franzferdinand

According to Wikipedia, he would later go on to form a rock band in Scotland.

You are joking, of course. On June 28, 1914, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated in Sarajevo, while on a visit to Serbia, which then was a province of Austria-Hungary. The assassination was a precipitating event in the clash of alliances that produced World War I. The assassin was a Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip.

The three people are: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie,_Duchess_of_Hohenberg Countess Baillet de Latour

Wystan and Richard Arthur Norton, Thanks for the additional details on this photograph and its subjects. We will add to the record when we update.

Another version of this Bain/LOC photo of Franz Ferdinand: Other Bain photos of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand: [

The assassination of the Archduke was the spark that started World War I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria Seen here posing with his children, Sophie, Maximillian, & Ernst.

Sophie was born in 1901, and Ernst in 1904. My guess is that the photo was taken between 1911 and 1913. www.btinternet.com/~J.Pasteur/Family.html has some pictures that could have been taken at the same time. The children are in the same outfits as far as I can see. Unfortunately the pictures are not dated. I found the same picture at news.webshots.com/photo/2045053910100532270PzIgGf -- also not dated. The other version has a printed caption and looks to be a page from a book.

See flickr.com/photos/mrsfujita/2763234472/ and flickr.com/photos/mrsfujita/sets/72157603564644040/ for more pictures of the Austrian royal family. flickr.com/photos/mrsfujita/2302560846/ has a date of 1913 and Ernst looks older than in this picture.

Two versions of another Bain photo of Archduke Franz Ferdinand: Other Bain photos of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his family:

this picture was taken in 1911, Archduke Franz Ferdinand in the uniform of an admiral with his children Sophie (1901-1990) , Max (1902-1962) and Ernst von Hohenberg (1904-1954) www.bildarchivaustria.at/Pages/ImageDetail.aspx?p_iBildID...

Perhaps if we told him to duck, we could prevent the start of World War I.

1900-1919(?) - FF was killed in 1914.

Well if was taken anytime after 1914 that would be a story. Sorry about the war lads that Franz Ferdinand is still alive and living in Brazil.....oops....

Quite so. He escaped with a submarine to Argentina. But some will have it, that he was a croupier in a French casino, continually shouting: "Rien ne va plus!"

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