Question: Who was the last surviving member of the Hapsburg family?

Karl von Habsburg






Austrian imperial family
HI&RH Archduke Karl
HI&RH Archduchess Francesca
HI&RH Archduke Ferdinand Zvonimir
HI&RH Archduchess Eleonore
HI&RH Archduchess Gloria

HI&RH The Hereditary Countess of Neipperg
HI&RH The Duchess of Santangelo
HI&RH Archduchess Michaela
HI&RH Archduchess Gabriela
HI&RH Archduchess Walburga, Countess Douglas
HI&RH Archduke Georg
HI&RH Archduchess Eilika
HI&RH Archduchess Zsófia
HI&RH Archduchess Ildikó
HI&RH Archduke Karl-Konstantin
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Extended family
Descendants of Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este:

HI&RH The Dowager Archduchess of Austria-Este

HI&RH The Archduke of Austria-Este
HI&RH The Archduchess of Austria-Este
HI&RH Archduke Amedeo
HI&RH Archduchess Elisabetta
HI&RH Archduke Maximilian
HI&RH Archduchess Anna Astrid
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Laura
HI&RH Archduke Joachim
HI&RH Archduchess Luisa Maria
HI&RH Archduchess Laetitia Maria
HI&RH Archduke Gerhard
HI&RH Archduchess Iris
HI&RH Archduke Martin
HI&RH Archduchess Katharina
HI&RH Archduke Bartholomaeus
HI&RH Archduke Emmanuel
HI&RH Archduchess Helene
HI&RH Archduke Luigi
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Beatrix
HI&RH Archduchess Isabella

Descendants of Archduke Felix:

HI&RH Archduke Carl Philipp
HI&RH Archduchess Annie-Claire
HI&RH Archduke Julian
HI&RH Archduke Louis-Damian
HI&RH Archduchess Bettina
HI&RH Archduke Felix
HI&RH Archduchess Sophia
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Teresa
HI&RH Archduke István
HI&RH Archduchess Paola
HI&RH Archduke Andreas
HI&RH Archduke Pál
HI&RH Archduchess Marguerite
HI&RH Archduchess Pilar
HI&RH Archduchess Kinga
HI&RH Archduchess Miriam
HI&RH Archduchess Viridis

Descendants of Archduke Carl Ludwig:

HI&RH Archduchess Yolande
HI&RH Archduke Rudolf
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Hélène
HI&RH Archduke Carl Christian
HI&RH Archduchess Estelle
HI&RH Archduchess Zita
HI&RH Archduchess Anežka
HI&RH Archduchess Anna
HI&RH Archduchess Paola
HI&RH Archduchess Priscilla
HI&RH Archduke Johannes
HI&RH Archduke Thomas
HI&RH Archduchess Marie
HI&RH Archduke Franz-Ludwig
HI&RH Archduchess Mathilde
HI&RH Archduke Michael
HI&RH Archduke Joseph
HI&RH Archduke Carl Christian
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Astrid
HI&RH Archduke Imre
HI&RH Archduchess Kathleen
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Stella
HI&RH Archduchess Magdalena
HI&RH Archduchess Juliana
HI&RH Archduke Christoph
HI&RH Archduchess Adélaide
HI&RH Archduchess Katarina
HI&RH Archduchess Sophia
HI&RH Archduke Alexander
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Christine
HI&RH Archduchess Gabriella
HI&RH Archduchess Alexandra
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Constanza

Descendants of Archduke Rudolf:

HI&RH Archduchess Anna Gabriele
HI&RH Archduke Karl Peter
HI&RH Archduchess Alexandra
HI&RH Archduchess Antonia
HI&RH Archduke Lorenz
HI&RH Archduke Simeon
HI&RH Archduchess María
HI&RH Archduke Johannes
HI&RH Archduke Ludwig
HI&RH Archduchess Isabella
HI&RH Archduchess Charlotte
HI&RH Archduke Philipp
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Anna
HI&RH Archduchess Catharina-Maria

Descendants of Archduke Maximilian Eugen:

HI&RH Archduchess Helene
HI&RH The Princess of Windisch-Grätz
HI&RH Archduke Maximilian
HI&RH Archduchess Maya
HI&RH Archduke Nikolaus Heinrich
HI&RH Archduke Constantin
HI&RH Archduchess Katharina
HI&RH Archduchess Ludmilla
HI&RH Archduke Philipp
HI&RH Archduchess Mayasuni
HI&RH Archduchess Amaya Anna
HI&RH Archduke Ferdinand
HI&RH Archduchess Katharina
HI&RH Archduke Jakob-Maximilian
HI&RH Archduchess Paulina
HI&RH Archduchess Lara Sophie
HI&RH Archduke Konrad
HI&RH Archduchess Ashmita
HI&RH Archduchess Marie-Christine

