archduke

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Something like this happened when Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated in 1914.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 19, 2026

Its first recorded mention, according to an authorized history, appears in a 1596 inventory of the “Chamber of Art and Wonders” of Archduke Ferdinand at the Ambras Castle in Innsbruck.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025

But all of Archduke Eduard’s aw-shucks baroque kitsch cannot obscure the fact that all the modern horrors that Habsburg laments, from Protestantism and capitalism to secularism and mass democracy, were birthed on his family’s watch.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2023

She also had the backing of an important patron, Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, who had four of her paintings.

From New York Times • Dec. 2, 2022

“This is my cousin Pierre. We visit your country for the first time, and we wish to see the Archduke, who started our—how you say—first Earth war.”

From "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green