Charles I of Austria
Last monarch of Austria-Hungary (r. 1916–1918)
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The last Habsburg emperor tried to quietly end World War I through secret peace talks with the Allies, failed, watched his empire splinter into successor states, and died in island exile at thirty-four — later beatified by the Catholic Church.
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Born in 1887, Charles became heir presumptive in 1914 after his uncle Franz Ferdinand's assassination at Sarajevo. He married Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma in 1911. Taking the throne in November 1916 as his grand-uncle Franz Joseph died, he began covert negotiations with the Allies hoping to exit the war peacefully, without success. His attempts to preserve Austria-Hungary through federalism and Austro-Slavism couldn't stop the fracture: Czechoslovakia and the State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs declared independence, Hungary severed its monarchic link by late October 1918. After the Armistic…
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