good question! completely conspiratorial, but fact, his father did Veto the election of a pope in 1903. The Habsburg royal family + a few others claimed the right of exclusion, jus exclusivae & rejected Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro who ** had a pro French foreign policy** & more direct to your questionsupported Slav interests in the Balkans.
not saying directly a Cardinal facilitated revenge, but would not be surprised. This cardinal who is rejected by the emperor had also refused a catholic memorial mass for the Emperor‘s son Crown, Prince Rudolf, who had committed suicide.
I have often started to wonder recently, why was Archduke Franz Ferdinand used to trigger WW1? What did he know that made him an assassination target?
good question! completely conspiratorial, but fact, his father did Veto the election of a pope in 1903. The Habsburg royal family + a few others claimed the right of exclusion, jus exclusivae & rejected Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro who ** had a pro French foreign policy** & more direct to your question supported Slav interests in the Balkans.
not saying directly a Cardinal facilitated revenge, but would not be surprised. This cardinal who is rejected by the emperor had also refused a catholic memorial mass for the Emperor‘s son Crown, Prince Rudolf, who had committed suicide.