A suitcase forgotten in Canada reveals private Habsburg jewels, including a nearly one-ounce yellow diamond, after a century ...

It was a shining family secret for more than 100 years. Descendants of Austria’s royal family have revealed that a missing treasure, a large diamond dating back to the House of Medici whose mysterious ...

Charles I and his wife Zita, photographed around 1916, fled to Switzerland at the end of World War I. Hulton Archive / Getty Images For decades, the 137-carat yellow diamond that belonged to Europe’s ...

According to The New York Times (1), the 137-carat Florentine Diamond — a jewel of the Habsburg dynasty thought lost, stolen ...

The Florentine Diamond, long thought lost, has finally resurfaced. Turns out, the historic gem was never missing, but locked away in a bank vault in Canada since World War II, according to a November ...

On this episode of American Prestige, Natasha Wheatley on the transformation of the Habsburg Empire from a multinational collection of polities to discrete nation-states. Derek Davison and Daniel ...

The Hapsburg family claims the gem, which it secretly kept hidden for decades. By Robin Pogrebin The Austrian government has established a commission of experts to examine whether the country has any ...

The Habsburgs, a notable European royal family, ruled Spain from 1506 to 1700 and held the Holy Roman Empire from 1452 until 1806. Famous for their practice of inbreeding, they often married within ...

The Hungarian Historical Review, Vol. 11, No. 2, Austria-Hungary and the Balkans – from the Perspectives of New Imperial History (2022), pp. 422-444 (23 pages) In this essay, I situate the Habsburg ...

Six days after the death in 1922 of his father—Karl I, last of the ruling Habsburgs—little Franz Josef Otto Robert Maria Anton Karl Maximilian Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus Ludwig Gaetano Pius ...

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