Friday, November 12, 2010

Archduke Joseph renounces rights

November 12, 1918

Budapest newspapers received in Berne "contain details of a remarkable ceremony in which Archduke Joseph of Austria and his son, Archduke Josef Franz," renounced their titles and took an oath to the Hungarian constitution "as simple Hungarian citizens named Habsburg," according to the New York Times.  The two men gave up all imperial privileges.

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