Making five centuries of Habsburg history fun seems like a tall order, but Winder pulls it off. He entertains because he is entertained. His sprawling history of a dynastic empire that began in the ...

The recent burial of Otto von Habsburg – his body in Vienna, his heart in Hungary – drew attention to one of the most powerful families in European history. For centuries the Habsburg dynasty ruled ...

Belknap/Harvard University Press, $35.00, 592 pages Visitors to present-day Vienna sometimes feel as if they have wandered into a vast, open-air museum, or perhaps a particularly well-managed theme ...

On Nov. 1, 1921, the last Habsburg emperor of Austria-Hungary, Charles I, left Vienna for good. His empire, the second-largest state in Europe, had already disintegrated at the end of the First World ...

The emperor Rudolph II as the ancient Roman god Vertumnus, by the court artist Arcimboldo Credit: Photo: Image Asset Management Ltd/Alamy What does the phrase “Austria-Hungary” conjure up in your mind ...

Sign up to our free newsletter for the latest analysis on Brexit's impact When Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen was at school, his history teacher would be going through an ...

Full disclosure: I ate their lunch, and so I’m guilty as charged if accused of biting the hand that fed me. Or maybe “snapping at” would be a better term, since I don’t expect to tear flesh or draw ...

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) presented at his morning conference an image of the second emperor of Mexico, Maximilian of Habsburg, in which the European ruler can be seen standing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen is now Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican (Hungary Embassy) When Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen was at ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...