Dynastic strategies and representation, family happiness as well as unhappiness of the European aristocracy affected people’s lives and preoccupied the imagination of millions of citizens. Sometimes it was in fact the illusions of this late period of the European monarchies that had drastic political consequences. Still clearly evident today are the cultural bonds that were forged through dynastic relations – such as the influence of the Arts and Crafts Movement on the German "Jugendstil". However, an exhibition on "Victoria and Albert, Vicky and The Kaiser" that takes into account the close network of Anglo-German interconnections within the higher aristocracy is not only a reconstruction of half-forgotten reality. But rather, reflected in the mirror of the history of these great families we see something that could perhaps be called the possibilities of the past – an anticipation, as it were, of a condition of natural affinity among European peoples, effortlessly spanning the linguistic and geographical frontiers, such as we hope for in the future.