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et me tell you a story, which I heard from my cousin 15 years ago. The tale begins with the ‘Schleswig–Holstein Question’, one of the knottiest of the many problems in the tangled web of 19th-century European politics. As British foreign secretary Lord Palmerston is reputed to have said, “The Schleswig–Holstein Question is so complicated, only three men in Europe have ever understood