The Assassination of Franz Ferdinand

Franz ferdinand and sophie were not treated as equals. As the vienna ricpos put it, was the first time that an heir to the austrian throne had been denied a state funeral. No foreign dignitaries were invited to attend, nor were any members of the military. The emperor and montenuovo even banned the couple's three children from attending the funeral service. In the chilly logic of the hapsburgs, the descendants of a morganatic marriage were not worthy of mourning alongside the full blooded members of the imperial family. It is worth taking just another moment to focus on the archduke, sophi and the assassin.