Old news.
Richard Kay's column in Tuesday's Daily Mail mentions Archduchess Francesca of Austria, who is the estranged wife of Archduke Karl, the heir to Archduke Otto. This is not news, however. Karl and Francesca have been living apart for several years now. Karl lives in Salzburg and Francesca's main residence is an apartment in Vienna.
Karl and the former Baroness Francesca von Thyssen were married in 1993. They have three children, Archduchess Eleonore, Archduke, Ferdinand and Archduchess Gloria.
Kay describes Francesca as Scottish-born. She was born in Lausanne. Close. Switzerland, like Scotland, starts with a S.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1084596/Thyssens-girl-faces-sad-split.html
a profile of Francesca that was published in the New York Times Magazine in 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/magazine/25stylefrancesca.t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=habsburg&st=cse&oref=slogin
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The article describes Karl as being a MEP. That is not true; he was MEP from 1996-1999 only.
Karl has a reputation for not being particuarly bright.
In 1998 he had to pay a heavy fine of 13.000€ for trying to smuggle a diamond tiara into Austria.
Since 1.1. 2007 he is the Head of the House of Habsburg.
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