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...return to his homeland for the first time in 44 years, Austria's long-established coalition government trembled last week. For the mustached Herr Doktor is Franz Joseph Otto Ruprecht Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xaver Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignaz, Archduke Otto von Habsburg, pretender to the Austrian throne...
Industrious Ants. Otto was five when Austria rebelled against the Habsburg monarchy and overthrew his father, Emperor Karl, in the aftermath of World War I. The new republican government exiled the royal family and passed a "Habsburg Law," which banned their return to Austrian soil until they renounced all claims to the throne and formally embraced the democratic constitution. Karl regally refused, and after his death in 1922 the royal family settled in Spain, where the Empress Zita set up a modest court...
...years ago, Otto suddenly announced his willingness to abide by the provisions of the Habsburg Law and sought to re-enter Austria. But Austria's coalition government, balanced between the 81 parliamentary seats held by the conservative People's Party and the 76 seats held by the Socialists, refused to act on the petition in the face of vehement Socialist protests that Ot to's political ideas were "fantastic" and that his declaration of loyalty was inadequate. Otto's attorney took the case to the Administrative Court, which fortnight ago upheld the legality of his declaration...
...Juan's hemophilic younger brother, Don Gonzalo, in another car crash four years earlier. The disease comes not from the Habsburg dynasty, as legend has it, but from Britain's Queen Victoria, whose youngest son, Leopold, bled to death at 31, and whose daughters Alice and Beatrice carried the malady to other royal families. Beatrice was Don Juan's grandmother...
Despite his determination to return to Austria as an ordinary citizen, Dr. Habsburg had himself billed as Archduke Otto of Habsburg and was addressed as "Your Highness" throughout the evening...