Word: schonbrunn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nothing at first as he and the Princess Royal gripped hands, while Lord Harewood discreetly fell into conversation with photographers. By next day Edward VIII seemed in high spirits, showed his sister & brother-in-law assiduously through the miles-long corridors of the late Emperor Franz Josef's Schonbrunn Palace. In its theatre a party of giggling girls began-throwing kisses at the Duke of Windsor and he spent some time blowing kisses back at them with a curious two-finger gesture. There was no scrap of evidence, plenty of rumor that the Princess Royal and Harewood...
...country and one people" he meant a Germany-Austria combine. Next day Austrians were primed with a counter-motto, "Austria forever," as the descendant and namesake of the man who delivered Vienna, Prince Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, led the Heimwehr battalions into Vienna. Opposite the balcony of Schonbrunn Palace where stood Chancellor Dollfuss, the battalions smartly executed "Eyes! Right!" The eyes went back to "Front!" slowly because little Dollfuss faced them in the black cap, black trousers and green grey tunic of an officer in the Imperial Jager Regiment. Since 1918 no Austrian official had worn that uniform...
...Kaiser was completely bourgeois at heart. He dearly loved a good schnitzel and a flask of Muskateller, simple things that he could not enjoy at the palace. Kathe Schratt, like a good housewife, provided such homely comforts. At her little house within easy walking distance of the gates of Schonbrunn (the summer palace) the Emperor was known simply as "The Colonel." He dearly loved to come over in the evenings and argue with the cook. Gay Austrian officers called him "Herr Schratt" behind his back. For years he used to play tarok (Austrian whist) with Frau Kathe...