Imperial House of Habsburg 2: June 2007-

[CyrilVladisla]

The book The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times written by Archduke Eduard also looks like a very interesting book.

 

[AC21091968]

Archduke Eduard has another book titled Building a Wholesome Family in a Broken World, released on 15th October this year. As the title suggested, it is more about family or traditionalism though he did discuss his experience as a father and history of the Habsburg Family. He did appear on the WCAT radio (Catholic radio in America) and GB News (not the complete interview) to promote his book.


Here is the full interview on GB News.

Archduke Eduard did tweet that both Jacob Rees-Mogg and himself have six children

https://twitter.com/x/status/1867557205202846162

 

[Toledo]

I noticed my last foray on this thread was in part one, back in 2007, 18 years ago! wow I'm like the senior citizen at Royal Forums.

Today, I found in YouTube recommendations a video I absolutely did not expect was about the members and descendants of the Habsburg Dynasty, legit and side affairs, and my jaw dropped to the floor.

Who knew that the granddaughter of Emperor Karl's half-brother Archduke Otto von Habsburg, from an affair with ballet dancer Marie Schleinzer that produced two kids, later became romantically involved with none other than John F. Kennedy and had a child by him in 1945 named Tony Bohler!

Her movie stage name was Isabel del Puerto and also Lisa Lannett/Hortenau, niece of Emperor Karl of Austria. She became a legendary beauty in the Mexican film Golden Age in the 40's and 50s that also was a parallel of Hollywood's, and both industries often exchanged actors and technical crew. The Mexican movie industry was provided lots of support by Hollywood during the WWII to help it become dominant in Spanish speaking countries.

Isabel became a legendary beauty in films and in her youth her dance teacher was none other than Isadora Duncan. When she moved to Mexico, she started a career as a model and became part of the film industry with 17 movies to her records.

She retired and decided to become a businesswoman owning several restaurants in Mexico, she owned a public relations company in New York, became a high-profile realtor between USA and Mexico, was a book author and animal rights activist creating a charity company to help homeless people that also protected or cared for homeless dogs.

Here's the map:
Emperor Karl's brother Archduke Otto von Habsburg, born 1865, + affair ballet dancer Marie Schleinzer, born 1874, produced:
--> son Alfred von Hortenau, born 1892, + Charlotte von Hortenau produced:

-----> daugther Isabel del Puerto also known as Lisa Lannett/Hortenau, born 1921, + Affair with John F Kennedy produced a son:

--------> John F. Kennedy's son Tony Bohler - born 1945

What happened to Isabel del Puerto

Here's an article from 2009 where she finally admits what the Kennedy family knew since 1945, John F Kennedy was her son's father: John F Kennedy fathered my son, woman claims

Excerpt:

In the latest claim to emerge about the former US president's energetic love life, Lisa Lanett (Isabel del Puerto), an Austrian-born American, said she had a two-year affair with Kennedy after they met in Phoenix, Arizona, during the Second World War.​

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Now 87, she told the Austrian newspaper Kurier that Kennedy, then a young and single US navy officer and long before he earned his reputation as a notorious womaniser, had offered to marry her when she became pregnant with their son, Tony, but she had turned him down.​

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He did, however, pay for the boy's education at Peekshill Military Academy, a private school outside New York, until the president's assassination in 1963, she said.​

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Tony Bohler, the alleged son, is now 63 and a retired art dealer living in California. Divorced and with two sons of his own, he told the newspaper he could never work out why he did not look like the Mexican-born man who his mother told him was his father.​

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Mrs Lanett, who admitted that she had no way of proving her claims, said her son was adopted by his grandmother, Charlotte Bohler.​

Ironically when the news came out in her senior years, no one seemed to mention the fact that via their affair the Kennedy family became part of the Habsburg family tree, well, the side branches no one wants to mention!
This is like worth a movie or a TV series.

Today her claims can be proven easily by DNA testing, if this has not been done already by her son already who looks like John F Kennedy all the way down to his chin.

'I turned down JFK but still had his son'
By Tom Leonard Independent News · 24 Mar, 2009

Excerpt

Tony Bohler, the alleged son, is now 63 and a retired art dealer who lives in California. Divorced and with two sons, he told the newspaper he could never work out why he did not look like the Mexican-born man who his mother told him was his father.​

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"My mother always told me her former husband, Juan, was my father. I'd always had my doubts because he, being a Mexican, looked very Mexican."​

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His mother reportedly comes from an illegitimate branch of the Habsburg family - her father was the unlawful half-brother of Karl I, the last Austrian emperor.​

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She had been on holiday in Rome when the Nazis occupied Austria in 1938. The family decided not to return and moved to America instead. After a brief marriage to a Mexican, she moved to Phoenix where her mother ran a motel called the Monterey Lodge.​

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Kennedy moved to the city in 1943 while recuperating from back surgery after he was injured when his torpedo boat was rammed by a Japanese cruiser. The couple fell in love and he took her for romantic trips around the country...​

 

[EssexRoyal]

Does anyone know anything more about the alleged daughter of Otto, Hildegard?

 

[Sancia]

Does anyone know anything more about the alleged daughter of Otto, Hildegard?

Here is a little more on her life. She married with Mihaly Pal Kuczor and died in 1976, in Hungary. She was very probably a musician.

 

[Toledo]

Here is a little more on her life. She married with Mihaly Pal Kuczor and died in 1976, in Hungary. She was very probably a musician.

Thanks for that link! I've never been to that page and via the link you posted I can check out other royals' genealogies, too.
I read more on the tragic end of Archduke Otto, Tony Bohler (Hortenau-Kennedy) great grandfather, and it was horrible a man nicknamed beautiful Otto had his face, health and life destroyed by a disease he caught because of extra marital escapades.

Interesting detail is that this week the White House released over 80,000 pages of documents involving the end of Archduke Otto's great-grandson's father, John F. Kennedy, and I wonder if any will have family details that mention him and his mother Lisa Lannett/Hortenau (movie stage name Isabel del Puerto). From the articles I read and the information in YouTube videos in Spanish, she and Kennedy were very together during later years and he took care of his school admission to a major school in the USA. Then it all stopped when he was killed in Texas, and Jackie took over. Also, his mother was a Texas resident after she left the movie industry and became very involved with the Democratic party on that state.

This amazing story I just found out about over the week is like a movie or TV series to be made. To this day I can't still believe the number of events from Archduke Otto's life, and the fall of an empire, that led the life of his granddaughter encounter a Kennedy in her path. And not just any Kennedy, but John F. Kennedy as a young army soldier in 1945.

 

[Blog Real]

Archduke Sigismund of Habsburg presided over the annual gathering of the Knights of the Order of Saint Stephen in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Florence.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1903749686336352318

 

[iceflower]

Archduke Sigismund as Patron of the event recently attended the 42nd edition of the Order of Malta Ball in Bern, Switzerland:

Élégance et générosité au Bal de l’Ordre de Malte

Rendez-vous incontournable du début d’année, le Bal de l’Ordre de Malte en Suisse a une fois de plus brillé au Bellevue Palace de Berne. Cette 42e édition a rassemblé des personnalités européennes venues soutenir des causes humanitaires, sociales et médicales, sous le patronage de S.A.I.R...

www.pointdevue.fr