A facial deformity known as "Habsburg jaw," famously noted in the Habsburg dynasty of Spanish and Austrian royals, can be attributed to inbreeding. According to a new study published in the Annals of ...

Finished by the First World War and buried under the nation states that succeeded it, the Habsburg monarchy had survived for ...

A centerpiece of the jewelry collection is the 137-carat Florentine Diamond, a celebrated gem whose disappearance led to ...

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King Charles II of Spain was the last in the Habsburg line and one of the most afflicted with the facial deformity The Habsburgs came seemingly from nowhere (but specifically from Austria) to take ...

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 ...

There’s a certain allure surrounding diamonds lost to history, if not only for their beauty and value, for the mystery and intrigue their disappearance stirred up, which is exactly what happened with ...

A historic diamond has finally been located after disappearing during the aftermath of World War I in the early 1900s.

If the Austro-Hungarian Empire still existed, Ferdinand Habsburg would be next in line to sit on the throne, instead he will be sharing a driver's seat this weekend in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ...

There’s something a bit weird about seeing a Habsburg pop up on Twitter. If 54-year-old Eduard Habsburg’s surname seems familiar, that’s because his family ruled Austria for more than six centuries.

Habsburg has recalled as an epiphany the day he first spontaneously answered the nationality question with “I am a European,” but his definition of that term was steeped in a rudely Huntingtonian ...

In 1914, the Habsburg empire’s fatal combination of belligerence and weakness triggered World War I and, four years later, the empire’s own dissolution. This graceful account of Habsburg diplomacy ...