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New book outlines seven monarchial principles rooted in Catholic living.
ROME — The Catholic faith and traditions of the Habsburg monarchies helped them enjoy mostly stable marriages and large, happy families that were crucial in governing their kingdoms for more than eight centuries.
Now, some of those principles they lived — and died — by have been recorded in a book by Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, a direct descendent of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916), an archduke of Austria, and Hungary’s current ambassador to the Holy See.
In this April 18 interview with the Register in Rome on the day the Italian edition of his book The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times was launched, Habsburg discusses these and other principles that he believes all people can learn from in this troubled age when marriage and the family are especially under attack.
In doing so, he also recalls a poignant story regarding the execution of Habsburg Queen of France Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution; the contributions of Emperor Charles V, the Habsburg ruler during the Reformation; and the example of the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, Otto von Habsburg, who famously resisted the Nazis. He closes with words of Henry Kissinger about the Habsburg dynasty, given just six weeks before he died.
Ambassador Habsburg, what prompted you to write the book?
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ROME — The Catholic faith and traditions of the Habsburg monarchies helped them enjoy mostly stable marriages and large, happy families that were crucial in governing their kingdoms for more than eight centuries.
Now, some of those principles they lived — and died — by have been recorded in a book by Eduard Habsburg-Lothringen, a direct descendent of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916), an archduke of Austria, and Hungary’s current ambassador to the Holy See.
In this April 18 interview with the Register in Rome on the day the Italian edition of his book The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times was launched, Habsburg discusses these and other principles that he believes all people can learn from in this troubled age when marriage and the family are especially under attack.
In doing so, he also recalls a poignant story regarding the execution of Habsburg Queen of France Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution; the contributions of Emperor Charles V, the Habsburg ruler during the Reformation; and the example of the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary, Otto von Habsburg, who famously resisted the Nazis. He closes with words of Henry Kissinger about the Habsburg dynasty, given just six weeks before he died.
Ambassador Habsburg, what prompted you to write the book?
Continued below.
‘The Habsburg Way’: Lessons for Today, From Openness to Life to How to Die Well
New book outlines seven monarchial principles rooted in Catholic living.
