Chapter 52 Section 1

Sunny came into this world "with a candy in her mouth". When she was born on September 1, 1932, Sunny had a 71-year-old rich father and a 32-year-old young and beautiful mother.Sunny was the only daughter of George and Anne Lorraine Cloverfer.Sunny wasn't born "Sonny," her parents named her Martha Clover.One way of saying is that George Sr. was overjoyed when he got a daughter in old age. He felt that the child illuminated his old age like sunshine, so he called his daughter "Sunny (sunshine)".Another way of saying it is that Old George actually hoped that his wife would give birth to a son, but when he didn't, he wanted to raise his daughter as a boy, and he kept saying "Sonny (son)" all day long.Whether it's Sunshine or her son, anyway, Sunny became the official name on her household registration after she was called.

Sunny was born in a slightly inappropriate place, on a train from White Sulfur Springs, West Virginia, to New York.The Cloverfields had a vacation home in White Sulfur Springs, and they didn't rush to New York until the due date was approaching. Before they could make it, the baby was born on the way.As a result, Sunny got another nickname, "Tutu", which is an onomatopoeia for American children called trains, but Sunny didn't like this name. When Sunny was four years old, George Sr. passed away. Among the huge property left to their mother and daughter, "Columbia Electric Company" alone was worth 700 million U.S. dollars.In the 1930s, "700 million U.S. dollars" was an astronomical figure, enough to make the orphans and widows have no worries about food and clothing, and it was also enough to cause all kinds of unexpected troubles, troubles and even dangers.So Sunny was under the strict supervision of her widowed mother and grandmother since she was a child, until she was in middle school, and she was accompanied by the driver and bodyguard of the Cloverford family wherever she went.So Sunny had no friends since she was a child. Although she was outstanding in appearance and quite talented, her speech and behavior were well-regulated and almost rigid, just like the starched and pressed dresses she wore to school every day.

However, there was never a shortage of boys around Sunny, and to be fair, boys with good conditions, which was naturally expected by mother and grandmother.The two women seldom restrict Sunny from interacting with boys, but they can cut off their contact in a timely manner quietly. For example, in 1954, Sunny handed over a Russian translator to the United Nations, Jochi Vasilyich Husband, it is said that the family used to be a prominent family in the old days, but was exiled during the October Revolution and became a commoner.The mother and grandmother didn't particularly believe in this unverifiable fantasy, so they found an excuse to take Sunny out of New York, out of the United States, across the Atlantic, and escaped to Mittersill Castle in the foothills of the Austrian Alps.

Mittersill Castle was built in the 15th century as the summer palace of the then Austrian cardinal Saarberg, and that area was later called Saarberg.The archbishop had no heirs, and left a will on his deathbed, passing Mittersill Castle to the collateral descendants of Baron von Panz's family. In the 1930s, Herbert, a young man with a business vision in the family, converted the palace into a paid resort.During the not-too-long period from the opening of the resort to the eve of World War II, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland of Germany, Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, the then princess of the Netherlands and later Queen Juliana, etc. were received successively. Wait.

During World War II, Nazi Germany occupied Austria and also occupied Fort Mittersill.Gestapo (Gestapo, that is, the secret police of the Nazi party) Henrich Hemler, the head of the Gestapo, stayed in Mitterscherburg for a long time because he was in love with the lake and mountains of Saalberg, and almost turned it into the "second headquarters" of the Gestapo .The owner of the palace returned to his hometown from the United States after the war and found that Mittersill Castle was not only unscathed under the "protection" of the Germans, but also improved and refurbished the old and outdated water supply system that once made the guests complain.Reluctantly, the von Panz family, like almost all Europeans at that time, was displaced during the war and their family resources were exhausted, and they were no longer able to manage this expensive palace.