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Peddling strings of Wienerwurst on the sidewalks of Vienna, selling life insurance, and finally keeping a grocery store, have been the occupations since 1918 of His Royal Highness the Archduke Leopold of Habsburg,* second cousin of Emperor Franz Josef...
Reviewers, flipping through advance galley proofs, found much inevitable court gossip, but dug out one sprightly passage of present and international interest. "It diverts me, after the flight of years," writes cheerful Leopold of Habsburg, "to contrast the career of Sir Thomas Lipton with mine. While he shot up the social ladder I shot down. He, the one time grocer, was soon to mix in royal circles on flattering, if not on almost equal, terms, whereas I, the one time royal personage, ultimately became a grocer...
Warmly, without a trace of sour grapes or jealousy, Grocer Habsburg goes on to praise the self made Tea Tycoon: "Just how his personality could break down all barriers was shown at a dinner party, given during Kiel Regatta shortly before the great war by Kaiser Wilhelm II, aboard his imperial yacht to Sir Thomas Lipton and Mr. J. Pierpont Morgan. The Kaiser was in a bad humor and inclined to be coldly polite. Mr. Morgan, sensing the frigidity, became frigid too. But not so the genial Sir Thomas! His joviality and high spirits soon thawed everything and everybody, most...
...Grocer Habsburg's memoirs contain a moral it is his insistence that since the War society's morals have not grown worse, as is often charged, but improved. Writes the Emperor's nephew: "The Emperor, and nearly every Archduke and Duke, had a mistress as well as a wife. As often as not the infidelity of each royal husband started almost immediately after his honeymoon...
...Budapest policemen snap to salute as the gleaming motor cars of the immensely rich, deposed Habsburg Archdukes pass. The U. S. Minister and the rest of the diplomatic corps periodically attend archducal levees-mere playacting, but taken in aristocratic earnest...