Word: albrecht
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...commonly said that $2,000,000 has been spent by Isabella and rich Hungarian associates to promote the candidacy of her son Albrecht for the Throne. This was the great lady's second attempt to snatch the Crown of St. Stephen for one of her blood. Before the War she tried, with the consent and active encouragement of doddering old Emperor Franz Josef, to marry one of her daughters to the heir apparent, Archduke Franz Ferdinand. At her palace in Pressburg, where he had been invited to fall in love with her daughter, the obstinate young man conceived a blind...
...TIME, Oct. 21), he restored the practice of flogging Hungarian soldiers for the slightest infraction, an historic Habsburg barbarity abolished in 1855 by Franz Josef. Tooth and nail War Minister Combos has fought the restoration of Karl's son, famed "Little Otto." Several times the election of Isabella's Albrecht as King of Hungary has seemed almost a sure thing. But suddenly, fortnight ago, Albrecht sought out "Little Otto" in Belgium, knelt before him, acknowledged him as the legitimate King of Hungary, swore fealty (TIME, June 2). In Budapest it was at first assumed that this astounding act must...
...Albrecht had disobeyed and deceived his mother. She knew nothing about his kneeling to "Little Otto" until it was all over. The rich Hungarians who had staked $2,000,000 on Albrecht's candidacy knew nothing. Grim Julius Gömbös was not in the secret. It appeared that Albrecht, running true to form as a decadent, wench-conscious Habsburg Archduke, had renounced his chances for the Throne?for a woman...
Month ago Archduchess Isabella's suave Majordomo scouted rumors that the Archduke Albrecht was thinking of marrying one Frau Kallay who was getting a divorce, broadly hinted that she would become his mistress. This of course would not have affected his candidacy?a King may look, and more than look, at a wench. But to her horror Archduchess Isabella discovered that her son was resolved to marry the woman, had set his heart on her as stubbornly as Franz Ferdinand fixed his on Sophie Chotek...
...terrible rage, seeing her blood about to be balked of the Throne a second time, and again by a woman of the people, ambitious Isabella ordered Albrecht to take a cruise to South America "to forget."* With crafty meekness, Son Albrecht said he would obey his compelling, imperial mother. He duly set out for South America as she commanded, but stopped off for a day in Belgium to ruin her life work...