CONTENTS

PREFACE

On the Way to the Royal Hungarian Throne:

The First 37 years 1

1. A Well-Brought-Up Young Man Who Might Even
Become Heir to the Throne 5
2. A Royal Archduke Attired in the Hungarian
Tricolor 19
3. An Amateur Actor amidst the Turmoil of 1848 29
4. The Young Hero of the Battlefield and a
Birthday Present 43
5. The Anointed Murderer 57
6. The Tyrant 67
7. Edward and the Welsh 85
8. The Compromise of anAutocrat 99
9. "The Empress is Learning Hungarian" 115
10. Five Minutes Past Midnight 121

On the Hungarian Royal Throne:
The Last 49 Years 139

1. The Limits on Freedom of Speech 145
2. Matyas Hunyadi, the Heroic Lion 151
3. Why Tell Lies? 159
4. The Great Hungarian Split Consciousness and the
Lammergeyer 169
5. An Even Greater Split in Hungarian Consciousness
and the Naked King 181
6. The Non-Existent "Magic Spell": the King's
Personality 193
7. Our Father Kossuth, Prince Rezso', "Ferenc Joska"
and Elizabeth of Bavaria 211
8. "Francis Joseph Has Sent Word 225

EPILOGUE 233
BIBLIOGRAPHY 235
INDEX 243