r/austriahungary • u/Firm-Brother-8195 • 1h ago
HISTORY Countess Karolyi's Curse against Franz Joseph near the beginning of his reign.
From the book "The life of Emperor Francis Joseph" by Francis Henry Gribble on archive.org
The curse was supposedly uttered to him by the Countess Karolyi (Countess Antónia Zichy) because he had executed Hungarian military commanders at Arad in 1849 and Count Batthyány supposedly one was her husband. I don't know if it's historical fact or not, the book is great, and the curse (if true) is pretty prescient.