Austria's Last Imperial Family

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Charles I and his wife Zita of Bourbon Parma were the last Emperor and Empress of Austria and King and Queen of Hungary. Charles ascended to the throne in 1916 in the midst of the first World War after the death of his grand uncle, Franz Joseph. A chain of events made Charles directly in line to the throne: Franz Joseph’s only son and heir: Rudolph committed suicide in 1889. Franz Joseph’s next younger brother Maximilian was already dead at that point. His third brother Karl Ludwig died in 1896, leaving his son Franz Ferdinand directly in line to the throne. As Franz Ferdinand married, as it was declared, morganatically, his children were not eligible to inherit the throne. It therefore became clear that Franz Ferdinand’s younger brother, Archduke Otto most likely would succeed his brother. But Otto died in 1906 aged only 41 leaving his elder son Charles as his heir.
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@smooney717 Год назад

It's funny to think that someone who was Empress during the first world War was still alive in the 1980s

@garryjaydelfin1 Год назад

I agree. Her contemporaries would have included the German Kaiser, grandson of Queen Victoria

@rafaelfernandes2275 11 месяцев назад

I agree 🇧🇷🇧🇷

@mediocremaiden8883 Год назад

Empress Zita (well before she was Empress) er Archduchess Zita was the only woman who would receive Duchess Sophie (Archduke Franz Ferdinand's wife) at Court. She was the only one who was kind and acknowledged her, everyone else was told to shun Sophie because she was not born in a Ruling Dynasty but rather "only" a Countess and Lady in Waiting to the Archduchess Marie whom.everyone thought Franz was courting but Marie's mother found Franz gold locket on their tennis court and opened it expecting to find a portrait of her daughter, but she found a portrait of Sophie von Chotek instead. After that she was thrown out and shunned except for Zita who made it a point to befriend her, and invite her to her wedding to Charles and regularly invited Sophie The Duchess of Hohenberg to afternoon tea.

@OWOT-re5jf 11 месяцев назад

Intriguing historical royal family

@midnightchannel7759 11 месяцев назад

An honorable man. Thank you for posting

@markmh835 Год назад

Really, really GREAT video. I learned more about the Hapsburg family than I knew before. I didn't realize so many of them were so long-lived! (Good genes and healthy living, I guess.) The idea that there were members of the Austrian Imperial Family still alive and working in the late 20th and early 21st century blows my mind! Imagine an imperial princess working in Harlem! Thanks for this compilation.

@BackToHistoryYT Год назад

Thanks! I was thinking the same when making this video

@carolkelly2121 Год назад

Habsburg, not Hapsburg

@user-qz5dq8kn4p Год назад

Could you imagine how different the world would be if all the ruling houses that t lost there thrones would still be in power today I think the world would be a better place today 🥰

@bethtyree6346 Год назад

Thank you for sharing this story

@scubed8671 Год назад

Very educational, thank you. The Habsburgs also ruled in Spain/New Spain (now Mexico) thus I have always found the Hasburgs very interesting. Would you please consider making a video on the Spanish royals? Glad I found your channel 😊 Saludos de Mexico 🇲🇽

@DAVEJJR Год назад

Most people don’t even know that both Charles and Zita are related. Charles’s great grandmother was Queen Maria da Gloria of Portugal and Zita’s grandfather was her uncle Miguel who was king of Portugal until exiled for stealing his niece’s throne. Both direct descendentes of king João VI of Portugal 🇵🇹

@Robert2022._- 9 месяцев назад

Zita de Borbón -Parma tuvo muchos hermanos destacando Felix por ser esposo de Carlota de Luxemburgo, Renato por estar casado con una princesa danesa y Luis por ser esposo de María de Saboya, princesa de Italia.

@timtyoutube87 Год назад

Thank you wonderful video. I never knew this. I'm glad to learn thanks to your great video's.

@HugoBrown Год назад

I am always fascinated by the Austrian Empire, when you look at how small Austraia is now days and yet it had swathes of lands across europe. Another great video

@BackToHistoryYT Год назад

Thanks!

@SF-ru3lp Год назад

Very interesting. I hadnt known all that history. I was left wondering about the eldest child of Otto and where s/he might be now? G Ire

@rafaelfernandes2275 11 месяцев назад

Great video Complements from Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷

@BackToHistoryYT 11 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@alphaomega5909 11 месяцев назад

I'd like your videos on these "Former" Royals to address how they financially supported themselves. (Houses, travel, going to college, etc)

@valeriehercot2277 Год назад

Good job. Good video. Could you make a video about Astrid of Belgium very soon ?

@BackToHistoryYT Год назад

Will put that on my list :)

@valeriehercot2277 Год назад

@@BackToHistoryYT Oh, thank you!! ❤️

@folofus4815 2 месяца назад

Blessed Karl of Austria, pray for us! ✝️

@wolfknilli9511 Год назад

Elisabeth von Habsburg von und zu Liechtenstein died in Austria, State of Styria. Lifed at Waldstein Palace. Approx 30 km N of Graz.

