Rise of an Empire

My aunt and my cousin

Conrad was a little confused by what Linda said. When did he have such relatives?

But when he saw the signature on the back of the invitation, he realized that he really had such an aunt and cousin.

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and other territories and dependencies, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Anglican Communion

After seeing such a long list of titles that could confuse people, the Duke finally thought of this relative.

I still remember that when he had just traveled through time, he had considered going to this aunt to catch the autumn wind.

The full title of Conrad's dukedom is Duke of Saxony-Meiningen, while the Queen of England was born in the Kingdom of Saxe, Keburg, and Gotha. Both of their surnames are Wetting.

The two of them had the same ancestor four hundred years ago, and because they are both orthodox heirs to the title, Conrad, the nephew who is related to the Queen of England by blood for unknown generations, can actually be counted according to the blood relationship calculation of the European continent. They are considered close relatives of the other party.

God knows how these Europeans calculated.

But it doesn't matter, the other party won't come to his door to fight in the autumn wind anyway, so the Duke has never cared about the aunt he has never met.

Although Conrad has basically stayed away from his so-called relatives in Europe over the years, as a qualified steward, Thrawn will send gifts to those guys in the name of the Wettin family every year on festivals or special dates.

After all, this is a tradition passed down by the Weiting family for hundreds of years, and it must not be abandoned.

It is said that some poor nobles in Europe basically live by selling the gifts sent by various families every year.

For a long time, because this world has been like two completely unrelated parallel worlds to his previous life since World War II, many well-known celebrities in his previous life do not exist at all in this parallel world, and even some countries have simply disappeared, so Kang La Dedu judges the operation of the world line based on the memory of Marvel or movies and TV series.

So when he saw this invitation, he remembered that this wedding was quite famous.

The wedding of the Prince of Wales and Princess Diana was called the wedding of the century and was considered the most dreamy wedding ceremony in the 1980s.

Although Britain in the 1980s was no longer the world's hegemon, it was still firmly in power because of the huge wealth it had plundered from all over the world over the past few hundred years and the lingering power of the empire on which the sun never sets for centuries. Secure the third place in the world.

The British royal family can still be regarded as the most prestigious family in the world, not one of them.

The decline of the British royal family should be more than ten years later. With the continuous decline of British national power and several policy failures, the status of the British royal family was gradually shaken, and it slowly fell from the throne of the first family in the world.

Of course, that was the script of the previous parallel world. In the current world, Conrad doesn't know whether the British royal family will continue to follow the previous pace.

The reason why Linda sounded jealous was mainly because the wedding was so huge that she felt a little unhappy.

Because she and Conrad had a political marriage, neither the Duke nor Lyndon wanted to attract too much attention, so they just invited a few relatives and friends to the Weting Manor for the wedding. No extra people were invited.

Linda was always a little unhappy because of this matter, but neither Conrad nor Lyndon had the courage to fight in front of them, so she could only hold it in her heart.

Now seeing that even the invitations to the Prince of Wales' wedding were so gorgeous, it was certainly impossible to say that Linda didn't have any complaints in her heart.

But what she thought, the Duke didn't bother to pay attention to. He was not a close brother, so he had nothing to do to act as a guest mood ambassador.

For his woman, all he asked was to be obedient and not cause trouble for him, as long as she didn't commit suicide and go out to fool around thinking about wearing a hat for him. He basically turned a blind eye to other things and pretended not to see it.

For example, Linda had a bad habit of abusing maids, and would even torture some women whom he had no memory of to death. Conrad knew these things in his heart.

He knew that as long as he cared more about this woman, she wouldn't become so mean and ungrateful.

But just like ancient emperors who basically didn't care about their queen's psychological needs, Conrad naturally didn't have the time to be a psychological counselor.

Anyway, they were just a bunch of maids whose faces they couldn't even remember. Linda could do whatever she wanted.

I still remember when Phoenix went on a rampage because of his power and killed hundreds of people in one breath. Compared with her, Linda's small fights were completely painless.

"You want to go to the wedding with me?" Conrad threw the invitation on the table casually, then sat up straight and asked Linda.

"Yes." Linda nodded quickly. She was the real Mrs. Weiting, so she naturally had to show her face on such an occasion.

"Then what are you doing?" I don't have anything to do recently, so I would like to go to England to attend the wedding of the century just to relax.

It's just that he knew Linda's intention of coming here, but why did Frost come with her?

"Why, can't I go to participate?" The White Queen smiled, and the study room was filled with tenderness in an instant.

"No, this"

The Duke doesn't know what kind of medicine the other party sells in his gourd.

No matter where she was, Frost always presented herself as his mistress and the one who gave birth to a daughter for him. This was well known to the top brass in New York and even the United States.

Even Linden knew Frost's identity.

And because Little Phoenix is ​​currently Conrad's only heir, even Linden is slightly at a disadvantage when facing Frost.

There is no way, for a thousand-year-old family like the Weiting family, a mistress who cannot give birth to an heir is basically easily kicked out.

Linda's psychology has gradually become distorted over the years. In addition to Conrad's neglect and indulgence, it probably also has a lot to do with the fact that she has never been able to give birth to a child.

However, no matter how unbreakable Frost's position in the Wettin family is, it would be a bit bad for her to take her as her mistress to the wedding invitation from the British royal family that she attended this time.

After all, in the eyes of the established European aristocrats, rules are still very important.

"The royal family also invited me." Frost was originally going to tease Conrad, but after seeing the other person's hesitant expression, he couldn't help but feel angry and funny, so he took out another item from his bag. An invitation.

However, compared to Conrad's invitation with gold background and vibranium description, her invitation seemed much shabby.

Even though the materials used should be quite particular, and the red stickers were made of pure gold with various patterns, it is obvious that the gap between the previous one is quite large.

But it makes sense to think about it. If you send out invitations worth ten thousand US dollars when meeting people, then even the financial resources of the British royal family are probably a bit tight.