We weren't allowed any pictures but I snuck a few by hiding my camera under my sweater I carried... Some of them are contorted and blurry. Here is one of Alex in Empress Marie Theresa's (Marie Antoinette's mother) private chambers.The House of Habsburg was an important royal house of Europe and is best known as supplying all of the formally elected Holy Roman Emperors between 1452 and 1740, as well as rulers of and the Austrian Empire and Spain. Originally from Switzerland, the dynasty first reigned in Austria, which they ruled for over six centuries, but a series of dynastic marriages brought Burgundy, Spain, Bohemia, Hungary and other territories into the inheritance. In the sixteenth century the senior Spanish and junior Austrian branches of the family separated.
I wish I was a Habsburg !.. Or maybe not...
The Habsburgs sought to consolidate their power by the frequent use of consanguineous marriages with disastrous results. A study of 3,000 family members over 16 generations by the University of Santiago de Compostela suggests that inbreeding directly led to their extinctions. The gene pool eventually became so small that the last of the Spanish line Charles II, who was severely disabled by genetic disorders, possessed a genome comparable with that of a child born to a brother and sister as did his father, likely due to "Remote Inbreeding"
This is a really bad pic of me, but you get the idea...
We did the hedge maze a whole bunch of times and raced it... Total fun!
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