The morning air in Paris still carried the stifling heat of midsummer.
Outside the window, the rumble of carriage wheels and the cries of street vendors on Saint Honore Street intertwined into a single clamor.
Arthur, wrapped in his dressing gown and holding a cup of black tea, sat at his desk; spread out before him was the freshly delivered Constitutional Newspaper.
"The Constitutional Crisis of the Kingdom of Hanover"
Since mid‑June, the political situation in the Kingdom of Hanover had undergone sudden upheaval.
With the death of King William IV, his niece Victoria acceded to the throne, while the Crown of Hanover, in accordance with the Salic Law, was placed upon the head of the Duke of Cumberland, Ernst August. From that moment, the thrones of Britain and Hanover diverged, and the relationship of Personal Union between Hanover and Britain came to an end.
