Who were Empress Elisabeth of Austria's children? Learn about Sophie, Gisela, Rudolf, and Marie Valerie—their names, lives, ...

The Habsburg family, once at the helm of grand Spanish and Austrian empires, are infamously identified with the "Habsburg jaw", a pronounced facial deformity. Some attribute this to the high level ...

The surgeons rated each Habsburg for these physical traits and found the least expression in Mary of Burgundy, who became part of the family through marriage in 1477, while it was most noticeable ...

Aside from the Habsburg family, harmful recessive genes for haemophilia were spread across most of Europe's Royal families due to intermarriage within Queen Victoria's extended family. Recessive ...

There are also two places – Uzbekistan and Liechtenstein – that are “doubly landlocked”, meaning they are neighbours to other ...

Genetic experts argue that this decline was a direct result of the family's incestuous practices, citing the fact that only half of Habsburg offspring survived beyond the age of 10, compared to an ...

The Habsburgs, one of the most powerful families in Europe, are renowned for their distinctive facial features, with some attributing these to their extensive history of intermarriage ...

On Wednesday night, the historian from Brno, Jiří Pernes, passed away at the age of 76. He had long focused on the modern and contemporary history of central Europe, Czechoslovakia, and especially ...

Only two places in Vienna may legally say they have the original recipe: the Hotel Sacher and the Café Demel. It was ...