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Among the witnesses of this brief ceremony was His Catholic Highness the Archduke Otto, pretender to the Habsburg thrones, Bailiff of the Catholic Order of the Knights of Malta. Otto sat near the Archbishop in the sanctuary, took third place (i.e., preceding the Archbishop and the Cardinal) when the procession left the Cathedral...
...Habsburg custom is that the King-Emperor does not sully himself with money (convenient since Otto's family never had much); so someone had to accompany him wherever he went, and dig down into unregal jeans whenever the Emperor wanted some cigarets. Under the Schuschnigg regime, Austria restored a few estates to the family, but the Nazis took them away again and gave them to war veterans...
...Imperial tradition in the fulfillment of which Otto has disappointed his family is that a ruling Habsburg should marry royal blood. His backers begin to despair of his ever marrying. Once he was exposed to a young, pretty Hungarian Countess. The courtiers left the two pointedly alone in the family's Belgian garden. Shyly and silently Otto walked. Finally he looked at the Countess with his big, soulful brown eyes, relaxed his sullen Habsburg mouth into a smile, asked: "Have you ever considered how industrious ants are?" Industrious but not quite as systematic as an ant, Otto has worked...
...accepted only one invitation (from the refugee Legitimist Austro-American League). He rather hopes to meet Franklin Delano Roosevelt. He said all he wanted was some sober fun, but his sympathizers, consisting principally of a few threadbare exiles who hang out in a Manhattan restaurant with a zither for Habsburg atmosphere, thought he would: 1) drum up sentiment for his Danubian Federation; 2) go to Canada to form the nucleus of an Austrian Legion at whose head he would some day ride to Imperial glory...
...Archduke Otto von Habsburg-Lothringen, throne pretender and Crown Prince of Austria whose incipient coronation will mean a new era of peace to Europe...