In the aftermath of the Third Global War, many established governments fell. Britain, groaning under massive reparations suffered massive hyperinflation. The monarchy was overthrown in 1893, and a new Republic of Great Britain and Ireland proclaimed. This republic had a centralized administration, destroying the autonomy of Scotland and Ireland, and highly Anglocentric. Long-simmering ethnic strife exploded to the fore. Ireland declared independence, soon to be followed by Scotland. Scotland invited Princess Maria Theresa of Rhineland (wife of the Rhinelandish prince Ludwig, later King Ludwig II, and heir to the Stuart claim) to be Queen of Scots. The British government in London threatened to invade the breakaway nations, but a coalition of the victorious powers forced them to back down.