VIENNA – Lederhosen-clad Tyrollean guardsmen hoisted the coffin of Otto Von Habsburg onto their shoulders Saturday, carrying the oldest son of Austria's last emperor to rest in a pomp-filled ceremony ...

Blessed Karl of Austria died in 1922. He was the last Emperor of Austria and the last Apostolic King of Hungary. One would not think that this man would have much in common with young Catholics in the ...

Views of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting the Emperor. Interior ...

At last a really great book on the later period of the Hapsburg Monarchy! No one is more competent to write on the subject than Professor Redlich, an authority on constitutional history, for years a ...

Married at 16 to the emperor of Austria, Elisabeth—nicknamed Sisi—was a reluctant empress, struggling with royal life and sympathetic to the democratic struggles of the people in her new nation. Franz ...

VATICAN CITY – The 19th-century mystic nun who inspired some of the more controversial scenes of Mel Gibson’s hit movie The Passion of the Christ was beatified yesterday by Pope John Paul II.

A descendant of Austria’s last emperor and empress died this month, just days before she turned 32. Princess Maria Petrovna Galitzine, 31, died on May 4, Yahoo Lifestyle reported Wednesday. A ...

Lederhosen-clad Tyrollean guardsmen hoisted the coffin of Otto Von Habsburg onto their shoulders Saturday, carrying the oldest son of Austria’s last emperor to rest in a pomp-filled ceremony evocative ...

VIENNA — Lederhosen-clad Tyrolean guardsmen hoisted the coffin of Otto Von Habsburg onto their shoulders Saturday, carrying the oldest son of Austria’s last emperor to rest in a pomp-filled ceremony ...