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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 ...
The EU's 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 ...
Tatler25d
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 ...
Tatler17d
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 ...
London Review of Books9d
James Stafford: Europe’s Holy Alliance Europe’s Holy Alliance
Undeterred by Napoleon’s brief return to power in 1815, Alexander sought to confirm his status as Europe’s saviour with the publication, on Christmas Day, of a treaty between himself and the crowned ...
The Financial Times23d
The Golden Throne — a romp through Suleiman the Magnificent’s ‘Succession’ years
The Christian rulers of Venice, France and Tudor England all vied for alliances with Suleiman, fearing him even more than the other great global ruler of the day, the Habsburg emperor Charles V.
Counterfire19h
Stealing Horses to Great Applause: The Origins of the First World War Reconsidered – book review
The late American historian Paul Schroeder’s interpretation of the causes of World War I focuses on the breakdown of a ...
malevus29d
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 ...