The EUs real war threat Its own hawks in the east
The bloc has allowed its most war-crazed members to dictate its Russia policies – and now they want to attack Moscow first ...
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New Habsburg research reveals reproductive consequences of royal inbreeding
A new study published in the American Journal of Human Biology has uncovered a significant relationship between family ...
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The truth behind Netflix’s sizzlingly sensuous new series, The Leopard
As The Leopard is released on 5 March, Tatler delves inside the life of its author, Prince of Lampedusa, Giuseppe Tomasi ...
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Who was Empress Maria Theresa of the Holy Roman Empire, the matriarch who was a mother to sixteen children and who ruled for 40 years?
He took the affluent Hapsburg province of Silesia during the War of the Austrian ... She repeatedly scolded her youngest daughter, Marie Antoinette for failing to produce an heir for Louis XVI of ...
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James Stafford: Europe’s Holy Alliance Europe’s Holy Alliance
Their draft was, in turn, heavily edited by the Habsburg foreign minister ... They were animated not so much by Voltaire’s regard for the modernising zeal of the heirs of Peter I, but by the belief ...
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Suleiman the Magnificent: The Most Flamboyant of the Ottoman Sultans
The Habsburg heir sought to unite all European states under the Holy Roman Empire to launch a crusade against Suleiman. Conflict was inevitable. In 1521, just one year after taking power, Suleiman ...
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Maria Theresa: Empress – The Making of the Austrian Enlightenment
During the centuries of Habsburg dominion, there was just one ruling woman. There were plenty of female consorts, of course, but only Maria Theresa claimed the throne, such was the dynasty’s skill – ...