Word: habsburgs
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...President of the Austrian State (Monarchist) Party, charging him with attempting to kill Eckartsau, Executor of ex-Emperor Karl's estates. Count Hoying denied the charge, characterizing it as an attempt at political revenge. He admitted, however, that he had charged Eckartsau with "wilfully sabotaging" settlement of the Habsburg estates. Empress Elizabeth, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, became the consort of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria in 1854. Empress Elizabeth was a great sportswoman; she was beautiful; moreover she had the brilliant intelligence of a Wittelsbach. From her arrival in Vienna she unwittingly offended Viennese society because...
...Empress Carlotta, known to the Habsburg Court as "Belgian Charlotte " is a sister of Leopold II, late king of the Belgians. She had influence in Vienna after marrying the Archduke Maximilian, brother of the late Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. It was on account of her meddlesomeness that the court hated her and was unmistakably relieved when she departed with her husband to rule Mexico, through the instrumentality of Napoleon III, Emperor of France...
Hungary is in a different position from Austria. Austria is a republic by the will of a majority of the people. Hungary is a monarchy by popular sentiment, but deprived of a King by the will of the Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania). The Habsburgs were not excluded from returning to the throne of Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon, and, despite the endeavors of the Little Entente through the Council of Ambassadors, the Habsburg family still remains eligible to reascend the throne, providing the Allied Powers approve. Czecho-Slovakia sees a danger to her new-won autonomy...
...Hungary religion is identified with the Crown of St. Stephen. The Habsburg family is the only one that can succeed to the Hungarian throne in the eyes of a very great majority of Magyars. Dr. Benes, it is argued, should not forget that he has outraged both the religious and royalist feelings of his neighbors many times in the stand which he and his associates took against the attempts of the late Emperor Karl to regain the throne of Hungary...
...Princess received the island as a marriage dowry; Yugo-Slavia claimed it under the treaty of Saint Germain. Princess Elizabeth stated that she was no longer a Habsburg, having renounced her rights on the occasion of her marriage; therefore Yugo-Slavia had no right to sequester the property. The case was settled by a payment of $575,000 to the Princess...