CSPAN Q A December 16, 2013
Host put these two people in context. What is an archduke . Guest it was one of the titles given to the royal family the habsburgs that ruled austria hungary. And Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the heir to this empire. His uncle, emperor francis, was getting very old. His wife was a countess, and she was not seen as grand enough to marry a habsburg. So the marriage was she was allowed to marry him but the children would never go out and inherit the throne. She was never given the proper honors of ...
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