The suitcase was kept a secret till now, as Empress Zita made her sons Robert and Rodolphe promise that its location would be kept a secret for a century after the death of Charles I, emperor of ...

Making five centuries of Habsburg history fun seems like a tall order, but Winder pulls it off. He entertains because he is entertained. His sprawling history of a dynastic empire that began in the ...

On Nov. 1, 1921, the last Habsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, left Vienna for good. His empire, the second-largest state in Europe, had already disintegrated at the end of the First World ...

A century after its collapse, the Austro-Hungarian Empire is still often portrayed as a backwater of Europe, doomed to be torn apart by fiery nationalists. This view is contested in The Habsburg ...

A century has passed since the demise of the Habsburg Empire and the birth of Yugoslavia, and for the last hundred years, historians have tried to make sense of this change. I strive to answer the ...

When Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen was at school, his history teacher would be going through an episode in Europe’s chronicles and note: “That's something Mr Habsburg surely knows about.” He would be ...

The emperor Rudolph II as the ancient Roman god Vertumnus, by the court artist Arcimboldo Credit: Photo: Image Asset Management Ltd/Alamy What does the phrase “Austria-Hungary” conjure up in your mind ...

Full disclosure: I ate their lunch, and so I’m guilty as charged if accused of biting the hand that fed me. Or maybe “snapping at” would be a better term, since I don’t expect to tear flesh or draw ...

Strung along the Danube River, three capital cities — Vienna, Bratislava and Budapest — make up a triangle of enjoyable urbanity at the heart of central Europe. Each of these capital cities shares a ...

The legendary "Florentine" diamond, a 137-carat yellow pear-shaped jewel belonging to Austro-Hungary's imperial Habsburg family, has resurfaced 100 years after its reported disappearance, with ...