Source: Hapsburger.net Nowhere is Christmas celebrated with so much fervor as at the Austrian Court. A few years ago when Archduchess Marie-Valerie was a child…

Archduke Carl of Austria and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma on their wedding in 1911. On the far left is a happy Emperor Franz Josef. Image from Wikimedia Comm…

Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at his desk in the Vienna Hofburg. Image from Wikimedia Commons Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, the longest of the …