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...devout peasantry no assertion could have been more monstrous. In 1919 as an act of Marxist right and mass justice the Imperial and Royal House of Habsburg?they of the curling ''Habsburg lip" ?were stripped of their lands and property down to the very nightgown of fugitive Empress Zita. Spurned by a Socialist Austrian Government, which exercised mercy only in saving the Habsburgs 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...
Into bustling little Lourdes in the French Pyrenees last week moved a vast throng of pious folk including 60 members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, silver-helmeted Vatican guards, healthy pilgrims and ailing pilgrims, devout European socialites, Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli, and that Blackest of Catholic nobles, ex-Empress Zita of Austria bringing her boy Otto, Archduke pretender. In Lourdes 77 years ago, Catholics believe, a peasant girl named Bernadette Soubirous saw an apparition of the Blessed Virgin. Bernadette is now of the blessed company of saints (TIME, Dec. 11, 1933) and the Grotte de Massabielle, scene of the apparition...
...Zita was a Victorian beauty who married a solid Englishman, a gentleman though a banker. He buried her in the country, never thought about her amusement. As mutely Victorian as he, she was unhappy but would not have admitted it. When business settled them in Paris, life began to look up for Zita. She had her portrait painted, met a young French poet who fell Gallically in love with her. At the last minute their elopement fell through; Zita was too blooded a Victorian. Years later they met again, but the poet was no longer a temptation. Instead, Zita fell...
...dickering last week Zita was seconded by her brother Felix. Prince Consort of the reigning Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg, who was also present. The six royalties finally agreed that the engagement of Maria and Otto should be made known as a fact but not published for the present in King Vittorio Emmanuele's Royal Gazette. Conceivably the wedding may turn upon whether Archduke Otto regains Austria's Imperial Throne or at least the Hungarian Royal Throne. When the engagement had been made de facto last week Zita and Princess Maria embraced, and Zita's seven younger offspring were presented...
...bound to Otto in virtue of the great oath. More likely to succeed seems a royalist putsch financed from Italy, though virtuous young Otto has said that he could never take a Throne made his by revolution. Once the Throne is really in sight Austrians are confident that Zita could conquer Otto's scruples. Masterful and imperious, it was "Empress" Zita's great triumph last week that the King of Italy should come...