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you can have the whole funeral on youtube, part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn-O36v1wVw it's the original ORF coverage

No. I am convinced that the nationalist movement is far from being royalist. I think whenever they talk about 'neighbouring countries' they never mean a crowned head (let's not get in this topic, though). I believe much of the popularity of the Monarchy as good old times comes from the fact...

No, he sold his shares in 2002 (the station - TV2 - started broadcast in 1997)

Actually three friars of the Abbey taught him in exile in Spain. He only visited the Abbey in 1990 then and in 2002 called himself a Benedictine student and was honourary president of the Benedictine students' association

Hey, the Abbey is just off motorway M1, which is the direct motorway between Vienna and Budapest, I guess it's basically halfway between Bratislava and Budapest, so not a grand trip for you :-)

Nope. He ran as "independent" with a party in the 2008 EU elections and though he was 2nd in the national list, he didn't get to Brussels. The party got out of parliament in 2010 and is rarely heard of. He has been president of the Hungarian Red Cross nonetheless for a number of years now.

I am undecided as yet whether to go to Wien or not, especially as there is another requiem mass in St Stephen's in Budapest on Sunday (note: that is where the younger son Georg got married), but I do feel a certain drive as my family today lives in almost all the countries the Habsburgs ruled...