The Royal Game is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig written in 1941, the year before the author's death by suicide. The title has also been used for a collection that also includes "Amok",
Elke Rehder: Woodcut to the chess story The Royal Game
The first edition of The Royal Game
Otto von Habsburg was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until its dissolution in November 1918. In 1922, he became the pretender to the former thrones, head of the House of Habsburg-L
The Royal Game
…been mounting a reasonable attack. Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-Archduke and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime…
Official portrait as an MEP, 1994
The young crown prince Otto with his parents posing for official photographs on the occasion of the coronation in Budapest, 1916
Otto von Habsburg (left) and Count von Degenfeld in 1933
Otto (first right) with Helmut Kohl (third right) at the ceremony of the European Prize Coudenhove-Kalergi