When we were kids, we used to think that our great grandfather looked as handsome as Maximilian...it was said that he had been a guest to the family home in Tulancingo Hidalgo amongst a long list of "personas ilustres" of those times. Don Agustin had a long white beard and pale blue eyes which enchanted me as much as the Austrian Prince. I used to stand in front of his portrait by my grandmother's bed and dream about those long ago days in the beautiful family "casona" which had been witness to so much history in our country.
The Archduke Maximilian of Austria was executed in Queretaro at a young age, Edouard Manet painted three versions of a painting called the Execution of Emperor Maximilian between 1867 and 1869
You can read about El Ultimo Principe himself or you can order the book based in the life of Carlota and Maximilian by C.M. Mayo... la novela basada en una historia de la vida real (Grijalbo Random House Mondadori, 2010)
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