Word: nbrunn
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...been done about the $125,000 per annum which the Duke continues to expect to receive, either from Parliament or from his family. Drawled the Duke to the Princess: "If the worst comes to the worst I can always pick up a living showing people around Schönbrunn; I know it so well...
Imperial pomp such as Austria has not known since the passing of hoary Emperor Franz Josef, reigned in Vienna for one night last week in his favorite Palace of Schönbrunn. For the first time since the World War the historic gold-banded dinner service of the House of Habsburg gleamed on the banquet table in the Hall of Mirrors. Faded Habsburg livery was unpacked and donned by Austrian flunkies to wait upon the daughter of Europe's modern Caesar, Edda, Countess Ciano. Archdukes of the House of Habsburg came with Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, a devout Monarchist...
Sightseeing in Vienna for the first time, Britain's Edward of Wales last week inevitably went to see yellow-stuccoed Schönbrunn Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef...
...data on that high bourgeois royalty, Edward of Wales might better have walked through Schönbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard by. Katharina Schratt was a popular Viennese actress in her middle twenties and Kaiser Franz was nearly 30 years older when they met. Their relationship was as respectable as the staid, fussy Emperor could make it. In full uniform he used to go to her villa at 4:30 a.m. three times a week, have a stiff formal breakfast with her. The Empress was as good a friend...
Leopold hung it over the great staircase at Schönbrunn where it remained, pride of the Habsburgs, until 1922 when it went to the Austrian State Museum. In 1925 it was sold to London tycoons to defray a deficit. Of it in the U. S. alone there are 2,000 copies...