The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

Born in 1979, Estelle married Carl Christian – the 47-year-old great-grandson of Emperor Charles I of Austria ... Archduke Karl von Habsburg, Carl Christian's cousin, is the current head ...

Emperor Napoleon’s Grande Armée faced off against an allied Austro-Russian army near Austerlitz (Slavkov u Brna, Czech Republic). By enticing the enemy to attack his understrength right flank, ...

MahlerFest returns to Boulder on Wednesday and runs through May 18 with a program that embraces defiance, protest, resistance ...

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 ...

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 ...

These days, the Hofburg Palace is residence and office of the President of Austria, however extensive ... named after Empress Elisabeth, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, with more than 300 objects ...

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 ...

One of the finest baroque palaces in Europe, Schönbrunn was one of the first places in Austria ... as Emperor Franz Joseph, his wife Elisabeth (better known as Sisi) and Archduke Franz Karl.

The Kingdom of England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state. 1544: Turkish troops occupy Hungary. 1700: ...

Shortly thereafter, President Trump posted on Truth Social: “I don’t need to have Karl Rove of FoxNews to tell me what to do. The guy’s a total Loser who’s been wrong about almost ...