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Leopold showed off his child prodigy at the first opportunity. Wolferl was only six when he played for Empress Maria Theresa at Schönbrunn Palace. He was seven when he played before Louis XV and tried to kiss Madame de Pompadour. She pushed him away coldly, whereupon he piped, "Who is this that does not want to kiss me? The Empress kissed...
...gone. At the Chancellery a bomb had sheered away the room where Dollfuss was assassinated. One wing of the hideous neo-Roman Parliament was burned out. Both the Burgtheater and the Belvedere were in ruins. Franz Josef's Hofburg was scarred but essentially undamaged. So were Schönbrunn and the Rathaus. One bridge remained over the Danube Canal. About 70% of the inner city, where the big stores, shops, hotels, restaurants and public buildings are concentrated, were in ruins or useless because of damage...
...words of Finnish." When Otto was ready for a university, his whole family moved to Belgium so he could attend Louvain. Otto learned to live with the austerity of his great granduncle Franz Josef-in a two-room suite like Franz Josef's at Schönbrunn, with books, a table, chairs, an iron bed, a washstand. He drove to his studies in a second-hand car. When it broke down he gladly crawled under to fix it, but because royalty could never appear in lowly shirtsleeves, had to leave his coat on. When faithful Hungarian legitimists heard about...
After the Berlin trips Count and Countess Ciano went once to Vienna, where they were dined at Schönbrunn and Dr. Kurt von Schuschnigg, last Chancellor of independent Austria, recognized Italy's Ethiopian conquest. From there they went to Budapest, where they left something less than a good impression. The Countess was said to have made eyes at one of the sons of old Regent Horthy. This could easily have been excused, but when the Count and Countess showed up for a hunting expedition arranged by the Regent four hours late with only the excuse they had overslept...
About 500,000 Viennese pack-jammed the streets, Imperial Schönbrunn Palace was a mass of swastika flags, and Hitler rode along standing at salute in his car, which never stopped, to the Imperial Hotel, from which all guests had been ejected. "Comrades, Der Führer is with us!" cried the official broadcaster and burst into loud sobs: "Comrades! I-am -un-able-to-continue-speaking- because-of-my-emotion...