本文中的真实人物会特地标注出。
本章真实人物也就是鲁普雷希特王储与指挥家阿本德罗特了。
梅伦克堡与利珀家因为Duchess Marie与Prince Julius的婚姻结成了亲家,但Manfred与Hermann的身份皆为虚构,因为文章需要,借用梅伦克堡与利珀的名字。
Duchess Marie有一个私生女,是她在英国旅游的时候与一个关煤气灯的男仆生下来的。从小长在她的祖母Princess Augusta of Cambridge(George III的孙女)膝下。但后来Augusta死了,她自然身世浮沉雨打萍。因此她会是本文中一个重要人物噢,我想大家都猜出来她会和谁在一起了。
一个给母亲带来耻辱的女儿,纵使亲生,也是不会受母亲喜欢的。
Wikipedia上的原话是
As a young woman Marie became pregnant by a palace servant. The servant, a married man named Hecht, was responsible for turning off the gas-lights in the bedrooms of the grand ducal children. Several of Marie's cousins, including the future King George V of the United Kingdom and William II, German Emperor, thought that Marie had been "hypnotised", while Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom thought that Marie had been "drugged". Hecht was dismissed from service on the charge of stealing;his subsequent lawsuit against the grand ducal family made the details of the story public. The story made radical newspaper headlines in its day.
A daughter was born to Marie in 1898;she was raised under the protection of Marie's grandmother, Grand Duchess Augusta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (born Princess Augusta of Cambridge).
Marie的第一段婚姻也不愉快:
In January 1908, Marie applied for a divorce from George.She accused the Count of marrying her for her money, and continued his affair with Princess Eulalia. When the matter went to court, Marie's own scandalous past, as the unwed mother of a manservant's child, was revealed and thrown in her face;as a result, Marie's family suffering much public disgrace.In August the same year, while the case was still proceeding in court, Marie's youngest brother, the nineteen-year-old Duke Karl Borwin of. Mecklenburg, felt moved to challenge his brother-in-law to a duel, the duel took place and it was Marie's brother, Karl Borwin, who was killed.Marie and George were divorced 31 December 1908. Marie has lost her fortune due to the divorce, she resumed the use of her Mecklenburg title and lived in the Blasewitz section of Dresden.
大意就是,Marie指责她前夫为了巨大赡养费与她结婚还出轨(最出名的就是出轨西班牙尤拉利亚公主),后来她提出离婚时,乔治在法庭上揭露她的过去(很恶心),让玛丽一家蒙羞。
玛丽的弟弟卡尔找乔治要求决斗,最后弟弟死在了决斗里。
闹得沸沸扬扬后,他们终于离婚,玛丽为了离婚也失了不少财产,然后改回了婚前姓氏与头衔,住回娘家去了,直到后来与大龄男青年利珀–比斯特菲尔德的朱利亚斯·恩斯特王子结婚,生下我们男主与他兄妹们。
所以说按设定男主还是乔治三世直系后代呢。