Golden Greenery

The current seat of the Principality of Liechtenstein was destroyed twice by war during the Napoleonic Wars and turned into a withering ruin. After Princess Sissi's husband Franz Joseph I was crowned Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the first thing he did was to re-confer this area to the Liechtenstein family.

The emperor not only funded the reconstruction of Liechtenstein, but also supported and helped Liechtenstein become a sovereign state, and made it clear in legal form. Later, after two world wars, various European countries drove out their nobles to establish republics. The Liechtenstein family lost most of their fiefdoms. Only this piece of land was retained because of its clear legal principles and its incompatibility with the world. Therefore, they hid in this paradise. He was able to escape the flames of war and survive to this day.

Next, Franz Joseph I helped the Grimaldi family, which had been driven out by Napoleon and lost its fiefdom, to retake Monaco. He showed no weakness in the face of powerful France and provided armed protection to Monaco.

Without the generosity of Franz Joseph I, there would not be two small countries like Liechtenstein and Monaco in the world today. Although the land is small, it is the most precious foundation for their two families. The two deceased archdukes left an iron rule for their descendants: loyalty to His Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I and his descendants from generation to generation.

After receiving the imperial edict, the two family heads vowed to fulfill the late emperor's last wish and formed a blood alliance. From then on, the two families devoted all their efforts to secretly search for Hubert in war-torn Europe.

After the death of Franz Joseph I, Archduke Ferdinand's son Charles I became the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Two years after he ascended the throne, with the defeat of the Central Powers and the end of World War I, the Austro-Hungarian Empire became dust in history, and the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty officially declared its disintegration.

The current head of the Habsburg family, Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine, is the eldest son of Karl I.

Hard work paid off. The Liechtenstein and Grimaldi families, that is, the royal families of Liechtenstein and Monaco, finally found the 51-year-old Grace Meredith on the Mediterranean island of Sardinia four years after the end of World War I. and Hubert Joseph, 33 years old.

During the 33 years of her escape, Grace did not remarry. The strong and beautiful Grace raised Hubert through all kinds of hardships alone amidst the displacement. The scars of the hard years made her look at least ten years older, but she still could not hide them. Her beautiful charm. In the first ten years of their escape, Grace and little Hubert escaped many pursuits and even lived in the ice and snow of the Finnish Arctic Circle for several years.

The infant grandson Hubert also grew into a handsome, tall and capable young man. He participated in the past World War as an infantry captain in Italy, a member of the Allied Powers, and the enemy of his father's family, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. A few years ago, he retired from the army while his mother was worried, and took her to a relatively peaceful small fishing village in the Mediterranean.

When the two royal families found them, Hubert was running a small fishery here.

Although the income is not huge, it is enough for the mother and son to live a good life. The only regret is that Hubert's wife passed away due to illness last year, and the two of them had not had time to have children.

Hubert inherited his mother's strong and courageous character, and also inherited his hatred of the Habsburg family. The royal families of Liechtenstein and Monaco tried their best to produce the edict left by the late emperor and the handwritten edict of Princess Sissi. Only then did the mother and son believe that it was not that the emperor and grandma did not want them, but that there were evil people. Make trouble from it.

Although World War I was over, the whole of Europe was still clouded, and Adolf Hitler had become the head of the German Communist Party. All countries are actively preparing for war, and war is about to break out. In order to escape military service, Hubert and his mother followed the advice of Archduke Alois of Liechtenstein and moved their family to Vaduz, the capital of the valley country Liechtenstein.

According to the imperial edict of the late emperor, the Archduke of Liechtenstein, as the imperial envoy of the imperial edict, on behalf of Emperor Franz Joseph I, conferred the title of Grand Duke of Austria on behalf of Emperor Franz Joseph I, the Grand Duke of Austria, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It was hereditary and Hubert also became the Austrian Archduke who no longer existed. The last Grand Duke of the Hungarian Empire. Grace Meredith was conferred the title of Dame Dame of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and was promoted to the title of Marquise two years later in accordance with the posthumous decree.

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 had three more daughters.