Descendants of Archduke Joseph Francis:

HI&RH Archduke Joseph Karl
HI&RH Archduchess Margarete
HI&RH Archduchess Johanna
HI&RH Archduke Joseph Albrecht
HI&RH Archduke Paul Leo
HI&RH Archduchess Elisabeth
HI&RH Archduke Andreas-Augustinus
HI&RH Archduchess Marie-Christine
HI&RH Archduke Friedrich-Cyprian
HI&RH Archduke Pierre
HI&RH Archduchess Célina Maria
HI&RH Archduchess Maria-Floriana
HI&RH Archduke Benedikt-Alexander
HI&RH Archduke Nicolaus
HI&RH Archduchess Eugenia
HI&RH Archduke Nicolas Augustin
HI&RH Archduchess Sofia Eugenia
HI&RH Archduke Santiago
HI&RH Archduke Johannes Jacobus
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Gabriela
HI&RH Archduke Johannes Maria
HI&RH Archduchess Monika-Ilona
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Christine
HI&RH Archduchess Alexandra
HI&RH Archduke Géza
HI&RH Archduke Michael Koloman
HI&RH Archduchess Christina
HI&RH Archduke Eduard
HI&RH Archduchess Marie Therese
HI&RH Archduchess Anne Caroline
HI&RH Archduchess Theresa Maria
HI&RH Archduke Paul Benedikt
HI&RH Archduchess Sophie
HI&RH Archduchess Ladislaya
HI&RH Archduchess Rosa
HI&RH Archduke Paul
HI&RH Archduchess Margherita
HI&RH Archduchess Maria Kynga
See also
Grand ducal family of Tuscany
Karl von Habsburg (Karl Thomas Robert Maria Franziskus Georg Bahnam; born 11 January 1961), also known as Karl of Austria and referred to by his ancestral titles as Archduke of Austria, Royal Prince of Hungary, Bohemia and Croatia,[4] is an Austrian politician, the current head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine which ruled the lands of the Habsburg Monarchy, the Empire of Austria, the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, and the Kingdom of Hungary as well as the Crown lands of Bohemia and Croatia by hereditary right until the end of World War I. Born in Starnberg, Germany, in 1961, he is the son of Archduke Otto von Habsburg, Crown Prince of Austria and Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and the grandson of the last Austrian emperor, Charles I. He served as a Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian People's Party 1996–1999. Like his father, he is known as an advocate for the Pan-European movement.
Early life
Karl von Habsburg was born in 11 January 1961 in Starnberg, Bavaria. He was baptised in Pöcking, Bavaria, as Archduke Karl of Austria (Erzherzog Karl von Österreich), the name entered in the baptismal records.[5] At the time of his birth, his father was de facto stateless and possessed a Spanish diplomatic passport (he had grown up in Spain), while his mother was a German citizen. Like his father and siblings, he was banished from Austria for the first years of his life. However, the administrative court of Austria later ruled that applying to return to the country was legal, and his family was granted visa entrance in June 1966.[6]
He is the oldest grandson of the last Austrian emperor and empress, Charles I and Zita of Bourbon-Parma. Born a member of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, he does not use his ancestral titles, since the use of such titles is now illegal in both Hungary and Austria.[7]
House of Habsburg
In 1961, his father, Otto von Habsburg, renounced all claims to the Austrian throne, as a necessary legal condition to being allowed to return to Austria. On 30 November 2000, Karl's father transferred over to him the position of head and sovereign (Grand Master) of the Order of the Golden Fleece. In 2005, Karl von Habsburg filed an unsuccessful lawsuit before Austria's constitutional court after a failed attempt to have former properties of the Habsburg family returned. The family's estates had been expropriated by the First Austrian Republic; this had in part been reverted under Austrofascism, and then the Nazis had expropriated them again. The family tried to get their former property returned under rules for victims of the Nazi regime. The attempt failed because the law of expropriation still has constitutional status.[8] On 1 January 2007, his father relinquished his position as the head of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, a status which then devolved on Karl,[9] and in 2008 he became the Grand Master of the Order of St. George.[10]
Career
Since 1986, Karl von Habsburg has been president of the Austrian branch of the Paneuropean Union. After studying law for 12 years, in 1992/1993, he hosted a TV game show with Austrian public TV broadcaster ORF, called Who Is Who.[11][12] In October 1996, he was elected to the European Parliament for the Austrian People's Party (ÖVP). Two years later, it emerged that the ÖVP's election campaign had benefitted from at least 30,000 Mark of World Vision donation money via Paneurope Austria while Karl von Habsburg sat on the board of World Vision Austria, apparently without noticing the director's dubiously legal activities.[13] His father exacerbated the controversy when he complained that his son was being attacked unfairly and drew a parallel between the name "Habsburg" and a yellow badge.[13] ÖVP did not nominate Karl von Habsburg again for the 1999 elections.[11][14] In 2004, Karl von Habsburg paid 37,000 euros to the new World Vision Austria branch.[14]
On 19 January 2002, he was appointed Director General of UNPO (Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization) by the UNPO Steering Committee.[15] Since 7 December 2008, he is the President of the Association of National Committees of the Blue Shield.[16] Since 2009, Karl von Habsburg is a shareholder in a media group in the Netherlands, consisting of radio stations, a magazine and a music television channel. He is also one of the three co-founders of BG Privatinvest, a Vienna-based investment company. In December 2010 the company acquired the two most important Bulgarian daily newspapers, Dneven Trud and 24 Chasa.[17]  After ongoing conflicts with Bulgarian partners, BG Privatinvest sold the newspapers in April 2011.[18]
Personal life

