Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MEYERLING-Auto-biography of "R," a Habsburg Prince, in collaboration with Henry Wysham Lanier-Lippincott ($3). Diverting, specious story of a man claiming to be the secret son of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who, he maintains, did not commit suicide in 1889 but lived until...
Mayerling (Nero Film) takes its title from the Austrian hunting lodge where on a cold morning of January 1889, the heir to the Habsburg dynasty was found shot with his young and tolerably beautiful mistress, the Baroness Marie Vetsera. All those within scrutiny were sworn to life secrecy by the Emperor Franz Joseph, who issued the fiat that the pair had committed double suicide, and the incident was the subject of an official dossier inflammable enough to be excluded finally from the State archives. In the less combustible medium of celluloid, the Mayerling mystery is simplified into a classic denouement...
...with heavy losses to the Rebels. To celebrate his new command Rightist General Fidel Davila ordered a massed attack on the important peak and town of Lemona. At the end of 24 hours Basque forces were still holding out. Star witness of the Lemona attack was Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the thrones of Austria and Hungary.* At the front to visit his youthful uncle. Prince Gaëtan of Bourbon-Parma, and accompanied by another uncle, Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, he wore in their honor the red beret of the Carlist royalists, spoke fluent Spanish...
When the House of Habsburg fell in 1918, the Vienna choir had to disband. Six years later Father Josef Schnitt, a priest at the Former Imperial Chapel, reorganized it, for two years fed, clothed and educated the boys out of his own pocket. By 1926 Father Schnitt's savings were gone and the Wiener Sängerknaben went on tour...
Dowager Queen Marie of Rumania's favorite daughter Princess Ileana, wife of a Habsburg archduke with a castle less than 25 miles from that in which "Boysy" is staying (see p. 15), this week invited Mrs. Simpson to visit her in Austria. The last Scotland Yard detectives assigned to Mrs. Simpson had just cleared out of Cannes. With bagfuls of threatening letters arriving by each post Mrs. Simpson urgently asked that her five French Government Secret Service guards be not withdrawn. They gallantly reassured her that they were staying, and, as the Lord-in-Waiting had left...