Claire had never eaten in a palace before.
She had grown up in a wealthy family in the French countryside that had survived over a hundred years of wars.
Her family had gained the privilege of nobility in France around the same time as Bruno's had.
During the Napoleonic Wars, the foundation of House von Zehntner was laid down with victories over the French at Leipzig and Waterloo.
While Claire's house had been founded a decade earlier at Austerlitz. Yet by her lifetime, that privilege had thinned to little more than land and memory.
But after the fall of the Second Empire they had mostly kept to themselves and stayed out of the chaotic affairs of the Republics that followed.
To say this was her first time witnessing the grandeur and splendor of a royal palace was an understatement. And the one in Tyrol was about as exquisite as such an estate could be.
