HUNGARIAN THRONE

Manawatu Herald, Volume L, Issue 3895, 15 January 1929, Page 1

HUNGARIAN THRONE

TWO ASPIRANTS. There has been received in London the intimate story of the life in exile of the ex-Crown Prince Otto, the son ol the ex-Emperor Karl of Austria-Hun-gary, and the boy who would be king. He was 16 years of age on November 20 and in two years from that date will be legally entitled to prosecute his claim to the Crown of Hungary, where a Regent still rules in the person of Admiral Horthy. Meantime Prince Otto has received an education with one object only—to make him a king. His mother, the ex-Empress Zita, has dedicated her life to the project. He is already treated as a king and as a soldier. Every day lie devotes certain hours to the study of warfare. One room in his home in the Basque country, in Spain, is devoted to military matters and is fitted up so that soldier tutors may moveminiature troops, heavy and light artillery, and aeroplanes as in real warfare. The Prince learns history also, taught entirely from the monarchist point of view. His geography shows the former Austro-Hungarian empire untouched by the shears of the Treaty of Trianon. So little does he know of the war that he thinks he will return to a country as large and as powerful as before 1914. The consuming ambition of the exEmpress is to see her son on the throne of Hungary. But the ex-Crown Prince Otto’s cousin, Albrecht, is also an aspirant to the crown. He has powerful backing—backing which the ex-Em-press fears. The Archduke f Albrecht is the son of the Archduke Friedrich, the Comman-der-in-Chief of the Austro-Hungarian forces during the war.