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FINALLY watched Mališa (1987) just for this scene ngl 💀🤡✌️
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It's them
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cparti-mkiki · 2 years
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@master-of-the-opera-house BIRTH
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playitagin · 9 months
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1900-Franz Ferdinand and Sophie
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In 1894, Franz Ferdinand met Countess Sophie Chotek, a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella, wife of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen.[23] Franz began to visit Archduke Friedrich's villa in Pressburg (now Bratislava), and in turn Sophie wrote to Franz Ferdinand during his convalescence from tuberculosis on the island of Lošinj in the Adriatic. They kept their relationship a secret,[24] until it was discovered by Isabella herself.
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In 1899, under pressure from family members (especially the Archduchess Maria Theresa, the emperor's formidable sister-in-law and Franz Ferdinand's stepmother) the couple were granted permission to wed.[3] Franz Ferdinand was allowed to retain his place in the order of succession and a suitable title was promised for his future wife. However, to prevent Franz Ferdinand from attempting to proclaim his wife empress-queen or declaring their future children dynasts and thus eligible to inherit the crown (especially that of Hungary, where morganatic marriages were unknown to law) once he ascended the throne, he was compelled to appear at the Hofburg Imperial Palace before the gathered archdukes, ministers, and dignitaries of the court, the Cardinal-Archbishop of Vienna and the Primate of Hungary on 28 June 1900 to execute by signature an official instrument in which he publicly declared that Sophie would be his morganatic wife, never to bear the titles of empress, queen or archduchess, and acknowledging that their descendants would neither inherit nor be granted dynastic rights or privileges in any of the Habsburg realms.
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The wedding took place on 1 July 1900, at Reichstadt (now Zákupy) in Bohemia; Franz Joseph did not attend the affair, nor did any archduke including Franz Ferdinand's brothers.
The couple had four children:[4]
Princess Sophie of Hohenberg (1901–1990), married Count Friedrich von Nostitz-Rieneck (1891–1973)
Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg (1902–1962), married Countess Elisabeth von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee (1904–1993). Ironically his descendants married descendants of the Royal Houses of France and Portugal and Austria (Archduke Joseph Arpad).
Prince Ernst of Hohenberg (1904–1954), married Marie-Therese Wood (1910–1985)
stillborn son (1908)
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archduchessofnowhere · 11 months
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Isekai light novel/manga in which the MC reincarnates as archduke Franz Ferdinand and has to prevent WWI from happening
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Famous Czech beauty, 1890s.
Countess Sophie Chotek, wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria.
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best-habsburg-monarch · 4 months
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Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, etc. Reigned 1848-1916
Challenge: Talk about his reign without talking about wife a lot (impossible)
from anon:
Dual Monarchy. HELLO.
Constitution! (Italy immediately declared war after but ya know)
Survived assassination attempts
Doesn't lose territory to Prussian unification which is something I guess
Shares 2 names with Hayden
from @minetteskvareninova:
Franz Joseph propaganda (proper):
as much of a poor little meow meow as Joseph II.
also known as Starej Procházka (ask @archduchessofnowhere I promise it's hillarious)
wholesome friendship with Katharina Schratt
was there not for a good time, but a long time certainly, and unlike queen Victoria doesn't even get the dignity of an era named after him!!!
girldad (better not ask about his son)
loved the great god Mars, even though Mars did not love him back, wore uniform all the fucking time, but his actually military record was. well. gotta love a boyfailure.
conservative in principle, but smart enough to know when to fold 'dem (which is why the former monarchy didn't end up like Russia)
from anon:
Anti-Franz Joseph Propaganda: Yes, the sideburns are iconic, but when you are a reigning emperor for 68 years and your signature facial hair is colloquially named after a minor U.S. Civil War general instead, you fumbled the bag.
