Americans are bombarded with images of European royalty behaving badly, whether they’re pushing to be seen at the latest Broadway opening or sports competition, getting caught having tawdry affairs, or appearing on the Jeffrey Epstein flight manifests. It may seem surprising that a member of the nobility — Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria — has a strong sense of morality learned from his family that he lives and passes down to his children.
People in the U.S. may not realize that the origination of royalty was partly to uphold mores and the teachings of what was the universal church, the Catholic Church — that, as well as gathering armies plus revenues to defend the homeland and faith. Royalty was certainly not allowed power for the purpose of attending fashion shows or canning jams with disallowed trademarks.
I spoke to Archduke Eduard again, this time with WhatsApp. Not only has he been keeping busy as Hungary’s ambassador to the Holy See, but he has just come out with his second book, “Building a Wholesome Family in a Broken World.”
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