King Charles II of Spain was the last Habsburg ruler of the country, and perhaps thankfully so. Per his contemporaries, he was “so ugly as to cause fear” — though it was through no fault of ...

Charles II, the last Habsburg, was born to his father and his father's niece, resulting in a complex family tree. His parents were not only closely related but also descended from a long line of ...

The last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, Otto von Habsburg (1912-2011), was famous for his resistance to Nazism. What can we learn from his example? Can you tell us about the “knocking ritual ...

The investigation highlights that the last Habsburg monarch, Charles II of Spain, was plagued by various health issues including infertility - which may have stemmed from centuries of the dynasty ...

But the dissolution and subsequent abolishment of the monarchy on February 1, 1946, led to the exile of their last Emperor and still affects the Habsburg descendants to this day. Who are the ...

The protagonist is Maximilian of Habsburg, a fairly decent man unlucky enough to be ... followed suit and arrived in Veracruz. The heart of The Last Emperor is the story of Maximillian’s brief reign, ...

Although some members of Habsburg family are still around, their ruling dynasty ended in November of 1918. In 1919, the last emperor, Karl I, went into exile in Switzerland, The World of Habsburg ...

We don't know.” The ambassador was in London to celebrate the life of his relative Otto von Habsburg, a former member of the European Parliament and the last crown prince. “Knowing Otto ...

Mr. Habsburg is the 25-year-old heir apparent to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. His great-grandfather was Charles I, the last emperor of Austria and the king of Hungary. Before him, other ...

One prominent Habsburg was in Vienna last week. Archduke Anton, 33-year-old husband of the Princess Ileana of Rumania. Both have recently joined the Heimwehr. Both appeared at a Heimwehr mass ...

Editors’ note: The following is an edited version of remarks delivered for a gala dinner of the Otto von Habsburg Foundation in Budapest, Hungary, on November 19, 2022. There have been few ...

“Why? OK. That’s the same question I asked,” the amiable diplomat said over coffee in his residence last week in Rome. “You’re a Habsburg,” he said they told him. “You will find ...