anti Franz Joseph propaganda: he was an older sibling (derogatory)
from @master-of-the-opera-house:
MARRIED HIS FIRST COUSIN WHEN THEY WERE BEGINNING TO FIGURE OUT THIS HABSBURG INCEST SHIT DON'T WORK
EVEN THO THE POPE SAID NO
Sissi was a babe tho i get him BUT THEN
THEN HE GAVE HER AN STD AND TOOK A MISTRESS
Didn't drink his respect cousin-wife juice apparently
CAUSED CROWN PRINCE RUDOLF TO COMMIT
CLASSIST PIECE OF SHIT didn't allow franz ferdinand to marry sophie chotek
And then literally said "thank God" when he died
Somehow still had the people's support as a poor old man who lost everyone close to him when he either indirectly caused that or just didn't give a shit
a Leo ♌🤢
They wasted such a pretty face and such a snatched waist on such a cunt
Had he stayed alive any longer and he would've been at the negotiating table at the hall of mirrors in 1918 *shivers*
THOROUGHLY UNFUNNY """""desk bound monarch"""""" stringent for protocol """last of the old school monarchs"""" and didn't even cause any nonsense catastrophes that usually accompanies this stick up the arse
68 long monotonous years on the throne then couldn't even make 69 for the joke
Fredrick III, Holy Roman Emperor, reigned 1452-1493
Kicked off the whole tradition of being Holy Roman Emperors
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georgefairbrother · 5 months
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June 30th, 1914, was the final day of a goodwill visit by the Royal Navy to Kiel, Germany’s principal Baltic naval base, having arrived on June 23rd. The squadron included battleships Ajax, King George V, Audacious, and several light cruisers.
The Kaiser paraded in his Royal Navy Admiral’s uniform (a title courtesy of Queen Victoria), and British and German sailors mingled and entertained each other drinking, dancing and boxing. It was reported that the assassinations of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Countess Sophie Chotek, in Sarajevo, dampened the joyous mood a little, but did not ultimately undermine what was described by an American correspondent as an 'Anglo German love-feast’.
Not everyone was totally caught up in the festivities. A senior RN officer, Captain Henderson, found an imaginative way to report on the state of Germany’s naval preparedness, and that Britain's dominance of the high seas was under significant threat.
"...I think it would not be out of place here, to call your attention to the striking progress made by the German Navy in sports and games. Speaking generally, our men were entirely outclassed in all the usual sports, running, jumping, and in the tug-of war, the Germans simply walked away with it. The Germans have systematically invaded what we have hitherto regarded as our natural preserve…the world of sport..."
As the RN squadron departed, a German Admiral sent, 'Best wishes for a pleasant journey’, to which the British commanding officer responded with thanks and the reply, 'Comrades in the past, and always'.
Sources: Roads to the Great War, 1914 - Day by Day (BBC Radio 4, by Margaret MacMillan), The Telegraph
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inky-duchess · 1 month
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If a king married for the second time in a morganatic marriage, would their spouse be considered a queen consort and would they have the same responsibilities as one?
No, they would not be Queen nor would they take on any ceremonial duties (but could take on smaller tasks such as the maintaining of court, hosting events and education of the children). However, sometimes a morganatic marriage allows the spouse to carry the title Queen and the duties that goes along with it. This is usually up the royal family and/or government. Look up Madame de Maintenon, Katya Dolgorukova (Princess Yurievskaya), Countess Sophie Chotek von Wognin, Elizabeth Woodville
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sartorialadventure · 2 years
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Sophie Chotek, as Duchess of Hohenberg by Franz Dvorak/František Dvořák. Probably circa 1910s.
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^Photo from 1910s
Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Their assassination in Sarajevo sparked a series of events that eventually led to World War I.
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fitzrove · 4 days
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OMG FASCINATING. I had no idea but fun fact, the austrian ambassador to belgium when rudolf and stephanie got engaged (-> had a pretty central role in the ceremonial proceedings) was sophie chotek's father (= franz ferdinand's future father in law)
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POV: you are a noble in the same room as your emperor Franz Joseph at a function and he is having a stroke and you have no idea why until you see this* going on from the corner of your eye
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Franz Ferdinand and Sophie Chotek truly the straight people love story for gay people. Siri send tweet.
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yespat49 · 10 months
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Il y a cent ans, le 28 juin 1914 : l’attentat de Sarajevo
Le 28 juin 1914, à Sarajevo, Gavrilo Princip, un membre du groupe nationaliste Jeune Bosnie (ou Mlada Bosna), tue l’archiduc François-Ferdinand, héritier de l’empire austro-hongrois, et sa femme la comtesse Sophie Chotek, au moment où leur accession au trône semblait imminente. Cet attentat de Sarajevo fut l’événement déclencheur de la Première Guerre mondiale. Continue reading Untitled
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playitagin · 9 months
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1914-Sarajevo
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*Archduke Franz Ferdinand Carl Ludwig Joseph Maria of Austria[a] (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was the heir presumptive to the throne of Austria-Hungary. Franz Ferdinand was the eldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, the younger brother of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Following the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889 and the death of Karl Ludwig in 1896, Franz Ferdinand became the heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His courtship of Sophie Chotek, a lady-in-waiting, caused conflict within the imperial household, and their morganatic marriage in 1900 was only allowed after he renounced his descendants' rights to the throne. Franz Ferdinand held significant influence over the military, and in 1913 he was appointed inspector general of the Austro-Hungarian armed forces.
