ROYAL TOUR

I’ve only been in Liechtenstein for a few days and I’ve already met two members of the royal family, exchanged pleasantries with the Prime Minister and rubbed shoulders with the Minister of Social Affairs. I knew it was a tiny country—the sixth smallest in the world, with 38,000 inhabitants nestled on 160 square kilometres of alpine terrain sandwiched between Austria and Switzerland—but I didn’t think it would feel like a gathering with a large extended family.

“It’s a very cosy community,” says H.S.H. Prince Philipp, who I meet in the capital, Vaduz, a picture-postcard town on the banks of the Rhine that’s home to a petite population of not quite 6,000.