Word: steenockerzeel
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...from being butchered as the Romanovs were butchered, Little Otto's uninspiring father, Kaiser Karl, was allowed to slip away and die on the Island of Madeira. Last week the double eagle of the Habsburgs screamed again. From Vienna a member of the Government rushed post haste to Castle Steenockerzeel in Belgium, the retreat of exiled "Kaiser Otto." All the Government asked of "His Majesty" was that he should behave with procrastination and discretion. Would he please be so discreet as not to return to Austria next week, by which time the Government would have handed him or be about...
Belgium. Because Prince von Starhemberg comes of Austria's bluest blood and has always been considered a Legitimist, the pompous little Court of ex-Austrian Empress Zita in Steenockerzeel Castle near Louvain buzzed with a fury of preparation to pack off her handsome son Archduke Otto to Vienna as "Emperor" at the first opportunity. Sympathizing with Otto but anxious lest Belgium vex the Great Powers, King Leopold ordered every Belgian airfield watched. Officially the Belgian Government informed Zita's Court that she and her son are free to go, but only publicly. For years France bitterly opposed a Habsburg restoration...
There was another story. The day after Bethlen's resignation, 18-year-old Archduke Otto of Hungary disappeared from Steenockerzeel Castle in Belgium. All night long excited Hungarian reporters were routing royalists out of bed to learn if Otto was attempting to seize Hungary's vacant throne. They received nothing but spluttering denials. Eventually Otto and his mother, the ex-Empress Zita, were discovered in Switzerland...
Chief excitement was in the little Belgian Château of Steenockerzeel, near Louvain, where Archduke Otto and his indomitable mother, his seven brothers and sisters have been living for over a year. Night before "the birthday every window in the chateau was ablaze with lights for a birthday dinner. Otto himself, a pleasant youth in a scarlet & white Hungarian noble's costume, sat at the head of a table that contained members of the proudest, moldiest families in Europe. Ex-Empress Zita, in dead black, her only jewelry a large gold cross, sat at his right. With...
Last week to Castle Steenockerzeel came the Archduke Albrecht of Habsburg who, although no "legitimate heir," has been trying these many years to get elected King of Hungary on his own merits...