He defied an Emperor to be with her. She found the love she had been seeking in his arms. Their passion ignited the imagination of an Empire. It sounds like a promotion for the latest romance novel, but this story is no work of fiction. Archduke Ernst of Austria, cousin of Emperor Franz Joseph, fell in love with Laura Skublics. But, she was not good to be a bride of an Archduke. Some say they married anyway. Did they? And what became of their four children? The Archduke"s Secret Family seeks to answer those very questions.