Eva von Zehntner was the oldest of Bruno's children. As a young woman, she was entirely unlikely to inherit her father's position, and that was fine by her. She was not some ideologue of liberal virtues, despite having received a classical education while growing up. Rather, she deeply admired her parents' relationship and the traditional values her mother embodied.
When she heard from her father that an arrangement had already been brokered to marry her off in the future to Prince Wilhelm—not the immediate son of the Kaiser, but his grandson and future heir to the throne, who was currently roughly the same age as her—she didn't cry, or rebel, or throw a tantrum of epic proportions.
Rather, the young woman who had been raised her entire life with the civility and grace of a proper princess spent most of her time fantasizing about how their future relationship would blossom.
