Netflix has done an incredible job of chronicling Britain’s Royal Family over the years through their The Crown series. Amid that programs’s success, the streamer hasn’t been afraid to dive further ...

The man behind the salvation of Emperor and King Franz Joseph I, in 1853, Maximilian Karl Lamoral Graf O'Donnell Von Tyrconnell's paternal lineage traces back to County Mayo and further still to Niall ...

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A young Bosnian Serb had one plan to free his people from the monarchy of Austria-Hungary: kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the crown. The intricate assassination plan ended up setting off a ...

Editor's Note: The following contains spoilers for The Empress Season 2. Season 2 of The Empress was action-packed and memorable. In the season finale, Emperor Franz Joseph (Philip Froissant) faces ...

On the early summer morning of June 28, 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand—heir presumptive to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire—was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip, one of a ...

Views of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and an entourage of military officers and civilians walking down a wide avenue; the street is lined with people greeting the Emperor. Interior ...

On November 30, 1916, with World War I still raging, the people of Vienna poured into the streets to pay their last respects to Franz Josef I, who had been their emperor for 68 years. His death ended ...