Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary, his wife Zita, and their son Crown Prince Otto in the funeral cortege of Emperor Franz Josef. Tsar Ferdinand of Bulgaria walks behind them. Franz Joseph died November 21, 1916, and was buried on November 30.
Der Kaiserpaar mit dem Kronprinzen u. der König von Bulgarien im Leichenzuge Kaiser Franz Josef I.The imperial couple with the Crown Prince and the King of Bulgaria in the funeral procession of Emperor Franz Joseph I.Reverse:Nach Photographien des Pressedienstes des k.u.k. Kriegsministeriums. 1916After photographs of the press service of the k.u.k. [kaiserlich und königlich - imperial and royal] War Ministry. 1916
"On the last afternoon of November, 1916, the massive portal of Vienna's Gothic Cathedral of St. Stephen swung wide so that the corpse of venerable Emperor-King Francis Joseph might pass through on the way to its final resting place in the nearby Church of the Capuchins—in the crowded crypt of the most eminent Austrian Hapsburgs. Emerging from the Cathedral, three close relatives of the deceased ruler took their designated places behind the casket, the new monarch Charles on one side, in the uniform of a Field Marshal, his consort Zita, clothed in the conventional black on the other, and between them the four-year-old Crown Prince Otto, who presumably would one day reign over the strangest and most picturesque realm on the face of Europe."
Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary died on November 21, 1916, and was buried November 30. His crowns and titles — Emperor of Austria and Apostolic King of Hungary — passed to Karl, son of the late brother of the assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
The Passing of the Hapsburg Monarchy, 1914-1918 2 Volumes by Arthur James May, page 422, copyright © 1966 by the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, publication date: 1966
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