HAPSBURG PRINCES HAVE TO WORK
NONE OF THEM AFRAID OF BOURGEOIS LIFE
By F. C. M. JAHN
Vienna, Mar. 25. The uncles, cousins and other kin of Otto of Hapsburg, exiled heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, are having a hard time meeting bills. from the butcher and baker, a United Press survey discloses,
Many of them, all Archdukes and Archduchesses of royal blood, were left in dire circumstances when the republican government of Austria confiscated the Hapsburg properties in 1919.
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One became an insurance agent, another went to Hollywood, another became a small farmer, another a grain merchant, another an aviator, while the rest lived as best they could.
Ferdinand,
All of them faced their difficulties Maximilian is now forty years old in a cheerful and dignified way and and married to a Princess of tried to make their Being as ordin-Hohenlohe. He has two sons of ary mortals. Naturally, they all 17 and ten years respectively.
Archduke Joseph awaft turn in their fortunes, if and when Otto returns to his who at first commanded an array in father's throne. Archduke Maxi- the War, and later became Com- millan, the only brother of the Inte mander of the Austrian-Hungarian Emperor Charles, carns his living Air Forces, runs a small peasant's as an agent for a British Insurance form near Salzburg. concern. Previously he bad gone The Archduke, who is 63 years to Spain, where he took an active old, morganatically married part in a company for the reclaim bourgeois widow in 1921. This ing and the improvement of land marrinize ended by divorce in 1928. along the Guadalquivir. The com-The next year he made a second pany in which the Archduke had in-morganatic marringe, by which he vested his rather restricted capital | has two children. was, however, unable to carry on, His eldest brother, Peter Fer- owing to shortage of funds and had dinand, married to a Princess of to quinte a few years ago. Bourbon, lives with his family
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in very modest circumstances at from their mother, the Archduchess Lucerno in Switzerland.
Mario Valorie, who was a daughter of Emperor Francis Joseph.
The younger brother, Henry Ferdinand, who had also contracted amorganatic marriage, maken the living 68 a talented painter and etcher in Salzburg. Of his four children, one son is still studying, while the other three are support ing themselves.
WEDS PRINCESS
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IN BUSINESS
MARCH 27, 1935.
fessions, Including film acting and running a grocery store. Ho is now living in very narrow cir- cumstances in Berlin,
his
They have been hard hit by the prevailing world agricultural crisis.. Duke Max of Hohenberg, the 'son The children of the so-called of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, "Polish" Archduke Charles Steplan presumptive heir to the throne, who are living in Gallein. Three of was assassinated in Sarajevo a them have become Polish citizens, month before the World War broke and are officers in the Polish army, out, does not officially belong to the The eldest son is working as a foined the Anti-Bolshevik ranka of mother was not of royal blood, the
while the fourth, Archduke William, Hapsburg family. Because farm-advisor, while two daughters, the Ukrainians under the name of children were excluded from the Agnes and Germana, are running Vassili Wyshywany. This Arch- succession to the throne, Hels, A hotel in Gastein, Austria's duke, who at one time was con- however, very active in the Legiti famous Spa.
sidered as J Pretender to the mist ease. He lives in his castle Ucrafalan throne, la now living in of Amstetten, and manages his Paris.
middle-sized estate very capably, Archduke Anton, 34-year-old son: of Archduke Leopold Salvator,
Legitimist circles point out with former inspector-general of the His brothers are now successful-pride that none of the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Artillers, was operating various agricultural princes, although many of them renowned dying teacher in Bar-and industrial enterprises, such as were in dire need, ever became a celona before he became wealthy by breweries and sugar factorice, in- burden to the state or applied for his marriage to Princess Ileana of herited from their father.
help from the Government, but Roumania.
Anton continues to
| courageously tried to earn their take a great interest in aviation of the former Austro-Hungarian
Archduke Eugen, Field-marshal own living. He has three aeroplanes and his own small acrodromo at his castle years ago. The 72-year-old buche-indicate that Prince Oito of Haps Army; returned to Vienna three Meanwhile advices from Louvala of Sonnberg near Vienna. He is or is living in modest retirement burg will soon obtain his degree as working on technical improvements in Vienna. to affect greater safety in flying.
Doctor of Law there. He has suc Anton is also an excellent wireless
cessfully passed his oral examina. His elder brother, Archduke Fre-tions and his dissertation is now in operator.
derick, who was a Commander-in: print. As soon as it, is published, Anton's elder brother, Archduke Army during the War, la still con- ly conferred upon the young prince. Chief of the Austro-Hungarian the doctor's degree will be formal- Leopold, opened a grain wai-
sidered the richest among the news
In Vienna which did not Hapsburg princes, although he lost torical developments of the
He chose for, his thesis the his- prosper and was liquidated recent two-thirds of his fortune by con- sants' rights in the Tyrol. ly. He spent some time in. Holly- wood film studios and now, lives
properties in mostly in Parle,
fiscation of hla
pen-
Czecho-Slovakia and in Poland. He read the manuscript, It is a very According to persons who have lives in Hungary and his son thorough study written from a
Hungarian
the
Leopold was married to a Baron. Albrecht was considered once as a liberal viewpoint. Some of Otto's ess Milcolics. The marringe
was candidate for dissolved In 1929. The
song throne. of Theodor,
Archdukes Francis, Hubert, The former Archduke Leopold and Clement Salva resigned his membership in the tor, devoted themselves to Imperial family and assumed the arigculture. They
personally siame of Leopold Woelfling long be Danube, which manage minor estates along the fore the War. In his picturesque
they inherited career, he has had many
friends fear the study might not And unanimous applause among the legitimists in Hungary, whore the large estate-owning nobility is pre- ponderant and for centuries has been accustomed to deal with the peasants la the old-fashioned pro-patriarchal way.-United Press.
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