The Courtyard Crisis was a constitutional conflict between the Swedish king and prime minister and significant event in Swedish 20th-century history, marking the last time the Monarch of Sweden directly intervened in a controversial partisan political issue, as was done by the King Gustaf V through the Courtyard Speech at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on 6 February 1914, in front of 32 000 assembled farmers from all over the country, in which he argued for higher military spending. Wikipedia