Chapter 632: The Descendants of Princess Sissi
The current Principality of Liechtenstein is in ruins, which were destroyed twice during the Napoleonic Wars. One of the first things Princess Sissi's husband, Franz Joseph I, did when he was crowned Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was to re-divide the area to the House of Liechtenstein.
The Emperor not only financed the re-establishment of Liechtenstein, but also supported and helped Liechtenstein to become a sovereign state, which was clearly defined in the form of legal principles. Later, after two world wars, European countries independently drove the nobility to form republics, and the Liechtenstein family lost most of their fiefdoms, only this one was preserved because of the clear legal principles and indisputable world, so they hid in this paradise to avoid the war, and survived to this day.
Next, Franz Joseph I helped the Grimaldi family, who had lost their fiefdoms driven by Napoleon, to retake Monaco, and gave Moneaco armed asylum in the face of the powerful France.
Without the righteousness of Franz Joseph I, there would be no two small countries in the world, Liechtenstein and Monaco. Although the country is small, it is the most precious foundation of their two families. The late two Grand Dukes left the family rule to future generations: generations of allegiance to His Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I and his descendants.
After receiving the edict, the two heads of the family vowed to fulfill the last wish of the emperor and made a blood alliance. From then on, the two families began to secretly search for Hubert in war-torn Europe.
After the death of Franz Joseph I, Karl I, the son of Archduke Ferdinand, became the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Two years after his accession to the throne, with the defeat of the Central Powers and the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was a thing of the past, and the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty officially collapsed.
Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine, the current head of the Habsburgs, was the eldest son of Karl I.
The Liechtenstein and Grimaldi families, the royal families of Liechtenstein and Monaco, finally found Grace Meredith, 51, and Hubert Joseph, 33, on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, four years after the end of World War I.
In the 33 years of her escape, Grace has not remarried, she is strong and beautiful, she raised Hubert alone in the midst of displacement, and the carvings of the years of hardship made her look at least ten years older, but she still can't hide her beautiful charm. During the first 10 years of their initial escape, Grace and Hubert Jr. escaped many pursuits, and even lived in the snow and ice of the Arctic Circle in Finland for several years.
Hubert Jr., the infant grandson of the emperor, also grew into a handsome and capable young man, who fought in the recent First World War, as an infantry captain in Italy, a member of the Entente, against his father, Austria-Hungary. A few years ago, he was discharged from the army in fear of his mother, and took his mother to a small Mediterranean fishing village that was relatively peaceful.
When the two royal families approached them, Hubert ran a small fishing farm here, and although the income was not very good, it was enough for the mother and son to make a good living. The only regret is that Hubert's wife died of illness last year, and the two have not had time to have children.
Hubert inherited his mother's resolute and courageous character, but also inherited his hatred for the Habsburgs. The two royal families of Liechtenth and Monaco took great pains to show the edict left by the emperor and the handwritten decree of Princess Sissi, which convinced the mother and son that it was not the imperial grandfather and the imperial grandmother who did not want them, but that there were wicked people who were responsible for it.
Although the First World War was over, the whole of Europe was still clouded, and Adolf Hitler had become the head of the German ** party. All countries are actively preparing for war, and the flames of war are on the verge of breaking out. In order to avoid military service, Hubert and his mother followed the advice of Archduke Alois of Liechtenstein and moved the family to Vaduz, the capital of Liechtenstein, a valley country.
According to the edict of the first emperor, the Archduke of Liechtenton, as the posthumous edict, canonized the grandson of Emperor Franz Joseph I as the Archduke of Austria in Austria-Hungary, hereditary replacement, and Hubert also became the last Grand Duke of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which no longer existed. Grace Meredith was made a baroness of the Austro-By-Hungarian Empire, and was made a marquiss two years later.
The Grand Duke of Liechtenstein married his most beautiful daughter, the 19-year-old Duchess Margaret, to the widowed Hubert. Three years later, Princess Margaret gave birth to her and her husband's only son, Ludwig Joseph, and they have since had three more daughters.
