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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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Schippler, Berndt: Schwarzbuch der Habsburger. Die...
- Otto Habsburg-Lothringen
Otto was the eldest son of the last Emperor and Empress of...
- Otto and Austrofascism
Following the dissolution of parliament in May 1934 an...
- Decline and Fall
The Austrian writer Karl Kraus called the Great War the Last...
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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.
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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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Mar 26, 2024 · House of Habsburg, royal German family, one of the chief dynasties of Europe from the 15th to the 20th century. As dukes, archdukes, and emperors, the Habsburgs ruled Austria from 1282 until 1918. They also controlled Hungary and Bohemia (1526–1918) and ruled Spain and the Spanish empire for almost two centuries.
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...
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 ...
