Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...final indication of the mounting interest of Hungarians in the Monarchy was seen last week when the death mask of the Emperor Franz Josef, previously hawked without success among the numerous Austrian archdukes, was purchased for $2,000 by the Hungarian Archduke Friedrich. He, "Vater Friedrich" ("Papa Friedrich") is a genial bewhiskered man, the image of the Emperor whose death mask he purchased, would make "a good old-fashioned King" were he not too old to begin...
...Habichtsburg ("Hawk's Castle") stood anciently upon a bluff near the confluence of the Rhine and Aar. From it the later Royal and Imperial House of Habsburg took its name almost 1,000 years ago. Once Holy Roman Emperors, at various later periods Emperors of Austria, Kings of Germany, Hungary, Bohemia, Spain and finally Emperors of Austria-Hungary, this potent family reached its apogee during the 68-year reign of the Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (born 1830, ascended 1848, died 1916). Last week the Hungarian press blazed with rumors that a kinsman of the "Grand Old Emperor...
...called "legitimate" heir is of course fourteen-year-old Prince Otto, son of the late Karl I, last ruling Habsburg Emperor (reigned 1916-1918). But "Little Otto" is not favored by many Hungarian nobles, both because of his youth and because the Allies might not stomach the restoration of the very prince whose father they overthrew. From this and other technical causes† many Hungarians have turned to the shrewd youthful Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, 29, as their candidate for the Throne. The Archduke is only a third cousin once removed* of the late Emperor Karl I, and therefore...
...Hungarian Parliament passed a decree (1921) affirming its right to elect anyone king, and denying the exclusive right of Otto to the succession. -The complicated Habsburg relationships are best disentangled with relation to the Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792). Franz Josef was his great grandson. Karl was his great-great-great-grandson. And Albrecht is his great-great-grandson. All these through slightly different lines...
...Hayama the black chariot of Death waited last week to speed heavenward the Son of Heaven, Yoshihito, the 123d Emperor of Japan...