He has lived in Salzburg, Austria, since 1981, and resides in Casa Austria, formerly called Villa Swoboda, in Anif, near the city of Salzburg.[19] On 31 January 1993 in Mariazell, he married Baroness Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza (born 7 June 1958 in Lausanne), the only daughter of Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisza de Kászon, a European industrialist, and his third wife, the fashion model Fiona Frances Elaine Campbell-Walter.[20] The marriage received the dynastic authorization of Karl's father, as head of the House of Habsburg, despite objections from some members of the family inasmuch as the bride, although a baroness in the nobility of pre-republican Hungary and Transylvania, did not descend in the canonically legitimate male line from a family of dynastic (ruling or formerly ruling or mediatised) status[21][22], as does his younger brother Georg's wife.
In July 1998 an Austrian court fined Karl von Habsburg 180,000 schillings ($14,300); he had failed to declare immediately to customs officials that he had an antique diadem in his luggage when he crossed the border from Switzerland in July 1996.[23] The diadem belonged to his wife who intended to wear it at a wedding ceremony. After 10 years of marriage, the couple separated in 2003.[24]
Karl and Francesca have three children:
Eleonore Jelena Maria del Pilar Iona (born 28 February 1994 in Salzburg)
Ferdinand Zvonimir Maria Balthus Keith Michael Otto Antal Bahnam Leonhard (born 21 June 1997 in Salzburg)
Gloria Maria Bogdana Paloma Regina Fiona Gabriela (born 15 October 1999 in Salzburg), her godmother is Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis[25]
Honours
 House of Habsburg: Sovereign and Knight of the Austrian Order of the Golden Fleece
 House of Habsburg: Sovereign Grand Master and Knight Grand Cross of the Imperial and Royal Order of Saint George
 Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Knight Grand Cross of Justice of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Tonga: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Royal Household, Special Class[26]
Tonga: Recipient of the King Tupou VI Coronation Medal[26]
Ancestry
Ancestors of Main Page16. Archduke Carl Ludwig of Austria8. Archduke Otto Franz of Austria17. Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies4. Emperor Charles I of Austria18. George, King of Saxony9. Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony19. Maria Anna of Portugal2. Crown Prince Otto of Austria20. Charles III, Duke of Parma10. Robert I, Duke of Parma21. Louise Marie Thérèse of France5. Zita of Bourbon-Parma22. Infante Miguel of Portugal11. Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal23. Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg1. Crown Prince Karl of Austria24. Georg II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen12. Prince Frederick John of Saxe-Meiningen25. Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg6. Prince George, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Meiningen26. Count Ernst of Lippe-Biesterfeld13. Countess Adelaide of Lippe-Biesterfeld27. Countess Caroline von Wartensleben3. Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen28. Count Maximilian Frederick von Korff gen. Schmising-Kerssonbrock14. Count Alfred von Korff gen. Schmising-Kerssonbrock29. Countess Gabrielle von Mirbach-Kosmanos7. Countess Klara-Marie von Korff gen. Schmising-Kerssonbrock30. Baron Francis Richard von Hilgers15. Baroness Hélène von Hilgers31. Agnes Zernentsch
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