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« on: October 07, 2011, 01:46:16 PM »
Further information about Archduke Felix found in a newspaper article:
"(....) It is worth adding that his survival to the age of 3, let alone 95, was almost certainly the result of actions taken by three Britons:
King George V, who arranged for the Habsburg royal family to be given "moral" support during their temporary in Eckartsau near Vienna
during the bitter winter of 1918-19, and the two Colonels, John Orlando Summerhayens, RAMC and Edward Lisle Strutt, Royal Scots.
Colonel Summerhayes was appointed as "Ehrenkavalier" on February II, 1919, arriving at Eckartsau a few days later to protect the imperial family
and, as a doctor, tend to their health before he was replaced by the aristocratric, Roman Catholic Strutt a week or so later.
Two year old Felix was particularly ill and the Empress Zita persuaded Strutt to allow Summerhayes to accompany Felix to Switzerland for medical
treatment, a decision which probably saved his life.
No further evidence has come to light confirming this winter journey to Switzerland. Perhaps there still remain members of the Habsburg family or their entourage who have memories or stories of this episode."
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