Word: habsburg
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...Reader Woodward is right as reign. A tch to the TIME researcher who misplaced a Habsburg...
Died. Archduke Maximilian Eugene von Hohenberg of Habsburg, 56, younger brother of Charles Francis Joseph, last Emperor of Austria-Hungary; of a heart attack; at his home in exile, a hotel in Mce, France. Orphaned in 1914 when his mother and his father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, were assassinated at Sarajevo -the spark that touched off World War I -Maximilian took command of an Austrian infantry battalion, won decorations for valor in fighting the Italians. After the Armistice, he was mostly in flight, in exile, or in the Nazis' "protective custody," ended up a forgotten anachronism living under the alias...
Tito was to invade Hungary, and Grösz would become regent, paving the way for a restoration of Austrian Pretender Otto of Habsburg. Grösz was to prepare for this coup by organizing resistance groups inside Hungary, including the boy scouts. The U.S. would finance the whole affair. Once in power, Grösz would revoke Communist land reforms, return the big landowners and capitalists to power...
...members of Madrid's local nobility politely regretted that they would be unable to attend a reception for Otto of Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne, and his bride, Princess Regina. It was all the doing of Don Juan, pretender to the Spanish throne and son of Spain's ex-Queen, Victoria Eugénie, who failed to receive an invitation to Otto's wedding last month. "I am sorry," said Don Juan, "but that ill-mannered individual was rude to my mother. I cannot forgive...
...Secret of Mayerling (Commercial Pictures) is another French retelling of the famed historical whodunit posed by the violent death of Habsburg Crown Prince Rudolph and his young mistress, and still another version of what really happened to them in the royal hunting lodge near Vienna on the night...