[*]October 1963, The Fuhrer of the Greater German Reich, Adolf Hitler, dies.
[*]In the week following, mass demonstrations celebrating the death of the Fuhrer escalate. While initially spontaneous, HMMLR (Her Majesty's most Loyal Resistance) activates cells to use the growing wave of open dissent to increase tension and put pressure on the government.
[*]On the 7th of November, 1963, a mixture of armed police and royalist soldiers are deployed to disperse a demonstration at Piccadilly Gardens, Central Manchester. After a tense standoff between the protesters and security forces, they open fire on the crowd. Some 100 people were killed that night, in what is dubbed "The Second Peterloo". As a result, the weekly demonstrations against the government accelerate and intensify. Protesters build barricade and soon cut of the city connection with outer world
[*]Within a week, a crowd led by HMMLR agents storm Newcastle's City Hall, proclaiming a "Free England". The active insurgency against the Kingdom of England had begun.
[*]After the proclamation of Free England, the TUC declares a General Strike throughout the United Kingdom, many collieries, factories, offices, and ports shut down. While many strikes, especially in Southern England, are peacefully or violently ended by the Royalist Regime, the Northern metropoles of Teeside, Merseyside and Greater Manchester soon have events like Newcastle and declare themselves loyal to Free England. In Birmingham, police lose effective control as Royalist & Fascist militias face off against Democratic and Communist cells of the HMMLR.
[*]By early 1964, half of the country is in active rebellion, as emigré & volunteers and HMMLR sympathizer from Scotland and Wales stream into the country to fight against the Royalist regime, bringing along with them plentiful arms. The Royalist regime has lost control of almost all land North of the Humber & Mersey, with it either being under the control of the Free English Government, or in a state of de facto anarchy. Many areas come under the control of local police, who while nominally sympathetic to the royalist regime, see the change in wind and choose not to actively resist the Free English Regime and even supported them.
[*]In April of 1964, the German Garrison in the West Country official announces its intention to leave and fight for "The Security of the Fatherland", although leaving some battalion to help the Royalist ; it would later come to light that after Goring increasingly momentum against Bormann and Heydrich forces managed to defeat Speer , Franz Halder chose to fight for Borman against the SS. Their withdrawal is an immense loss of morale and material for the Royalist Regime.
[*]The lack of garrison in Cornwall leads to rebellions in Bristol in favour of Free England; one actually devoid of HMMLR intervention. Bristol's rejection of Royalist troops causes mass desertions and a growing number of rural constabularies to take control away from the regime in London.
[*]All throughout this period, an urban insurgency in London has been undertaken by HMMLR, Fenian Brotherhood, Red Hand and Communist guerrillas. Unable to openly fight the Royalist regime, they opt for tactics akin to the IRA in the Irish War of independence: strategic assasination and general denial of authority. In the chaos, organised crime flourishes as police oversight and control in many areas becomes impossible: most notable of these are the Kray Twins.
[*]Eventually by November 1964, under eroding authority outside of the city, and growing violence against the regime in it, the Royalist government collapses. HRH Edward flees with his wive for Sweden, as many ministers and MPs flee the government. Some flees to Sweden and some flees to Iberia. Soon after, the Royalist Army chain of command collapses, as General Bernard Montgomery cannot be found.
[*]In a public address, Claude Auchenleck, MP for Hampshire, reveals himself to be "Number 1", the commander of HMMLR. He proclaims a former Free English government under himself, William Alexander, and David Stirling in london. He announces elections set for May 1965.
[*]Under this Triumvirate, rule-by-decree is declared to stabilise the nation. All sitting MPs, bar no exception, are banned from entering parliament again. A jury of 12, composed of various HMMLR higher-ups , is selected to trial various high ranking government officials. Gross offenders like AK Chesterton are given the death sentence, for the extrajudicial killings committed by the "Special Branch" secret police and the "Blackshirt" state-backed paramilitaries. High ranking civilians like Harold MacMillian are given lengthy sentences or Hard Labour for corruption and collusion with the enemy, although due to the geriatric nature of the royalist regime, many of them face only house arrest. Some elements of the "Traitor's Parliament" such as Reginald Mauding are released without conviction, though are forced to go into exile in America or Sweden. General Montgomery is later found at a hotel, hiding with several of the remaining General of the Royalist Army, He soon charged with a death sentence, but because of his old age, the sentence was changed into Life Sentence. Some MPs, like Margret Thatcher, are never found or suspected to be hiding in the vast British countryside .
[*]Various decrees are made to construct a semblance of a state and setting forth new elections, although most are temporary. One longterm one, however, establishes a "Young Democracy Law", giving the Triumvirate the legal right to suspend a government should fail to "uphold british democracy and british sovereignty". The three promise only to enact it to prevent a new Royalist Regime or another form of tyranny. They all also agree to never seek the role of MP nor the title of Prime Minister.
