I do not understand how the royal family survived until today...
HOW DON'T YOU KNOW WHY THE DUKE, A DISTANT RELATIVE FROM THE DEAD EMPRESS, WOULD HATE THE EMPEROR'S BASTARD CHILDREN? HI?
Is it so complicated to understand that the duke (supposedly) liked the empress and not the emperor himself? Since his reason for liking the princes and such, is it because they are children of the deceased empress? And the twins have NOTHING to do with the empress, so what reason would he have to like bastard children who might humiliate and dirty the empress's memory?
Sir, is it so hard to use 2 braincells at once to think?