Buckingham Palace has described the ‘Magna Carta’ memo leaked to and published in The Times as an ‘unsolicited document that has had nothing to do with the government at all’. Speaking from the top of one of a series of tanks rolling down the Mall led by Her Majesty, a spokesperson for the Crown said that the memo had been commissioned by an external set of barons and lords, not by anyone in the Royal Household. The memo suggests the movement towards a constitutional monarchy and principles such as a powerful Parliament would require the employment of thousands of civil servants and representatives.

Nonetheless, the claims made have created shockwaves across the country which is reeling from the constitutional challenges posed by the memo. Already, thousands of so-called ‘commoners’ are heading towards the great homes of the remaining hereditary gentry to pledge their allegiance and till their fields in reverence to the new sovereignty of this great monarchical and feudalistic country. Crucially, the memo poses significant issues on the matter of devolution, with war breaking out on the new ‘Caledonian’ border of the River Tweed.

Meanwhile, the Palace continued to reject the charge that promises had been made on the side of a tank about the introduction of the principle of habeas corpus, dismissing them as nothing but mere possibilities not firm policy commitments, before kidnapping some of the press gathered.

—Henry Dyer