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1royalhistorian
Apr 9, 2007, 6:26 am

Does anyone has good recommendations on the Austrian royal family and royal jewels?

2arkham
Apr 18, 2007, 10:56 pm

I don't know of anything on royal jewels...not my area, and I don't know of anything on the current family...but I read Fall of Eagles by Sulzberger some years ago and I seem to recall it was pretty good.

3royalhistorian
Apr 25, 2007, 7:38 am

I mean the old Austrian royal family, so I just might try out that book. Thanks!

Are you perhaps looking for recommendations?

4mrlibrarian
May 3, 2007, 11:06 pm

Fall of the Eagles is a good one but it is not very in depth and unfortunately most of the good books about the Austrian royal family are printed in German. Here are a couple about Empress Elizabeth (Sissi): The Lonely Empress by Joan Haslip and Sissi: Empress of Austria, by Brigitte Hamann. There is also a good but older book about her by Egon Corti but I can't remember the title right now. There are also several good books in English about Maximilian and Carlota, if you would like titles let me know.

5dwsact
Jul 7, 2007, 11:38 am

The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire by Andrew Wheatcroft is a decent account of the rise and fall of the Habsburg dynasty in Austria as well as in Spain.

6surly
Edited: Aug 11, 2007, 11:44 am

7royalhistorian
Apr 8, 2013, 4:57 pm

The biographies by John van der Kiste on the Austrian royals, are they any good?