Jakob Fugger wasn’t just Europe’s richest man - he was one of its most influential power brokers. His financial backing helped secure the rise of the Habsburg dynasty, shaping royal succession, ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...

Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...

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The Hapsburg family claims the gem, which it secretly kept hidden for decades. By Robin Pogrebin The Austrian government has established a commission of experts to examine whether the country has any ...

This programme features waltzes, polkas and march by the “King of Waltz” Johann Strauss (ii) and his family, alongside Brahms's ever-popular Hungarian Dances and Liszt's brilliant Hungarian Rhapsodies ...