@cathy3613 Год назад

Thank you for the history on the older royals the new ones can be quiet obvious

@EasrterRising1fan Год назад

It is a shame. They had a great Emperor in Blessed Karl.

@jacquelinefickis1734 4 месяца назад

My favourite Imperial family are The Austrian Imperial and royal family ❤🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹🇦🇹

@marksmale827 Месяц назад

When George V and Queen Mary were on a state visit to Vienna before WWI, even the ultraconservative Queen Mary was amazed at how archaic the Austrian court still was in the early 20th century.

@gidzmobug2323 Год назад

Longest name? Look up Queen Mary. She had a very long name.

@marksmale827 Месяц назад

The great tragedy was that Karl I was keen to modernise the monarchy and empire (the latter into a sort of commonwealth of semi-independent states which would all have gained full independence over time anyway) - and would have if he had ever had the chance. Instead, he came to the Throne in the middle of a crazy war which he personally detested and tried to end. By the time it was over, the Austrians seemed to have lost faith in the institution which - as noted earlier - was fossilised, out of place in the 20th century and in need of major reform.

@gidzmobug2323 Год назад

An interesting what-if: Had Franz Ferdinand survived the shooting and remarried according to the House Laws, who would have been Emperor?

@mediocremaiden8883 Год назад

It would still be Franz Ferdinand. There would have been no Empress though because Franz married morganatically and his 2 sons and daughter would be ineligible to inherit the Throne. After Franz reached old age and natural death, then Charles I and Zita would be Emporer and Empress only they would be much older. Oh you said remarried, Well, Then Franz would ne Emporer and of he married accordingly his 2nd wife would've been Empress. But he was madly in love with his 'Darling Sophie' and boy was she beautiful

@gidzmobug2323 Год назад

@@mediocremaiden8883 You missed the second part of the question. 🙂. What if he had remarried according to the House Laws? Would any children of the second marriage succeed?

@mediocremaiden8883 Год назад

@katherynekoelker2323 Oh sorry Please Forgive Me :) Yes, if he found a 'proper' Habsburg wife then their children (well, if the marriage had produced any sons);would be able to inherit the Austro-Hungarian Throne and his 2nd wife would've been crowned 👑 Empress Edit: And if this second wife had been barren or unable to bear children, then the Throne would've still passed onto his nephew Charles I. However, Charles died in 1922 of influenza. So then Otto, Charles and Zita's firstborn son would've inherited the Throne no matter his age.

@pedanticradiator1491 11 месяцев назад

I think had Franz Ferdinand and Duchess Sophie survived Sarajevo then when he became Emperor he would have had the laws about morganatic marriages abolished

@mediocremaiden8883 11 месяцев назад

@pedanticradiator1491 Maybe...But He was the only one who could have prevented the war,ironically

@scubed8671 Год назад

We Mexicans cannot forget Emperor Maximiliano & Carlotta attempting to rule Mexico when France invaded. Their castle, Chapultepec, is the only castle in the Americas 💕

@zabrinna6554 Год назад

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@esterherschkovich5002 Год назад

New sub here 😊My ancestors came from Austro Hungarian Empire.

@BackToHistoryYT Год назад

Thanks for your support 😇!

@OWOT-re5jf 11 месяцев назад

Longevity

@czarinacourtneyal-marmont4699 11 месяцев назад

That’s some name(s)! Puts Liz Taylor to shame!

@emmabou-ali1280 9 месяцев назад

Yolande is dead she died of old age on september 13th 2023 age 100

@SavageDarksider-sw7rp Год назад

Great job with the video. I might get A lot of hate for this but I don't care; I refuse to recognize the current governments of Europe until the monarchies return.

@a.f.7246 Год назад

What about king Charles?

@SavageDarksider-sw7rp Год назад

@@a.f.7246 he's one of few exceptions.

@josefklarr2617 10 месяцев назад

Iknew heras Mother ALEXANDRA, nie Ilana Princess of Romania we always spoke in German +Fr.lawrence Josef Hermann Von Klarr

@EasrterRising1fan Год назад

With how common assassinations were back there I am not convinced that Rudolf was not, his mother was too.

@Juan-no4yc 6 месяцев назад

Via

@tarikmehmedika2754 11 месяцев назад

Oooh, you soooo badly need to prqctice your intonation. You sound very tired. But the content is wonderfull !

@RVChua-js2dw Год назад

Great-uncle not grand-uncle.

@AlexandruRadulescu-sc2vb Месяц назад

The one who appears in the video as Karl Von Osterreich is a Gentleman who looks like him, this video clip is a trick and a falsification of history, Otto von Habsburg was the boy of a simple soldier in the Austrian army.🤣.