One of the great bits of repartee in The King’s Speech comes as
the maverick Australian speech therapist, Lionel Logue, is just
getting to know His Royal Highness Prince Albert, the stammering
Duke of York: Logue: “Surely a prince’s brain knows what his
mouth’s doing?” Bertie: “You’re obviously not well acquainted
with many royal princes.” No one could have imagined any such
dialogue involving Archduke Otto von Habsburg, who died on July
4—not because the archduke was a fearsome personality, but
because he was a pre-eminently intelligent and decent man. The
full name he was given at his baptism in 1912—Franz Josef Otto
Robert Maria Anton Karl Max Heinrich Sixtus Xavier Felix Renatus
Ludwig Gaetan Pius Ignatius—speaks volumes about the history of
his family, whose rule over central Europe extended back some
seven centuries. Otto might have been thought an anachronism
after his father, Emperor Karl, was driven from the throne of
the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary in the waning days of World
War I. Yet the son