Habsburg

For more than eight hundred years now, German settlers, mainly from the region of the Moselle and Rhine, have lived in Transylvania under the rule of Hungarian kings, the Habsburg empire and Ceaușescu’s communism.

The state no longer belonged to the Habsburg Empire. The state – no, empire, was all his. His little empire.

Did European royals sometimes intermarry? Yes. There are a couple of examples of that. The Habsburgs are not beating the allegations.