Board Thread:The Reference Desk/@comment-24894325-20151215214102/@comment-24894325-20151219104919

Another issue I was not entirely decided on and would appreciate your input. The category Austro-Hungarian royalty is absolutely correct. However, I am hesitant to use Austria-Hungary in the text of any of the articles because Hungary is never mentioned in the story. It is, in fact, a bit confusing (perhaps, even a production error): Mary mentions Germany and Austria as countries. But Germany did not yet exist in 1816, where Mary is from, and Austria was part of Austro-Hungrian empire. There was a loose German Confederation in 1816, but Austria was part of it, so Mary could not have meant that. So in the end, I thought it is better to stick to the text of the story rather than to historical facts (in-universe perspective and all that).