Sightseeing in Vienna for the first time, Britain's Edward of Wales last week inevitably went to see yellow-stuccoed Schönbrunn Castle and took snapshots like any other tripper. Afterward, not satisfied with the Schönbrunn guide books, he sent out an aide to get research material on that House of Habsburg that was once accustomed to occupy Schönbrunn in the summertime and on its last great Emperor, long-legged, Dundreary-whiskered Franz Josef I.
For data on that high bourgeois royalty, Edward of Wales might better have walked through Schönbrunn Park and called on Franz Josef's best friend in a villa hard...
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