William Edwardius III
| William Edwardius III Phyu Thawdar Myitzu (ဖ္ယု ထဝ္ဒရ မ္ယိတ္ဇု) | |||||||||
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| King of Bethausia | |||||||||
| Reign | 23 August 2010 - Present | ||||||||
| Predecessor | William Edwardius II | ||||||||
| Prime Minister | Aeindra Inzali Zin Kyaw | ||||||||
| Born | 18 August 1985 Kengkaw, Kengkaw Central Royal Administrative Region, Bethausia | ||||||||
| Spouse | Caroline, Queen of Bethausia | ||||||||
| Issue | Prince William Edwardius Prince Albert Emmanuel Princess Sophia of Bethausia | ||||||||
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| House | Konbaung-Seppayilä-Caelum | ||||||||
| Father | William Edwardius II | ||||||||
| Mother | Theingi Yi, Duchess Consort of Bethausia | ||||||||
William Edwardius III (18 August 1985), known by the native Bethausians as Phyu Thawdar Myitzu (Barmian: ဖ္ယု ထဝ္ဒရ မ္ယိတ္ဇု), is the current King of Bethausia.
William Edwardius III was born in Kengkaw on 18 August 1985. He succeeded his father William Edwardius II on 23 August 2010. Since before his ascension to the throne, William Edwardius III harbored and expressed discontent with the reactionary faction of the Tatmadaw, which held a majority of the military-appointed seats in the Assembly. He initiated secret talks with the military's progressive faction alongside various supporting political parties in officially dismantling the Tatmadaw's political party, the Union Preservation and Development Party, and made the announcement in his Cooldown Speech in mid-2015. It earned the ire from the reactionary military officers, especially from the new Chairman of the UDPD, Senior General Kaung Thura Kan. On 10 April 2016, ten days after the outbreak of the FUA Crisis, William Edwardius III was ousted by a coup d'état that drove him and his government south to Paungthoung, triggering the Bethausian Civil War. He would continue to reign in the aforementioned city until the Liberation of Kengkaw in 2020. After the war, William enacted numerous prerogatives that helped to recover the entire nation and return it to its state before the war. He also enacted a law that declared the Kwansarpyishu, a paramilitary wing of the State Reconstruction, Development and Preservation Council, a terrorist organization, and authorized covert operations in search of their leaders. Most importantly, he assented political reforms via the Military Political Relief Act of 2020 which permanently abolished the Tatmadaw's political authority.