
01 Dec 1913

Cheshire Territorials at Abergaveny
A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.
The Habsburg Dynasty had ruled large parts of Europe and the world for 650 years. During World War I, however, the mighty Austro-Hungarian Empire sowed the seeds of its own demise. At the height of World War I, the world of the Habsburgs was on the brink of collapse. Almost exactly 100 years ago to the day, in April 1918, the most sensitive diplomatic mission of the First World War became a Europe-wide scandal: the so-called "Sixtus Affair". Secret negotiations between the Austrian imperial family and France were supposed to bring peace to the Danube monarchy – and their failure caused the war to escalate and the Habsburgs to fall.
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Kaiser Karl

Kaiserin Zita

Tamás Graf Erdödy
King George V
Prinz Sixtus von Bourbon-Parma
Außenminister Graf Ottokar Czernin

Kaiser Wilhelm II
Paul von Hindenburg
Captain Athur Snagge
Erich Ludendorff
Prinz Xavier de Bourbon-Parma

01 Dec 1913

A holiday of sorts for Stockport army reserves, fitting high-jinks between drills over two weeks of summer training in South Wales.

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31 Dec 2008

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