Habsburské ženy na cudzích trónoch

Author: Friedrich Weissensteiner
Year of publication
: 001 Publisher: Ikar

Hardcover with dust jacket, number of pages 200.

For centuries, Habsburg duchesses have been well-sold goods on the wedding exchange of European princely courts. They were used to establish or strengthen contacts with other dynasties, to justified and legalized claims on foreign territories and countries. Nobody paid attention to the personal wishes of these young ladies, their personal happiness was not debated. Not all of them, but many of them led unhappy lives alongside their husbands, who often not only matched, but surpassed, their talent, diplomatic dexterity, and mental strength. Each of these five women was sacrificed on the altar of politics. However, each of them went its own way and was struck by its own, mostly tragic fate.

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