The world first caught a glimpse of Otto von Habsburg in 1916, when the 4-year-old appeared dressed in a fur-trimmed tunic at the 1916 funeral of his great-great-uncle, Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz ...

BERLIN (AP) - Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe. The oldest son of Austria ...

With all the dolts, villains, and incompetents the European royal families produced over the centuries, it is easy to forget the dignified and inspiring figures these houses had the potential to ...

IF ONLY his great-uncle had died earlier. Franz Joseph I was a masterful ruler of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but his 86 years brought rigidity when the times called for reform. This doomed the noble ...