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They went through with the marriage against the Emperor's wishes but had to renounce rights of rank and succession for their children. Unfortunately the Emperor considered the Duchess a commoner and tried to convince Franz Ferdinand he was marrying beneath his station. His marriage to Countess Sophia von Chotkowa und Wognin, Duchess of Hohenburg in 1900 was called one of the world's great love affairs. His home life appears to have been surprisingly better. He lacked the two key elements for success in this social scene - charm and elegance. Shunned by the elite of Viennese society, he was also called "the loneliest man in Vienna". He has been referred to as a miser, a bigot, and a spoiled child. Personal: Much has been said about Franz Ferdinand and very little of it good. These politics were in direct conflict with those of the Serbian nationalists. This would put them on an equal footing with the Magyars and Germans living inside the Austro-Hungarian borders.

One of these ideas was "trialism" - the reorganization of the dual monarchy into a triple monarchy by giving the Slavs an equal voice in the empire. Now it was Franz Ferdinand that would be next in line for the Crown.Ĭonsidered more flexible in matters of military and domestic affairs than his uncle Emperor Franz Josef, he was a reformist with new ideas to be put into practice when he ascended to the Hapsburg throne. The second was the death of his father, Archduke Charles Louis, in 1896. The first was of the Emperor's son, Crown Prince Rudolph, who killed himself (and his sixteen year old mistress) in 1889. Third in line to the throne at one point, he became heir through two untimely deaths. Trenches on the Web - Bio: Archduke Franz Ferdinand