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...Hofburg. Once, when he awoke very ill in the middle of the night, he was able to bark only one phrase at the physician who had scurried to him: "Formal dress!" If he had any off-guard moments, they were reserved for his marvelously bourgeois relationship with Actress Katherina Schratt, a love that lasted until he died. The Emperor regularly nipped down to Katherina's house for coffee after early morning Mass. Delighted Viennese fiacre drivers called him "Herr Schratt...
...three times a week, he arose, put on a well-cut uniform and yards of braid, walked across the gardens of Schonbrunn, slipped out through a secret gate, and presented himself at a little yellow cottage at Gloriette Road No. 9. There he was greeted by the beautiful Katharina Schratt, "Käthi" to His Majesty. Dressed in full court costume, she would bow low, say "Good morning, Colonel," and wave him in. By 6:30 sharp the two were seated at a good bourgeois breakfast, roaring with laughter over some morsel of court gossip...
...husband, Nikolaus Kiss von Ittebe, had been appointed to a permanent consular post in far-off Morocco, Käthi had been given the not-so-far-off cottage, and wags in the Court guard were referring to their Emperor behind his back as "Herr Schratt...
Died. Katharina (Käthi) Schratt, 84, mistress of the late Austrian Emperor Franz Josef; in Vienna...
...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...