Although the love between the Imperial Grandfather and Imperial Grandmother Sissi was clarified, Archduke Hubert was determined not to forgive the rest of the Habsburg family. He refused to use the surname Habsburg-Lorraine for himself and his descendants, but only adopted the surname Habsburg-Lorraine. The Christian name of the great imperial grandfather and scumbag father was 'Joseph' as ​​the surname of himself and his descendants.

In order to cover up the crimes of Archduke Ferdinand, the Habsburg family also refused to recognize Hubert, an illegitimate son and a commoner, and stated that they would not allow him to recognize his ancestor. The person who made this decision was the current head of the family, Archduke Otto of Austria, son of the last emperor Karl. Otto's title is also 'Archduke of Austria', which of course comes from the reward from his father.

Even though both Hubert and his mother had official titles, Otto ignored them because the evil Archduke Ferdinand was his grandfather.

But at this time, the Habsburg family had long been in decline. Under the pressure of the European powers, it had no influence and no foothold. The royal families of Liechtenstein and Monaco ignored Otto at all. They valued the legacy of the late emperor who was so kind to him.

Hubert cut off all contact with the Habsburg family, and the two royal families regarded him and his descendants as the most direct bloodline of the Habsburg royal family.

In 1952, Marquis Grace Meredith, who was born as a commoner, died at the age of 81.

In 1955, the great-grandson of Princess Sissi, 30-year-old Ludwig Joseph, married Countess Gladys Huslett, a branch of the Monaco royal family and the Belgian royal family. Five years after their marriage, the two gave birth to a daughter, Sophia, but Unfortunately, Sophia died of influenza when she was less than two years old.

In 1964, Count Ludwig and Princess Gladys gave birth to a son, Frank Joseph, and two years later, a daughter, Ophelia Josephine.

In 1971, the grandson of the grandson, Archduke Hubert Joseph, died at the age of 82. His son Ludwig inherited the title of Grand Duke of Austria. Duchess Margaret died the following year.

In 1980, under pressure from established European aristocrats and royal families, the Habsburg family recognized the identity of the Hubert family, agreed to recognize their ancestors, and allowed them to use the family name. However, Archduke Ludwig was not shy and slapped the head of the family, Otto, in the face.

Various royal families and large families persuaded Ludwig to restore his surname to continue the bloodline of His Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I. In 1985, Archduke Ludwig finally agreed to restore the surname Habsburg-Lorraine out of the kindness of the late Emperor and Princess Sissi. At this point, Joseph's family, which had been exiled for nearly a hundred years, officially returned to the Habsburg family.

Afterwards, in order to appease the public anger, the head of the family Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine returned many of the private properties that originally belonged to His Majesty Emperor Franz Joseph I and Princess Sissi to Hubert's descendants, including the Florentine Flowers. The courtyard at the end of the alley.

In 1986, Frank Joseph, the great-great-grandson of Princess Sissi, married Matilda Arabella, who came from the French Orange family. The two met when they were students at Trinity College, Cambridge. A year before this, Frank's sister Ophelia Josephine had been married to his college classmate, the smooth-talking Andrew from the Swinburne family. Less than six months after their marriage, they gave birth to Jeffrey Swinburne.

On August 8, 1989, Christine Josephine, the sixth grandson of Princess Sissi and the daughter of Count Frank Joseph, was born. On January 8, 1995, Countess Ophelia gave birth to Mydel Swinburne.

In 1997, Kou Kou's grandfather, Archduke Ludwig Joseph, passed away, and Kou Kou's father inherited the title of Grand Duke of Austria. In 2001, Coco's grandmother, Marquis Gladys, passed away.

In 2000, the 11-year-old Koko was canonized as a countess by the Liechtenstein royal family. On August 8, 2002, on her 13th birthday, the Monaco royal family canonized Koko as a countess. On the same day, 17-year-old Zhuo Yang boarded a flight from Beijing to Frankfurt, Germany, and started his study abroad career. Three months later, he and she met on the Hanover Canal.

This is the origin and origin of the Kou Kou family. Many elements are intertwined together, such as a large family and a weak individual, the tide of the times and the wheel of history. Zhuo Yang was deeply impressed by this story.

"Zhuoyang, what do you think after hearing our family's story?" Kou Kou asked him with a smile.

Zhuoyang's answer made Kou Kou very satisfied.