Gates of Vienna News Feed 7/4/2011

The last of the Habsburgs, former Prince Otto Von Habsburg, has died at the age of 98. He was the son of the last Austrian emperor, Karl I, who succeeded Franz Josef during the Great War. Had he not been assassinated in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand would have succeeded to the throne, but Karl became emperor instead. Prince Otto was seven years old when the family titles were abolished and their