Olga had long since grown accustomed to such things. After all, Franz often employed people who flouted convention.
As for those fanciful young girls, they mattered even less. To the vast majority of nobles, a suitable match in rank and family was far more important than whether they liked each other.
For the truly highest-ranking nobles, something like love simply did not exist. They did not need love, because they never lacked it; most political marriages were exchanges of interest.
Having one, or even several, openly acknowledged lovers was hardly uncommon among royal families. Some husbands would even encourage their wives to become their superiors' mistresses for the sake of their own and their families' futures.
Naturally, some also used affairs to build alliances of power. The famed Prince Metternich, for instance, used his lovers to weave an enormous intelligence network throughout Europe's high society. Some even claimed that the Metternich System had been built jointly by Metternich and the husbands of his lovers.
Thus, no one had ever harbored any doubts about Franz's behavior. First, it was the family tradition of the Lower-Body Fortress; second, there was his teacher, Metternich.
With those two points in place, no matter how far Franz went, others could understand it. If anyone wanted to curse, they would curse Metternich—and might even tell Franz, "Your Majesty personally taking the field and laboring so hard is truly exhausting work."
It was also worth mentioning the status of women at the time. Even in France, which had proclaimed the Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Napoleonic Code stipulated that a wife was her husband's property.
For much of the nineteenth century, possessing another man's wife was proof of one's social standing. There was a proverb: "Look at his mistress, and you will know his power."