On the day the wedding began, Prince Karl of Sigmaringen took over Grand Duke Ferdinand's duties, while the Grand Duke returned to his daughter Karina.
November 3, 1873.
The wedding was scheduled for ten in the morning, at St. Augustine's Monastery Church, a place where members of the Habsburg family received baptisms and got married; in history, even Empress Theresa was wed here.
Due to the Heixinggen royal family's relocation to East Africa, the wedding couldn't strictly follow a European protocol. After all, it wasn't that the Heixinggen royal family couldn't entertain so many dignitaries in East Africa, but simply the notion of Africa was enough to deter a crowd.
The wedding carriage made Ernst want to vent; it looked like the pumpkin carriage from the Grimm's Fairy Tales illustrations he saw in his past life. Although Ernst knew this was quite normal in the West, his aesthetics naturally remained in the style of his previous life out of habit.
