Word: habsburgs
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...Budapest last week, and drew up at the massive portal. A flunkey opened the door and out stepped a man clad all in black. Four blazing diamond brooches held in place the sole ornament of his costume, a green sash across his breast. He was the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg, claimant to the Hungarian Throne (TIME, Jan. 24 et ante...
...Black Archduke passed through the Gate of Honor, two lines of guards with leopard skins thrown over their shoulders saluted. They saluted again when the three other Habsburg Archdukes entered: Archduke ("Papa") Friedrich (father of Albrecht); Archduke Josef, his mutton chop whiskers sprouting above a crimson field-marshal's uniform; and his son, Archduke Franz, clad in a golden tunic, lost in the high sable collar of his purple cape...
Thus, amid the typical barbaric splendor beloved of Magyars, opened last week the newly constituted Hungarian Upper House (TIME, Nov. 29). Not since World War days has such magnificence dazzled at Budapest. In the galleries sat the Habsburg Archduchesses, ablaze with gems. They even more than the men, hoped that the new Hungarian Parliament would take up at last the question of who shall sit upon the Throne of Hungary, now held by the Hungarian Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya. Brusque, sailor-like, Admiral Horthy opened Parliament last week with a short speech, crisp, noncommittal...
...Habsburgs are at it again. Remembering the family motto that a man may be down but never out as long as there is anything marriageable in sight the Archduke Albrecht has been paying court to the Italian Princess Giovanni and seems to be at least a Habsburg chin ahead of his Hohenzollern and Wittelbach competitors. That the family fortunes fully warrant this recourse to the final remedy is illustrated by the spectacles of the Empress of Mexico dying in Belgium and of the Empress of Austria living in Madiera...
...Hungarian Parliament passed a decree (1921) affirming its right to elect anyone king, and denying the exclusive right of Otto to the succession. -The complicated Habsburg relationships are best disentangled with relation to the Emperor Leopold II (1747-1792). Franz Josef was his great grandson. Karl was his great-great-great-grandson. And Albrecht is his great-great-grandson. All these through slightly different lines...