Extremely interesting. I'm also a history teacher and I'm currently covering WW1. This has truly shed light on many unanswered questions I had. Thank you very much
Nope you can't! She is a 'pretender' as the empire and monarchy was abolished. The Habsburg Emperor abdicated and he also abdicated as 'King of Hungary'. The Austrians became a republic and Hungarians a dictatorship styled a 'Regency' without a monarch. The Czechoslovaks also became a republic and all of these new states abolished Titles of Nobility and took imperial property into state control as legitimate successor regimes between 1919 and 1923. So this lady's case in respect of the castle in Bohemia was lost before she was born as it was not private property!
@@uingaeoc3905she’s not a pretender because franz Ferdinand’s kids had no rights to the throne. The throne Franz Joseph made it so their descendants would have no right to the throne…went right pass them to archduke Karl
What was so shocking about so called "enlightened" Europe is that at the beginning of the 20th century in 1914 there were two Absolute Monarchies. Austro-Hungary and Russia who ruled their very large Empires with a rod of iron, having become totally distanced from their peoples and corrupt and sclerotic. Germany was de facto also an Absolute Monarchy its Parliament had very little influence on the Kaiser and the Prussian military. France although nominally a democracy was not very stable still reeling from the reverberations of its bloody revolution and the aftermath of Napoleon and his heirs. Whilst Britain was a functioning democracy having had our revolution over 250 years before got rid of our Absolute Monarch and 12 years later Restored Charles 2nd to the throne as a Constitutional Monarch. It was hardly surprising that World War One was so cataclysmic.
All the greatest countries on earth are constitutional monarchies rather than absolute monarchies or republics. Wars just evolved things quicker to get to that point.
@@megru6385 It was shocking to a Brit because we had had a Constitutional Monarch for 250 years by the beginning of the 20th century and most of mainland Europe had not really moved on from the Middle Ages yet it was the dawning of the modern age. So because there had not been gradual Constitutional evolution over hundreds of years the result when the balloon did go up was all the more cataclysmic and violent. The Institutions in Europe had become stultified and sclerotic.
@@maryhook9478you may have had a constitutional monarch but y'all were still controlling, colonizing etc England had like just giving up its direct rule of India 40 years prior to WW1
