Imagine being born a prince or princess of one of Europe’s greatest dynasties…
…and by the time you’re old enough to remember anything, the empire is gone.
In 1916, Karl I became the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary.
Together with his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, he had eight children – heirs to palaces in Vienna, Budapest, Prague, and beyond.
But after the collapse of 1918, those children didn’t grow up in glittering courts. They grew up in boarding houses, borrowed estates, and cramped rooms in exile – moving from country to country with a widowed mother, a forbidden name, and a past that Europe was trying very hard to forget.
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