An Imperial Birthday
Gerald Warner has a splendid post over on his Daily Telegraph blog on Crown Prince Otto’s ninety-sixth birthday. Heavens! how time flies. It seemed like only yesterday was his ninety-fifth.
My favorite scene that Gerald mentions is this one:
The first sign the [Hungarian Communist] regime was collapsing had come in a cinema in Budapest when a newsreel featuring European parliamentarians, thought innocuous by the censor, suddenly showed Otto, and the whole audience rose and sang the royal anthem.
Bravo, Budapest. And Hoch Habsburg!
11:39 am
Eljen!! And many happy returns!
10:59 pm
what a joy to see Otto still about…his enduring presence amongst us mortals is a bit of comforting hope…of that great ‘what if’ and of the hope that is to come in that longed for restoration.
God bless and keep Otto and the Imperial family.