The Queen has spoken: you dismiss Meghan and Harry in the freedom without royale obligations. You don’t have to smile any longer official members of the Royal family with the compulsion to Duration. A carefree life in Canada and in the international jet set, nothing stands in the way.

But the two could also opt for Switzerland. Since the Sussexes in search of rest before the Paparazzi, the discrete Alpine Republic. In Klosters and Verbier has Harry has spent already a holiday. In addition, many of the other Plantagenets were already in this country, after they had turned away from their aristocratic origin. Switzerland is as a castle of refuge of the fallen Royals.

Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden fled to Swiss exile, as Hortense de Beauharnais, the Queen of the Netherlands, the same as her son Louis Napoleon, the future Emperor Napoleon III., but also Louis-Philippe, the citizen king of France, king Leopold III of Belgium, Emperor Karl I. and Queen Ena of Spain. Two adopted from her blue-blooded parents ‘ house, in Switzerland, found refuge, were Archduke Leopold Ferdinand of Austria-Tuscany and his sister, the Duchess Luise.

As Luise of Austria-Tuscany in 1902 and in their language teacher fell in love, she fled with him to Switzerland.

He said to himself, from the house of Habsburg rid of them because he wanted to be a prostitute, marry, and bunk with her in Switzerland. In 1902, he wrote from Zurich to Emperor Franz Joseph: “I beg your Majesty, my drop position and rank as an Archduke and the name cub scout accept.” The Emperor corresponded to the request, and Leopold Wölfling married in 1903, his Wilhelmine – the scandal had to cringe the European nobility.

The Neo-Bourgeois was naturalized, and turned to the photography; you are interested but for the life of a reformer on the Monte Verità in Ascona. Leopold was soon sick of it, to share the life of his wife with grains and cult dances. He was getting a divorce.

For an equally large scandal in Leopold’s sister: Louise of Austria provided-Tuscany had married crown Prince Friedrich August III of Saxony, and became the crown Princess. In 1902, she fell in love with the teacher of her five children and fled spoke with him in Switzerland.

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First, Luise in Zurich, met her brother, Leopold, was the Only one in the family to her. Then, she traveled to Geneva and ended up in the psychiatric clinic La Métairie in Nyon, which she had kept for a private Sanatorium. Then she lived with Relatives in the castle of Wartegg on the Rorschacherberg.

Leopold ended after re-marriage to a harlot as a sausage seller in Berlin, he deserved something as a guide and as a performer of his own life story on second-rate cabaret stages. Luise fared no better: they impoverished completely and died in 1947 as a means of loose flowers to a woman in Brussels.

A bitter end is not to be expected in the case of Meghan and Harry. Fallen Royals, nowadays Yes, to beat out of the noble past, the Celebrity capital. Lucrative advertising and Influencer contracts, and wait. The abundant yields are creating the local bankers sure love to tax optimized.

Created: 04.02.2020, 17:49 PM