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Mar 14, 1989 · March 14, 1989 12 AM PT. From Times Wire Services. ZIZERS, Switzerland — Zita, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg Empire whose role in a plan to end World War I led to exile from her Austrian...
Mar 15, 1989 · By From News Services. March 15, 1989 at 12:00 a.m. EST. ZIZERS, SWITZERLAND -- Zita, 96, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg empire of Austria-Hungary whose role in a plan to end World War I...
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Apr 2, 1989 · She died in Switzerland on March 14 at the age of 96. Some of the older spectators said they came to pay their respects to a woman they still remembered as their monarch.
The one exception to this was the period of (1601–1621), when shortly before Philip II died on 13 September 1598, he renounced his rights to the Netherlands in favor of his daughter Isabella and her fiancé, Archduke Albert of Austria, a younger son of Emperor Maximilian II. The territories reverted to Spain on the death of Albert in 1621, as ...
Charles was born on 17 August 1887, in the Castle of Persenbeug, in Lower Austria. His parents were Archduke Otto Franz of Austria and Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony. [3] At the time, his grand-uncle Franz Joseph reigned as Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary. Upon the death of Crown Prince Rudolph in 1889, the Emperor's brother, Archduke ...
On 4 July 2011, Otto von Habsburg, also known as Otto of Austria, former head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine and Sovereign of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1922–2007), and former Crown Prince (1916–1918) and, by pretense, Emperor-King (from 1922) of Austria-Hungary, died at 98 years of age.
The Last days of the Habsburg Monarchy. In November 1918, writes Norman Stone, a whole political and social order in central Europe came to an end. On Sunday, November 10th, 1918, a Habsburg Emperor attended mass in the Imperial Chapel of Sch ö nbrunn for the last time. The young Emperor Charles, nephew of the murdered Archduke Francis ...
