter and laughter, took the lead in approaching the main entrance, and were led by the old housekeeper they had seen a few days ago to the honors hall.
What surprised William was that except for a 2-meter passage in the middle, the entire hall was almost full of people.
When everyone saw William coming in, they all took the initiative to applaud him. Two knights wearing standard knight uniforms and sabers walked up to William, saluted, and stretched out their hands to greet him.
He followed the two knights step by step. Looking around, he quickly discovered that most of the crowd were the people he had saved in Westminster Abbey a few days ago.
When I walked to the front row, I also saw France's Kellner Bacon and Germany's Agnes. I even saw the German Archduke who was rumored to be in very bad health.
After nodding to the three smiling people, William stood in front of Philip, without looking at the cushion with small armrests at his feet.
Of course William knew the role of the mat and the small armrest. The mat was for the nobles to kneel on. The small armrest on the right side of the mat was for the kneeling person to hold on to the armrest so that he could maintain balance when kneeling straight, in case the king was holding a knight's sword.
When the nobleman was slapped twice on the shoulders, he shook his body and was scratched by the sword.
"Well, even if you don't want to follow tradition, at least you have to keep your head down. I'm not as tall as you, Earl Devonshire," Philip said with a smile.
The appearance of this mat made William a little confused. Today he only inherited the title of Earl of Oxford and was not newly conferred a title. Not only did he not have to slap two swords on his shoulders, let alone move the kneeling mat.
The bow was acceptable to William. After all, this kind of ceremony is very common in modern times. He took a half step back and only bent his waist about 30 degrees.
Many people watching the scene wanted to laugh but did not dare to laugh.
If someone doesn't mind, then there must be someone who does. It's just that it's not convenient to question out loud in this situation.
Looking at William who was bending over, Philip hesitated for a moment.
But seeing the childish face in front of me, I remembered that this child not only stood in front of me to save me, but also earned a net worth of 30 billion US dollars at the age of less than 20 years old.
The scruples in Philip's heart were quickly put aside. The benefits to the nobles of wooing William were far greater than the false courtesy of kneeling to him.
I silently thought to myself that the difficulty facing the royal family is no longer a question of whether to kneel or not, but a question of whether it can survive for a long time.
Now that William, a super moneymaker, has joined, people all over the world will have to re-examine the English aristocratic system from today on.
After thinking about this, Philip turned around and picked up the knight's sword from the tray held by the attendant behind him, solemnly patted William twice on the shoulder and said,
"William Devonshire, in the name of the king, upon the recommendation of the new first Richard and all cabinet members, I officially grant you the title of Archduke of Oxford,"
"What?" William was shocked. He couldn't help but raise his eyelids and glance at Philip with a solemn face. Before he could think more,
Philip continued, "In recognition of your outstanding contribution to Britain and the entire capital world twelve days ago, from today on, you are the most trustworthy and beloved partner of everyone in Britain."
Putting down the sword in his hand, Philip looked at everyone in the hall and asked, "Do you have any objection to this?"
No one spoke for a while, and Philip said with satisfaction, "Well, William Devonshire, congratulations on your official becoming the 24th hereditary Grand Duke of the British Isles."
After speaking, Philip picked up the archduke's round hat from the tray held by an archbishop and put it on William's head with his own hands.
The real title of Grand Duke hit him on the head, which made William a little confused, who was unprepared. He didn't react until Philip patted him on the shoulder, and he bent down to salute in confusion.
Fortunately, when he saw the mat used for kneeling under his nose, William woke up after his head was hit, and his slightly bent legs immediately stood up straight.
Philip who was watching and everyone behind him who could see his movements laughed softly.
"You are lucky, son," Philip patted William on the shoulder again. "If you hadn't saved most of the people in this hall, even if you had the support of leaders from other countries, you wouldn't have been able to become a Grand Duke.
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What's even more fortunate is that the newly-appointed British Prime Minister Richard nominated me to grant you the hereditary title of Grand Duke. Otherwise, even if everyone here and I agree, you still have no chance of becoming a Grand Duke. So, my child, you won't really be.
God's illegitimate son."
"Haha", William spread his hands, "I can only ask the one in heaven."
"Well, I may have to wait a long time to find out about this issue," Philip said with a smile, "Richard asked me to tell you that he is clear with you."