Word: legitimist
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Belgium. Because Prince von Starhemberg comes of Austria's bluest blood and has always been considered a Legitimist, the pompous little Court of ex-Austrian Empress Zita in Steenockerzeel Castle near Louvain buzzed with a fury of preparation to pack off her handsome son Archduke Otto to Vienna as "Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration...
...forgotten the proud words of the great Hungarian legitimist leader. Count Albert Apponyi: 'The King of Hungary cannot crawl like a thief over the fence in order to ascend the throne of his ancestors...
When police had dispersed the students, Legitimist Deputy Father Greiger startled Hungary by announcing that the Habsburgs are now willing to come back on the cheap. "We need have no fear of extravagance!" cried Father Greiger. "Otto has told me that on becoming King of Hungary he is prepared to be definitely a poor man's king. ... It is slander to say that Otto speaks Hungarian with an Austrian accent. He speaks better Hungarian than Koloman de Kanya, our present Foreign Minister"-who speaks with the West Hungarian accent of his native town Sopron...
Died. Count Julius Andrassy, 68, of Budapest, last Foreign Minister of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, leader of the Hungarian Legitimist party; in Budapest...
...Otto is King!" proclaimed Count Albert Apponyi, venerable and honored representative of Hungary before the League of Nations. As President of the Legitimist Party the Count issued this further statement...