While Bruno was visiting his father in an attempt to convince the man to help him perfect his blueprints and introduce them into service over the following years. Heidi had a meeting of her own within the building which housed the members of the Bundesrat and their offices.
The family she was born into as the illegitimate daughter of a mediatized Prince was complicated to say the least. But such was the nature of nobility. The von Bentheim family was split into two separate divisions.
Heidi was born the bastard daughter of Prince Gustav von Bentheim-Tecklenburg, and due to the nature of her birth her relationship with that side of the family was strained to say the least. However, her relationship with the von Bentheim-Steinfurt half of the family was actually quite good.