Although the affection of the Imperial Grandfather and Sissi was clarified, Archduke Hubert resolutely refused to forgive the rest of the Habsburg family, refusing to use the Habsburg-Lorraine surname for himself and his descendants, and instead only adopted the Christian name 'Joseph' of the great imperial grandfather and scumbag father as his own surname and that of his descendants.
In order to cover up Archduke Ferdinand's crimes, the Habsburgs also refused to recognize Hubert, who was an illegitimate child and a commoner, and declared that they would not let him recognize his ancestors. This decision was made by the current head of the family, Otto, the son of the last emperor Karl, and the Austrian Grand Duke Otto. Otto's title was also 'Archduke of Austria', of course from his father's bounty.
Even if Hubert and his mother were officially knighted, Otto did not bother at all, because the evil Archduke Ferdinand was his own grandfather.
But by this time, the Habsburgs had long since decayed, and under the pressure of the European powers, they had no influence and no place to stand. The royal families of Liechtentown and Monaco ignored Otto, who valued the legacy of the gracious Emperor above.
Hubert severed ties with the Habsburgs, and the two royal families regarded him and his descendants as the most descendant of the Habsburg royal family.
In 1952, the Marquess of Grace Meredith, a commoner, died at the age of 81.
In 1955, 30-year-old Ludwig Joseph, the great-grandson of Princess Sissi, married Countess Gladys Heslet, a branch of the Monaco royal family and the Belgian royal family, and they gave birth to a daughter Sophia five years after marriage, but unfortunately Sophia died of the flu when she was less than two years old.
In 1964, Count Ludwig and Princess Gladyse gave birth to a son, Frank Joseph, and two years later a daughter, Ophelia Josephine.
In 1971, Archduke Hubert Joseph died at the age of 82 and his son Ludwider succeeded to the Austrian archdukeship. Duchess Margaret died the following year.
In 1980, under the pressure of the old European aristocracy and various royal families, the Habsburgs pinched their noses and recognized the identity of the Huberts, agreed to their ancestors, and agreed to their family names. It's just that Grand Duke Ludwig is not uncommon, and directly slaps the head of the family, Otto, with a nose that is not a nose and a face.
The royal families and large families persuaded Ludwig to reinstate his surname in order to continue the lineage of His Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1985, Archduke Ludwig finally agreed to reinstate the Habsburg-Lorraine surname for the sake of the former emperor and Sissi. At this point, Joseph's family, which had been in exile for nearly a hundred years, officially returned to the Habsburgs.
Later, in order to appease the anger, the head of the family, Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine, returned to Hubert's descendants many of the possessions that belonged to His Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I and Princess Sissi, including the courtyard at the end of Florentine's Flower Lane.
In 1986, Sissi's great-grandson, Frank Joseph, married Matilda Arabella from the House of Orange, France, and they met while attending university at Trinity College in Cambridge. A year earlier, Frank's sister, Ophelia Josephine, had been married off by his college classmates, the flamboyant Andrew from the Swinburn family. They gave birth to Jefferin Swinburn less than half a year after they got married.
On August 8, 1989, Christine Josephine, the sixth grandson of Princess Sissi and daughter of Count Frank Joseph, was born. On January 8, 1995, Countess Ophelia gave birth to Midel Swinburn.
In 1997, Archduke Ludwig Joseph, her grandfather, died, and her father inherited the title of Grand Duke of Austria. In 2001, Coco's grandmother, the Marquis de Gladys, died.
In 2000, at the age of 11, she was made a countess by the Liechtenstein royal family, and on 8 August 2002, on her 13th birthday, the Monaco royal family made her countess. On the same day, 17-year-old Zhuo Yang boarded a flight to Frankfurt, Germany, in Beijing and began his study abroad career. Three months later, he and she met on the banks of the Hanover Canal.
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This is the origin and life history of the Coco family, the huge family and the weak individual, the torrent of the times and the wheel of history, many elements are intertwined, Zhuo Yang deeply sighed for this story.
"Zhuo Yang, after listening to our family's story, what do you think?" Coco asked him with a smile.
Zhuo Yang's answer made Kou Ko very satisfied.
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