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thin ife, in that at first she didn't r she had en stab Wit n hou e w d d When word me to F J f, he crie othing has en s ed me this world No y knows how much we loved ch other."
After the d th of Rudolf, e heir to the throne w Fr z J fs b ther Karl Ludwi t died of typh d in 18 after d g con taminated water from the Jordan River while on a pil age. e n heir was his n, Fr Ferdinand 1894 in gue, F rdinand met Count phie Chotek. e two fell in love t kept their affection cret F ally in 18 Franz Ferdinand r uested r ion om the Em ror to marry phi But phie was not of a high enou sta to eli ble to marry the heir to the Imperi throne. Franz J f r de the ge. F Fer nand insisted on it The Em ror and his he were th stub men and neither would relent At last Franz J f a eed to a compromi : what was known as a mor natic ge. is meant that phie would always considered of inferior status and their child could never i erit the Im rial throne. Franz Ferdinand and phie lieved that their love uld survive any such handica and a eed to the conditio They were married on June 28, 1 . Since Franz Ferdinand's sons could not inherit the throne, the next in line would s nephew and g n Charle
as the cent y came to en Austria w at a (though the owing cl n of England, F nce and Ru ia should have unded w g si als in Vienna) and domesti y stable (though the Hung ans and other li r s were still r tl } Franz J f had weathered public and nal storms ch as few men had en r uired to endure. Yet he had sixtene more years to rei and the wo t o of all the horizon.
Italy and the Po
e June 1 Po us a ended the papal throne. Many of the brals Italy thou t that he would on the side or at least not o the and me his early action such as anting amnesty to p liti l p ne rmitting freedom of e pr and intr ucing laymen to the gove ent the Papal Stat convinced them that Pius was in deed a ral Po But when the 1848 revolution a inst Austria broke out Italy, Pi i ed a statement condemning the revolutionaries and ur ng all I s to remain loyal to their rule now the li r s were r dy to a inst Po
They did in vem r 1 A revolutionary mob invaded Rome
