Due to a unique set of circumstances at the beginning of the 16th century, a teenage monarch inherited much of Europe, ...

The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and ...

Near the end of the 17th century, Emperor Leopold I of Austria took refuge in the Shrine of Mary Help of Christians at Pasau, when 200,000 Ottoman Turks besieged the capital city of Vienna ...

It briefly housed the Emperor of Mexico in the 1860s – the only building ... Perched high above the Salzach River Valley in Austria, it is hard to imagine this imposing medieval mountaintop castle ...

Everywhere you turn in Austria, history comes alive ... Imperial Palace and Imperial Court Church, and gaze up at Emperor Maximilian I’s iconic Golden Roof. Above the 800-year-old city of ...

Kraehe later put it. The Austrian chancellor, Prince Klemens von Metternich, softened the wording because Napoleon was still the son-in-law of the emperor of Austria, and the Duke of Wellington ...

The German-speaking principality of Liechtenstein – a 25km-long country between Austria and Switzerland – is in mourning ... on their big day Princess Marie was the daughter of Count Ferdinand Carl ...

Ferdinand I of Austria’s parents were Holy Roman Emperor Francis II and Marie-Therese, double first cousins, whose genetic closeness took a serious toll on Ferdinand I. Ferdinand was born with ...

nee Princess Louise Augusta of Baden alexander i of russia stock illustrations Portraits of Emperor Alexander I of Russia (1777-1825), with his... The founders of the Holy Alliance ,Frederick William ...