At the onset of the brutal Twentieth Century, although Great Britain remained the richest and most powerful nation on Earth, the seeds of its pending decline had already been sowed. Conflicts throughout its vast possessions stretching from India to South Africa and the Sudan, along with the rise of American and Prussian military-industrial Might, gradually challenged the Empire’s powerful but gentle predominance… Yet, the British aristocracy remained discussing world issues in London, either meeting at Whitehall or attending Garden tea-parties, unable to conceive and/or concede the remote possibility that their Days of Glory were numbered and that their Brilliant Monarchy was quickly declining into the dusty pages of History…
Despite their refusal to acknowledge or recognize London’s inescapable decline, the inevitable downfall of Empire became irrefutable as soon as the deadly guns of the Great War became “loud and clear”, thereby triggering countless strikes and the eventually loss of colonies, wealth and prestige…
Meanwhile, the equally powerful ‘eagles’ of the Prussian Hohenzollern's’, Russian Romanov's’ and Austro-Hungarian Hapsburg's fell (one after another), as their Empires not only experienced a decline but were completely eliminated from the World Arena, along with the less prestigious, but equally charming Brazilian Empire which, in 1889 was replaced by a lame republic while its brilliant Emperor Pedro II of Orleans e Bragança was sent to exile in Paris…
This blog represents a refuge for any and all ‘lost souls’ who remain longing for the glorious days of the Great European Empires (and/or its minor South American equivalent in Brazil) of the Nineteenth Century – the apex of Reason, Science and Western Civilization!
