Austria’s unique survivors
ustrian Emperor Franz Joseph I (1830 to 1916) was also the King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia, and monarch of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He’s a fascinating fellow if you care to dig around in the history files. Not least because quite a few of his closest and dearest came to a premature end during his reign, and this was after he survived an assassination attempt on his own life in 1853, when he was stabbed in the neck, the wound not
