Word: schratt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...more than 30 years the lovely Kathe Schratt was the great & good friend of His Imperial Majesty, Emperor Franz Josef. Moreover she remained on the very best of terms with the Empress Elizabeth until the hitter's tragic death...
Last week newsgatherers broke down the reticence of one of the few living people who really know what happened to Archduke Rudolf of Habsburg-a gentle 76-year-old lady, Frau Katharina Schratt...
...Kathe Schratt was an actress. The Emperor met her when she was playing leading roles in the old Burgtheater near the Palace in Vienna, but although she played the part many times on the stage Kathe Schratt was no Pompadour. She recognized that Der Alte 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...