Archduke Otto's older brother is the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Archduke Otto was born at Gratz in 1865, and when he was 21 years old married ...

They were about to change the course of history. Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, had come to Bosnia to observe the empire’s annual military maneuvers ...

The early chapters of The Assassination of the Archduke concentrate on Franz Ferdinand ... the reign of the tradition-bound and ultra-conservative Emperor-King Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. As a ...

One month later, Austria-Hungary declared war ... according to calculations published in “Archduke of Sarajevo.” Emperor Franz Joseph described his nephew’s hobby as mass murder, said ...

Franz Joseph did not attend and neither did ... the eldest son of Archduke Karl-Ludwig of Austria and Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. Third in line to the Habsburg throne ...

These days, the Hofburg Palace is residence and office of the President of Austria, however extensive ... wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, with more than 300 objects on display.