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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 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...
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Otto Habsburg-Lothringen died in Pöcking at the age of 98, surrounded by his family, on 4 July 2011. He was interred in the Imperial Crypt on 16 July 2011. Huge crowds flocked to witness the event.
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.
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 ...
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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...
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 ...
