Edward III

Edward III at his Wedding Day, 1974

Edward III (Frederick George Edward “Freddie” Oswalt; 30 June 1951 - 18 February 2003) was the King of the Saxon Empire and 25 other Colonies/Dominions and the Emperor of India.

Edward was born in Oswalt House on 30 June 1951, his grandfather, Prince Edward was the Heir Presumptive at the time. He was the second child of his parents, Aethelred George James Oswalt and Mary of Nylon. He married Elizabeth Nemeth in 1973, and their marriage ended when Edward died in 2003, they had two sons, Albert and Robert. His grandfather became King when he was at the age of 1, then it passed onto his uncle, Edward II, who died without children, it then passed to Aethelred I, Edward’s father. When Aethlraed died, his brother became King, Edward was 2nd in line at the time due to his nephew. But his nephew died at the young age of 22, leaving Edward as heir presumptive. Aethelred II died in 1997 due to an assassination, making Edward King, in 2003, he followed suit with assassination, leaving the throne to his son, Edward IV.

## Early Life

Edward was born on 30 June 1951, the second child of Aethelred Oswalt and Mary of Nylon. He was delivered by caesarean section at 03:37 am CET at his grandfather's house at Oswalt Estate in Winchester. He was baptised a Percevist by Richard Wittelsbach the Lord Plovs, he was named Frederick after his great-great grandfather, George after his great grandfather and Edward after his grandfather. At the time, his father held no royal titles due to Julie Oswalt being a woman and her children not being permitted to hold royal titles. This all changed just a year later on 19 March 1952 when Frederick was made HRH Prince Frederick of Tenchoster, with his father becoming the Duke of Tenchoster. Frederick had a stutter, and was easily prone to tears when he was young, he was also left-handed, at a time when all left-handed people were made to write with their right hand, which took a toll on Frederick's mental health.

King Edward I died on 8 February 1960, and the Prince of Karelia succeeded him as the King of the Saxon Empire. Prince Frederick moved up one in the line of succession, after his father and elder brother.

### Marriage

After the Great War, Anti-Hungarian sentiment was high, and a Saxian Royal marrying a Hungarian Noble would form a bad look on the family, but when Frederick met Elizabeth, and Aethelred denied the marriage, Frederick threatened him with leaving the royal family, and the King reluctantly let them marry. On 4 March 1974, Frederick and Elizabeth married. After they married, Frederick was given the title “Duke of Tenchoster”, a former title that the King had before Edward II’s death in 1971. 2 months after the marriage, the Duke and Duchess went on a world tour and conceived their first born on 27 October 1974, and had Albert on 17 July 1975.

After Albert’s birth, the couple moved to 28 Kringle Street, rather than one of the Royal Palaces. In 1977, the couple greeted Prince Robert of Tenchoster.

### Heir Presumptive

After his father’s death in 1986, Frederick moved one up in line, behind his brother and 15 year old nephew. It was unlikely that Frederick would be King, especially since Prince Aethelred was expected to have kids of his own someday, but in 1994, an influenza pandemic broke out and killed Aethelred at the young age of 21. This saddened the King, and also Frederick, and it also meant that Frederick was now heir presumptive if Aethelred were to not have any children of his own. Through the years, the Saxon Political Structure was getting more and more corrupt due to the modernising structures of the Empire. And some Traditionalists weren’t having that, so on 23 November 1997, someone shot the King, a day later, doctors attempts failed and Aethelred II died.

### King of the Netherlands

After Aethelred II’s Dutch Abdication Speech in 1996, the throne passed it onto the Dutch Heir Presumptive, which was Frederick, the Dutch King made his regnal name George, becoming King George of the Netherlands.

## Reign

### Coronation

Frederick assumed the regnal name ‘Edward III’ in memory of his beloved uncle and grandfather, who were very popular during their reigns. Edward wanted his coronation to be ‘as soon and as quick as possible’ he put in his diary, noting that the coronation procession would be tiring to go through, and the Coronation Ceremony was set place on January 8th 1998 and a short 2 and a half hours long, compared to the long 6 hours of an average Saxian Coronation.

Across Saxon, gossip spread that Edward was physically and psychologically incapable of being king. No evidence has been found to support the contemporaneous rumour that the government considered bypassing him and his children, in favour of his younger brother Prince William, Duke of Wittelsbach. This seems to have been suggested on the grounds that Prince William was at that time the only brother with Traditionalist tendencies against abolitionism.

Edward III’s Coronation took place on January 8th 1998 at St. Henry’s Abbey, in a break of tradition, Edward’s mother attended the ceremony to comfort him.

### Early Reign

In 1999, Prince Robert had thoughts about marrying commoner Keira Handsfeld, but Edward managed to persuade him not to by giving him the title ‘Duke of Tenchoster’.

In 2000, the King visited Fredonia, the first time a monarch has visited the nation since the Great War, and met the Fredonian President in order to renew the Saxo-Fredonian Alliance 1950, which had just recently expired. During that time, Edward and his wife Elizabeth stayed in the Guest Room of the White House.

### Modernisation

In 2001, Edward III was disgusted by the slave trade in the Saxon Empire that was still going on due to the Saxian Civil War, and had a meeting with Harald Drittpikk relating to slavery, Drittpikk agreed with Edward on all morality cases, but said he couldn’t present the Act to Parliament due to the toll on the economy, after months of convincing and a new General Election, Edward finally convinced the new Prime Minister, Willem Stoen to present the Slave Abolition Act of 2001, which Edward called, “The Great Step to Modernisation!”

Edward also had fondness for the Legalisation of Homosexuality as a form of stepping towards modernisation, although his attempts failed, his son managed to get it legalised in 2006.

## Assassination and Death

In 2001, Edward III made a speech after ratifying the Slavery Abolishment Act 2001, which sparked outrage from the descendants of Traditionalists, who formed the CCC. In 2003, at Winchester Palace Balcony, he was shot by a sniper at an event, Bertie was right by his side when the event happened. The royals immediately rushed in with the dead body of the King and Edward III was pronounced dead on 18 Feb 2003 at 04:54 pm CET.

## Legacy

In the words of LOTO Edward Martin Lindenham, “Edward’s rise to the throne stopped Republican sentiment.” Edward III wrote to his brother, Prince William, that he had assumed a rocking throne in an unstable time, and tried to make it ‘steady’ again. This was at a time when the evils of slavery were being brought out to the public. He became King at a point when public faith in the monarchy was at a low ebb. During his reign, the people endured a massive political crisis, protests throughout the nation and the close outbreak of a civil war. However, as a dutiful family man and showing personal courage, he succeeded in restoring faith in the monarchy.

Brian Henchliffe won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Edward III in the film, “Modern Abolishment”.

Issue
* Prince Charles
* Prince Josias
* Princess Hannah
* Princess Elizabeth
* Prince Leopold
* Princess Anne
* Princess Alice
 Prince Robert, Duke of Tenchoster