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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...
Emperor of Mexico (House of Habsburg-Lorraine) Coat of arms of the Mexican Empire adopted by Maximilian I in 1864. Maximilian, the adventurous second son of Archduke Franz Karl, was invited as part of Napoleon III 's manipulations to take the throne of Mexico, becoming Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico.
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Otto, the last ‘crown prince’. Otto made his first public appearance as a representative of the House of Habsburg at the tender age of four, at the funeral of his great-great-uncle Emperor Franz Joseph in November 1916. The funeral procession was an impressive spectacle and remained engraved on the memory of many participants and onlookers.
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Born on the 17th of August 1887 in Persenbeug Castle, Lower Austria, Archduke Karl Franz Joseph Ludwig Hubert Georg Otto Marie of Habsburg-Lorraine was the great-nephew of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, who ruled between 1848 and 1916. Karl had one younger brother named Maximilian, and both boys were raised in a home that was a fountain of scan...
The January 1889 Mayerling incidentaltered history forever. Crown Prince Rudolph, the only surviving son of Emperor Franz Joseph I and his wife Elisabeth of Bavaria, known as Sisi, carried out a murder-suicide whilst staying at his hunting lodge just outside Vienna. He killed his lover, Mary Vetsera, and then himself, to the horror of everyone. The...
Emperor Franz Joseph took a keen interest in his great-nephew and the succession. He selected Karl’s bride for him. Karl and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma met as children, but they had not seen one another for over a decade. Fortunately, they got on well as adults and married on the 21st of October 1911 at her parent's summer house in Schwarzau. T...
The 1917 Russian Revolution stunned him. As the end of the war drew closer, Karl was faced with an economy in trouble and the likelihood that Hungary, Bohemia, Galicia, Lodomeria, and other parts of his empire would formally seek their independence. The allies promoted this as a favourable option in the newly forged Europe. By the autumn of 1918, t...
Karl succeeded Franz Joseph I on the 21st of November, 1916. He bore the title His Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty, Emperor of Austria, Apostolic King of Hungary and Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia.Although he saw himself as a king with integrity and cared about his people, Karl was poorly prepared for the business of ruling. He soon earned the...
The Habsburgs had no desire to surrender the empire to ministers, but they had no choice. They relocated from Vienna to rural Lower Austria and then, in late March 1919, to their exile in Switzerland with Archduke Maximilian and his family. On the border between Austria and Switzerland, Karl revoked the 11th and 13th November 1918 declarations and ...
Whilst living on Madeira, Karl caught either pneumonia or Spanish influenza, which then swept across Europe. He died on the 1st of April 1922, aged just 35, and he was laid to rest near Funchal, except for his heart, which was interred at the Muri Abbey in Switzerland. Shortly after his death, Zita gave birth to their last child, Elisabeth. Under Z...
Jul 16, 2011 · Mr Habsburg, a former MEP, died earlier this month at the age of 98 in Germany. Thousands of Austrians and tourists lined the streets of Vienna's city centre ahead of a procession into St...
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.
Jul 4, 2011 · 4 July 2011. Otto von Habsburg only relinquished his claim to the fallen Austro-Hungarian empire in 1961. The eldest son of the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire has died in Germany at...
