Zita The Last Empress Of Austria
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The Last Empress
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Author : Gordon Brook-Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1991
The Last Empress written by Gordon Brook-Shepherd and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Zita The Last Empress Of Austria
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Author : Leo J. Hammerschmid
language : en
Publisher: Montréal : Meridian Press
Release Date : 1989
Zita The Last Empress Of Austria written by Leo J. Hammerschmid and has been published by Montréal : Meridian Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Austria categories.
Zita The Last Empress Of Austria Grand Daughter Of A King Of Portugal
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Author : Malcolm Stuart Howe
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021
Zita The Last Empress Of Austria Grand Daughter Of A King Of Portugal written by Malcolm Stuart Howe and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Empresses categories.
A Heart For Europe
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Author : James Bogle
language : en
Publisher: Gracewing Publishing
Release Date : 1990
A Heart For Europe written by James Bogle and has been published by Gracewing Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The Shadow Of The Empress
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Author : Larry Wolff
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-02
The Shadow Of The Empress written by Larry Wolff and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-02 with History categories.
A beguiling exploration of the last Habsburg monarchs' grip on Europe's historical and cultural imagination. In 1919 the last Habsburg rulers, Emperor Karl and Empress Zita, left Austria, going into exile. That same year, the fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), featuring a mythological emperor and empress, premiered at the Vienna Opera. Viennese poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal and German composer Richard Strauss created Die Frau ohne Schatten through the bitter years of World War I, imagining it would triumphantly appear after the victory of the German and Habsburg empires. Instead, the premiere came in the aftermath of catastrophic defeat. The Shadow of the Empress: Fairy-Tale Opera and the End of the Habsburg Monarchy explores how the changing circumstances of politics and society transformed their opera and its cultural meanings before, during, and after the First World War. Strauss and Hofmannsthal turned emperors and empresses into fantastic fairy-tale characters; meanwhile, following the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy after the war, their real-life counterparts, removed from political life in Europe, began to be regarded as anachronistic, semi-mythological figures. Reflecting on the seismic cultural shifts that rocked post-imperial Europe, Larry Wolff follows the story of Karl and Zita after the loss of their thrones. Karl died in 1922, but Zita lived through the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the Cold War. By her death in 1989, she had herself become a fairy-tale figure, a totem of imperial nostalgia. Wolff weaves together the story of the opera's composition and performance; the end of the Habsburg monarchy; and his own family's life in and exile from Central Europe, providing a rich new understanding of Europe's cataclysmic twentieth century, and our contemporary relationship to it.
Imperial Requiem
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Author : Justin C. Vovk
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2014-06
Imperial Requiem written by Justin C. Vovk and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Augusta Victoria, Mary, Alexandra, and Zita were four women who were born to rule. In Imperial Requiem, Justin C. Vovk narrates the epic story of four women who were married to the reigning monarchs of Europe's last empires during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Using a diverse array of primary and secondary sources, letters, diary entries, and interviews with descendants, Vovk provides an in-depth look into the lives of four extraordinary women who stayed faithfully at their husbands' sides throughout the cataclysm of the First World War and the tumultuous years that followed. At the centers of these four great monarchies were Augusta Victoria, Germany's revered empress whose unwavering commitment to her bombastic husband made her a national icon; Mary, whose Cinderella story and immense personal strength made her the soul of the British monarchy through some of its greatest crises; Alexandra, the ill-fated tsarina who helped topple the Russian monarchy through her ineffective rule; and Zita, the resolute empress of Austria whose story of loss and exile captivated the world's attention for seven decades. Imperial Requiem shares the fascinating story of four princesses who married for love, graced imperial thrones, and watched as their beloved worlds were torn apart by war, revolution, heartache, and loss.
Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary
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Author : Bertita Harding
language : en
Publisher: Brewster Press
Release Date : 2008-11
Imperial Twilight The Story Of Karl And Zita Of Hungary written by Bertita Harding and has been published by Brewster Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
IMPERIAL TWILIGHT THE STORY OF KARL AND ZITA OF HUNGARY By Bertita Harding Though 1 stop writing, 1 leave much in the in well . . . HORACE DAZANCOT BLUE RIBBON BOOKS GARDEN CITY NEW YORK Blue Ribbon Booths Copyright, 1939, by The Bobbs-Merrill Company a Printed in the United States of America Photo Keller Tan r, Budapest, Karl and Zita in Hungarian coronation robes. To Sri, my mother CONTENTS THE PRINCE 13 THE EMPEROR 63 THE KING, 121 THE WIDOW . .,269 BIBLIOGRAPHY 327 INDEX, 333 ILLUSTRATIONS Karl and Zita in Hungarian coronation robes . Frontispiece FACING PAGE Karls father, Handsome Otto 14 Archduke Rudolfs suicide letter to his wife 15 Archduke Karl at the age of ten 32 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, the former Countess Sofia Chotek 33 Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma at the time of her betrothal 48 Archduke Karl at the time of his betrothal 49 The little Crown Prince Otto between his parents at the funeral of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916 .... 64 Emperor Karl, being anointed as King of Hungary on Royal Hill in Budapest 65 Archduke Otto wearing Hungarian court dress for the cor onation of his parents 80 Prince Sixtus of Bourbon-Parma 81 Empress Zita and her four older children with their gov erness, Countess Schonborn 112 Emperor Karl visiting Sultan Mehmed V and Enver Pasha in Constantinople,113 Zita as Queen of Hungary 128 FACINC Famous Room of Persian Miniatures at Schonbrunn, used as boudoir by Empress Zita 129 Countess Ljubica Bombelles 144 Admiral Horthy, Regent of Hungary ...... 145 Archduke Albrecht, the Hungarian Pretender, wearing the Order of the Golden Fleece 160 Maria Jeritza 161 Budapest, . 192 Grand staircase in Royal Palace at Buda 193 The Emperor-King and hisfamily in exile at Hertenstein Switzerland, ..,, 208 Julius Combos, head of the Honv i Ministry . ., . 209 Karl and Zita attending Mass before the battle of Budaors 240 Tihany Monastery on Lake Balaton ....... 241 The Quinta at Capo do Monte, Madeira ...... 256 Room at Capo do Monte, where died the Emperor Karl . 256 The Emperor Karls tomb at Madeira 257 Archduke Otto at his fathers funeral, 288 Zita and the children during the first year of her widow hood at Lequeitio 289 Castle Steenockerzeel in Brabant, Belgium 304 Archduke Otto in 1938 .... 305 PART ONE THE PRINCE
Last Days In Old Europe
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Author : Richard Bassett
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2019-01-31
Last Days In Old Europe written by Richard Bassett and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-31 with History categories.
The final decade of the Cold War, through the eyes of a laconic and elegant observer In 1979 Richard Bassett set out on a series of adventures and encounters in central Europe which allowed him to savour the last embers of the cosmopolitan old Hapsburg lands and gave him a ringside seat at the fall of another ancien regime, that of communist rule. From Trieste to Prague and Vienna to Warsaw, fading aristocrats, charming gangsters, fractious diplomats and glamorous informants provided him with an unexpected counterpoint to the austerities of life along the Iron Curtain, first as a professional musician and then as a foreign correspondent. The book shows us familiar events and places from unusual vantage points: dilapidated mansions and boarding-houses, train carriages and cafes, where the game of espionage between east and west is often set. There are unexpected encounters with Shirley Temple, Fitzroy Maclean, Lech Walesa and the last Empress of Austria. Bassett finds himself at the funeral of King Nicola of Montenegro in Cetinje, plays bridge with the last man alive to have been decorated by the Austrian Emperor Franz-Josef and watches the KGB representative in Prague bestowing the last rites on the Soviet empire in Europe. Music and painting, architecture and landscape, food and wine, friendship and history run through the book. The author is lucky, observant and leans romantically towards the values of an older age. He brilliantly conjures the time, the people he meets, and Mitteleuropa in one of the pivotal decades of its history.
Princesses Of Bourbon Parma
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Author : Source Wikipedia
language : en
Publisher: University-Press.org
Release Date : 2013-09
Princesses Of Bourbon Parma written by Source Wikipedia and has been published by University-Press.org this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09 with categories.
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 40. Chapters: Princess Irene of the Netherlands, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Maria Luisa of Spain, Duchess of Lucca, Queen Anne of Romania, Louise Elisabeth of France, Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Maria Luisa of Parma, Infanta Alicia, Dowager Duchess of Calabria, Princess Isabella of Parma, Louise Marie Therese d'Artois, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Princess Margarita of Bourbon-Parma, Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimaraes, Princess Maria Immacolata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Carolina, Marchioness of Sala, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Princess Alice of Parma, Princess Carolina of Parma, Princess Maria Teresa of Savoy, Archduchess Marie-Astrid of Austria, Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma, Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Alix, Dowager Princess of Ligne, Princess Marie Gabriele of Luxembourg, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess Margaret of Denmark, Princess Alexandra of Luxembourg, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Princess Elisabeth, Dowager Duchess of Hohenberg, Princess Marie Adelaide of Luxembourg, Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein, Princess Sibilla of Luxembourg, Princess Maria Luisa Carlota of Parma, Princess Maria Antonia of Parma, Princess Maria Francesca of Savoy, Madeleine de Bourbon, Princess Maria Christina of Bourbon-Parma. Excerpt: Her imperial majesty Empress Zita of Austria (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese, princess of Bourbon-Parma; 9 May 1892 - 14 March 1989) was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria. As such, she was the last Empress of Austria, Queen of Hungary, and Queen of Bohemia. Born as the seventeenth child of the dispossessed Robert I, Duke of Parma and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita married the then Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911. Charles became heir...
Last Empress
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Author : Gordon Brooke-Shepherd
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-09
Last Empress written by Gordon Brooke-Shepherd and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09 with categories.