A suitcase forgotten in Canada reveals private Habsburg jewels, including a nearly one-ounce yellow diamond, after a century ...
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 ...
According to The New York Times (1), the 137-carat Florentine Diamond — a jewel of the Habsburg dynasty thought lost, stolen ...
The Florentine Diamond, long thought lost, has finally resurfaced. Turns out, the historic gem was never missing, but locked away in a bank vault in Canada since World War II, according to a November ...
Charles I and his wife Zita, photographed around 1916, fled to Switzerland at the end of World War I. Hulton Archive / Getty Images For decades, the 137-carat yellow diamond that belonged to Europe’s ...
On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...
The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will present “New Year Celebration: Vienna of the Habsburg Dynasty,” on 29 & 30 December ...
The Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans – from the Perspectives of New Imperial History (2022), pp. 422-444 (23 pages) In this essay, I situate the Habsburg ...