Word: habsburgs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...count, Tuchman damns Popes from both ends of her pencil. She takes Alexander VI to task for granting an undeserved annulment to the French King, Louis XII, and thereby scandalizing the faithful. A few pages later she faults Clement VII for bowing to Habsburg political pressure and denying an annulment to Henry VIII of England...
ENGAGED. Princess Marie-Astrid, 27, eldest daughter of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; and Karl Christian von Habsburg-Lorraine, 27, Brussels banker, son of Archduke Charles Louis of Austria and grandson of the late Austrian Emperor Karl I; in Luxembourg. Princess Marie-Astrid made headlines last year because she was the last eligible princess to be linked with Britain's Prince Charles before he chose Lady Diana Spencer. Astrid's wedding is planned...
...worldwide interest in the Muskie-Gromyko meeting in Vienna, the first Cabinet-level talks between Washington and Moscow since the Afghanistan invasion last December. Accompanied only by their interpreters, the two ministers talked for three hours-an hour longer than planned-in an elegant marble room inside the former Habsburg imperial palace. After the session Muskie looked distinctly somber as he re-emerged into the klieg lights and said only that "the discussion fully justified my belief that it was necessary." As for the prospects of future talks, Muskie observed that "the meeting might lead to further discussions," but such...
Tito spent the next three years in the Soviet Union before returning to the new country that had been carved out of the old Habsburg Empire after World War I-the kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes, later renamed Yugoslavia...
...born Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, into the civilized elegance of the Habsburg Empire just before World War I. Even then, on the family estate, she would often accompany the resident gamekeeper through thickets filled with deer and foxes. She went on to study widely-music, dressmaking, metal crafts and premedical subjects-and in 1935 was married to an Austrian businessman. But two years later she went off on vacation to Kenya where, she recalled later, she "fell in love with this wonderful country," and stayed. A second marriage, to Botanist Peter Bally, foundered in 1944 on safari...