This summer, His newly crowned Majesty returns for his hols to Transylvania and the rural Saxon lifestyle he admires.
I first paid a visit to the region in 1985, four years before the fall of Nicolae Ceaușescu, the Romanian dictator, while researching . On the way through Bucharest, I'd acquired an introduction to the Lutheran Bishop of Sibiu – aka Hermannstadt. This, seven villages full of hard-working, upright Protestants who'd been ploughing the fields and keeping themselves to themselves since the 12th century.
