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Week 1 September 9, 2024
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Ending End of Chapter 5 Page 65
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I guess I will have to broaden my historical knowledge about Germany while reading this. We only ever learned about Germany (or most of the rest of the world) if it was relevant for Austria. :see_no_evil:

1929 - that’s still Weimarer Republik and only about 10 years after the last Kaiser. :face_with_monocle:
(Very similar timeline to Austria, but here the son of the last Kaiser did not give up his title as Kronprinz until 1961 :upside_down_face:)

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Same here :sweat_smile: I was not very interested in history back when I attended school, and now I realize there is so much history that I don’t think I can ever get to grips with it… (especially all the Habsburg stuff is just sooo intertwined across all of Europe…)

We also still have a prince in Germany (and I just learned that he is an Austrian citizen as well) who is a great-grandson of the last Kaiser and who is mostly known in public through his scandals :crazy_face: Ernst August von Hannover (1954) – Wikipedia (to illustrate the “scandal” aspect: I know him as “Pipi-Prinz” :sweat_drops:)

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In Austria, legally, no one is allowed to have an aristocratic title. The only person allowed back into the country without denouncing her titles was the last empress after her death. But - and this part I find highly ironic - in order to enter the St. Stephan’s Cathedral for burial, she had to symbolically give up all her titles and be known as “Zita, a poor sinner”.

Als die die letzte Kaiserin Österreichs Zita am 1.4.1989 in Wien beigesetzt wurde, wurde auch das letzte Mal das Zeremoniell zum Einlass abgehalten.

Der Trauerzug hielt vor der verschlossenen Türe an, es wurde an die Tür geklopft und von Drinnen ertönte die Stimme des Paters Guardian: „Wer begehrt Einlass?“. Dem Zeremoniell folgend wurden sämtliche Titel des Verstorbenen genannt – in diesem Fall eben: „Zita, Kaiserin von Österreich, Königin von Ungarn, von Böhmen, von Dalmatien, Kroatien, Slavonien, Galizien, Lodomerien, Illyrien…“.

Die Antwort erklang: „Die kenn ich nicht.“ Der Herold klopft ein zweites Mal. Wieder die Stimme: „Wer begehrt Einlass?“ Diesmal antworte der Herold mit der kurzen Bezeichnung, und wieder blieb das Tor geschlossen.

Nach dem dritten Anklopfen und der neuerlichen Frage lautete die Antwort: „Zita, eine arme Sünderin, deren Sünden so zahlreich sind, wie die Sterne am Himmel, einer rechtgläubigen Tochter der katholischen Kirche“. Erst da erklangen die Worte „Sie soll eintreten“.

Edit: I stand corrected. She was allowed to visit Austria in 1982 to visit the grave of her daughter and for “Wallfahrt” to Mariazell. :disguised_face:

I think I have heard of the latter but didn’t know of his name. :rofl:

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Hmmm, so far the book hasn’t really grabbed me, but it’s still early, so maybe that will change with the next reading assignment.

Some of the descriptions made me think this might be a book where the men are not really described and the women all have sexy figures and get detailed descriptions of their looks :sweat_smile: But it is still early, so who knows.

Edit: Oh and imho there was no reason to drop the n-word, it was so out of nowhere and I felt like the author just did it to show that people use it without repercussions :sweat_smile: But I don’t think that adds much to the setting or the general world building, so I was a bit puzzled why it needed to be there… But here as well, maybe it will all make sense when I read more of the book!

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