To protect the Habsburg family’s treasures, Charles ordered the royal jewels to be sent to Switzerland, where he and his ...

A legendary jewel of the Hapsburg dynasty — not seen since 1919 and thought lost, stolen or recut — has actually been safe in ...

Hungarian Empire collapsed, the priceless jewels belonging to the Habsburg family vanished as well, including the fabled ...

The Florentine diamond, thought to have been stolen or lost in 1919, was secretly preserved by the Habsburg dynasty and is now in a bank vault in Canada. This was reported by The New York Times (NYT) ...

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 ...

Palest yellow and large as a quail’s egg, the Florentine Diamond is among history’s most fabled gemstones. Its 137 carats, intricately cut, passed through the hands of one European dynasty after ...

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

As Richard Bassett’s superb book For God and Kaiser shows, Austria’s army expressed the idea that dynastic, cultural and economic relations were more important than national identity. Richard Bassett, ...

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 ...

Tatana Markova became intrigued by a once-great Bohemian dynasty that’s been nearly forgotten after meeting one of its ...

BERLIN — Otto von Habsburg saw the crumbling of the empire his family had ruled for centuries and emerged from its ashes as a champion of a united and democratic Europe. The oldest son of ...