HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE.
VISIT TO WINDSOR CASTLE. By TflccrapJi-Frosa Association- -Copyright London, November 16. The Archduke Fi*aiiz Ferdinand (heir te tho Austrian Throne) and : his wife-, Duchess of Hohoii'berg, have arrived.to join their Jtajestios hlie King and Q.ueeil at Windsor on Monday next. T.h.e Archduke I\raacis Ferdinand is the nephew of the aged Emperor Francis Joseph and is in Ills fiftieth year, His wife was formerly Countess Sophio Chotek, a lady-in-waiting in the. household of the Archduchess Isabella, There,were weighty Sti'ito protests against this morganatic marriage, Which took place in 1900 ivitlt the Emperor's consent and tlio blessings of the majority' of Austrian® and. Hungarians. Afterwards the Emperor conferred o.n tho -countess the tfflo of Duohess of Hohenberi}; but she may never sharo the Austrian Throne. Her husband, o.n his tnattiagc, had to' renounce all claims of his wife .Or children on the House of Hahsburg, " The Archduke is a devoted .husband, and his wife has smoothed o.ver tho difficulties at the Austrian Court inseparably from tho circumstances of her niarriage. H«r in.tcl- '■ lectual gifts are brilliant, and she possesses a wonderful voice.
Only a jrear after lxer marriago tho liaiscr (mid a high eompliir.ont to the duchess by sendini? his eldest son to tnli« lioidieori with her, olid ho htis allqvi'od his brother-iii4a\v to receive her as if she were aa archduchess, Sh<t ha.s.favo Bons> When the oldest of thfiin . was boni tho Government refused to allow the Hungarian Parliament to sand' eoiigrat-ulji-tions to the Arcjvdiike. tiro Artii<Uil;c is one of tiro richest nen in (lie world, After Jus . marriage lie was in the bacigtound for a long; time, but with tho years creeping on tho Emperor, who .is "n<iw ciffhty-tlireo, he is coming- into prominence its the future Sovereign whb m&v ho called -apoji any day to tales tho helm. Ho isi already practically tlio Austrian War. Lord, for last August fclie Kraperor invested him with Che offi.ee of Inspectoruenerai o'f the Aiistro-H-jngarian Armr and Navy. .
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 7
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329HEIR TO AUSTRIAN THRONE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 7
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