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*Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg (German: Sophie Marie Josephine Albina Gräfin Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin; Czech: Žofie Marie Josefína Albína hraběnka Chotková z Chotkova a Vojnína; 1 March 1868 – 28 June 1914) was the wife of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. She was born in Stuttgart as the fourth daughter of Count Bohuslav Chotek von Chotkow und Wognin and his wife, Countess Wilhelmine Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau (1838–1886). Her father was a Bohemian aristocrat, by birth member of an old House of Chotek, who served as Austrian Ambassador to the royal courts Stuttgart, Saint Petersburg and Brussels. As a young woman, Sophie became a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella,[3] the wife of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen, head of the Bohemian cadet branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine.
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What are your favourite non-fiction book about the Habsburgs?
Hello! Sorry it took me so long to answer!
My favorite book about the Habsburgs is actually one that it's not about the main people I tend to talk about in this blog (aka from the time of Franz Josef): Barbara Stollber-Rillinger’s biography of Empress Maria Theresia, which is not just a biography but THE book about the 18th century Habsburg empire, period. She covers EVERYTHING: how the Maria Theresia myth originated, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years War, court rituals, marriage alliances, education policies, religious policies, political reforms, the complex relationship between the Empress and her children (each child gets their own chapter), just to name a few of the book’s subjects. It is an academical book so the prose is kinda dry, and if you’re not used to read this kind of scholarly work it may be a bit difficult to get through, but I don’t think it’s particularly hard to read. It did took me months to read it but because it’s a LONG book (over 1000 pages) and I did find some parts a bit tedious (mainly the ones related to the political reforms, the subject just doesn’t interest me a lot), but in other parts I was so hooked that I couldn’t stop reading. If you're looking for a more personal biography of the empress you might find this one disappointing since the author doesn't focus too much on that (“no false intimacy with Maria Theresa will be presumed. The heroine shall be kept at arm’s length.”), but otherwise I highly recommend it.
Leaving the world of academic writing and entering into pop history, surprisingly my favorite book that I’ve read so far is Joan Haslip’s 1982 The Emperor and the actress. This books is neither a biography of Emperor Franz Josef nor Katharina Schratt, but a book about their relationship, how they met and became unlikely best friends. Haslip still does this thing in which she doesn’t cite anything BUT she does quote lots of letters and explicitly says “now I’m quoting a letter”, which made this problem less annoying. Possibly there may be better books about Katharina (there are newer and more updated ones in German for sure), but in English this remains the best source about the actress, and because of that I was completely hooked. It was also my introduction to Bulgarian history and royalty, which I knew nothing about before (fun fact Katharina was also besties with future Tsar Ferdinand and Franz Josef was jealous of him because of it lol). It isn’t a perfect book by any means, but I’m very fond of it nonetheless (example on how this books isn’t perfect at all: Haslip says once that Sophie Chotek was ugly which is just CRAZY, she was gorgeous!!!).
In the memoirs area I really enjoyed Stephanie of Belgium’s. While the view she gives of the Viennese court is obviously biased, I liked to have her version of the story, because I felt that it was overall balanced (yes, even with the complaining about her unfair treatment and all). She also provides some of Rudolf’s letters, which is nice.
I’ve only scratched the top of the iceberg that is Rudolf and Mayerling books, so I don’t really have a favorite here. I’ve read Greg King and Penny Wilson’s Twilight of Empire which I thought was a good introduction to the subject, mainly because there is a whole section of the book in which the authors go in-depth about the history of Mayerling books from the first one ever published, focusing on how reliable they are based on the author and the sources they had access to; which I think is a very useful reading guide to get fully into the subject (on the other hand, I did find the biography part of the book was just ok).
On books about Empress Elisabeth, I already mentioned some in this ask.
To be honest I’ve been avoiding the “big” Habsburg books, in part because they lowkey intimidate me (there are so many both in academic and pop history, where do you even begin?), and in part because I fear that I will find them unsatisfactory (I rather read a 500 pages long book that goes into detail in, idk, Charles V’s life and reign than a “History of the Habsburgs” book that only gives him 20 pages). HOWEVER I’ve been researching which are the books that seem like the best on different subjects so I’ve already got a reading list ready for my hot girl summer.
Thank you for your question!
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