Golden Greenery

Rudolph is so handsome and so popular with girls.

Rudolf's father is the handsome Emperor Franz Joseph I, and his mother is Princess Sissi, who has the most beautiful long chestnut hair, the most upright posture, and the most beautiful face. It would be strange if he didn't look good. . There is no need to rely on his noble status as the crown prince of the empire. Rudolf can dazzle countless beautiful girls just by his appearance.

At the age of 21, Crown Prince Rudolf of the Austro-Hungarian Empire married Archduchess Stephanie, the daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium, but he did not love her. This was just a common political marriage for the royal family. After getting married, Daofu continued to have contacts with many lovers.

When Rudolf was 30 years old, he met the 17-year-old Baroness Marivisela from the Czech Republic. The two fell in love at first sight and fell in love like glue. Rudolf even asked his father and even the Pope if he could divorce Stephanie and marry Mary. Not surprisingly, he was scolded like a dog.

In 188, Rudolf, who had a fierce quarrel with his father over this matter, made an appointment with Mary to go to the "Meyerling" hunting lodge on the outskirts of Vienna. He bought it specially for her and it was also the honey nest of their love.

In the love nest, Rudolf encountered Mary's aggressive marriage again. He had great resentment towards his father and mother and lost his mind during the quarrel. After Rudolf took out a Browning pistol and shot Mary Salad, he also swallowed the gun and committed suicide. .

Princess Sissi lost her only son, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire also lost its crown prince.

The emperor built a monastery on the site of Mayerling Lodge, and to this day, the nuns still pray for the rest of Rudolf's soul every day.

The grief of losing her only son overwhelmed Princess Sissi, and she fell into extreme despair. In the days that followed, Sissi wore black or pearl gray dresses and no longer liked any bright clothes. Just when the 52-year-old queen was eroding and about to suffer a mental breakdown, an unexpected news rekindled her vitality.

Seven months after Rudolph's death, in a mill outside Vienna, an 18-year-old civilian girl named Grace Meredith gave birth to a baby boy. Grace is one of Rudolf's lovers. She is deeply in love with that noble scumbag. This child named Hubert is Rudolf's posthumous son. Because Crown Prince Rudolf and Crown Princess Stephanie did not give birth to a boy or a girl, little Hubert was Rudolf's only bloodline.

Grace Meredith is an extremely beautiful girl of Slavic descent. If she wears a well-fitting and gorgeous dress, Grace's brilliance is not inferior to that of Princess Sissi in her youth.

But she is a child of a commoner family, a pariah, and a poor person. Grace's father is just a mill worker without any ability, status or property.

Grace carried little Hubert to the splendid Imperial Palace.

She hopes that her child can have a decent life, that he knows who he is and no longer suffers from poverty like his mother. Beyond that, Grace wanted nothing more.

After a series of identifications, including tokens, blood type identification, Rudolf's handwriting during his lifetime, etc., it was finally confirmed that Hubert's bloodline was certain. In fact, it doesn’t have to be that complicated. Princess Sissi can tell at a glance that the infant Hubert is exactly the same as Rudolf when he was a child, exactly the same.

Little Hubert is undoubtedly a gift from God to Princess Sissi, and God is also taking pity on her.

However, the appearance of little Hubert caused an uproar in the royal family, because he was an illegitimate son, a bitch born to commoners. According to the glorious tradition of the Habsburg royal family, the royal family will not recognize illegitimate children and untouchables. Little Hubert is not worthy of becoming a member of the great Habsburg family, and the royal family cannot be laughed at by other nobles.

Faced with the opposition of family elders and elders, Emperor Franz Joseph I was helpless. Princess Sissi tried her best to plead with the royal family elders, but to no avail. At this moment, the accident happened.

On the night of Christmas Eve, a group of unidentified armed knights attacked the mill where Grace's family was located, burning the area to ashes. Including Grace's parents and family, more than a hundred neighbors were killed or injured. But God is wise. Little Hubert, who was less than half a year old, kept crying. Grace carried him to the clinic three streets away in the snow, and she happened to escape the disaster.

Because of the unequal information, Grace Meredith believed that the massacre came from the orders of the Emperor and Princess Sissi because the child was a shame to them. Therefore, the strong Grace fled Vienna with little Hubert in her arms. She vowed to raise her son, tell him who he was, and let him avenge his grandfather and uncle.

On Christmas Eve when the family was reunited, Grace and Hubert disappeared into the heavy snow and were never heard from again.

The grieving Princess Sissi and the Emperor began to search for their grandson. They sent people all over Europe, but found nothing. But the emperor and empress did not give up, they were still searching, always searching.

That attack came from Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph I.

After Rudolf's death, the emperor had no other sons and the empire was left without a crown prince. On the advice of the senators, the emperor had no choice but to choose his nephew Ferdinand as the new crown prince and gave him the title of grand duke. However, the emergence of young Hubert seriously threatened the succession of Archduke Ferdinand, because Hubert was the emperor's direct blood relative.

The fight for the throne among the royal family has always been very cruel, both at home and abroad. There has never been any tenderness, and Archduke Ferdinand openly had murderous intentions. After the assassination failed, not only the emperor and Princess Sissi were looking for little Hubert, but Ferdinand was also looking for him, and he wanted to eliminate the root cause.

Princess Sissi never gave up looking for Grace and Hubert. Although Europe was already in turmoil at that time, she always believed that her grandsons were somewhere in Europe and that they were still alive. This became Sissi's only spiritual motivation and the only belief that supported her frail and sick body to survive.

Little Hubert, who was missing, received news that Grace Meredith had been seen in Switzerland. So, having already rushed to Geneva, she was unwilling to let go of any hope.

However, she was assassinated here by the Italian anarchist Luigi Luccheni. The unparalleled Princess Sissi passed away, and she never saw little Hubert again before she died.

When Hubert was 25 years old, the vicious Archduke Ferdinand was assassinated in Sarajevo. It was just a cycle of heaven, but his death triggered the First World War.

When Hubert was 27 years old, his grandfather, His Majesty Franz Joseph I, Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, passed away at the age of 8. He knew in his heart who had poisoned his grandson, but for the sake of the family and the empire, he The only option is to be patient.

Before going to heaven to find Sissi, the love of his life, Franz Joseph I secretly left a will to his two most trustworthy subordinates, hoping that they would continue to search for his grandson Hubert.

These two subordinates are Archduke Alois, the head of the Liechtenstein family, and Grand Duke Rainier, the head of the Grimaldi family. The Liechtenstein family has long assisted the Habsburg royal family and has been an important minister of the Habsburgs for generations. The Grimaldi family is the royal family of Monaco.

Franz Joseph I was of the same age as the late fathers of Alois and Rainier, and the emperor and the two elder princes had an excellent personal relationship when they were young. The three of them are somewhat similar to Liu Guan and Zhang.

Many years ago, after Franz Joseph I was crowned Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he did a big thing for his two children.