It's impossible to scan all of them if you want to do something else in your life, too ...
I think in this book are a few pics of Natalie and Stéphanie who died quite young. Does anybody have some more pics of the two girls?
Scanning any of them is really impossible now, because my scanner said NO. Until we (me & my scanner) become friends again, here's a small portrait study of son Albrecht from 1917 by the celebrated Hungarian portraitist oh his age, Gyula Benczur. (As a young boy, Albrecht was a popular motif: there are some sculptures of him by Alajos Strobl - in THAT book there are some pics showing Albrecht as a young boy in the Atelier of Strobl. If my scanner worked... )
Thanks for this phantastic photo, I was very amazed to see it, because pictures of Isabella and Friedrichs only son Albrecht are very rare and not so easy to find. Do you have any adult pictures of him? Ans what´s about two of the sisters , who died very young? Nathalie and one other girl? Do you have any pictures and do you have any interesting book or source to mention?
I am so interested in this, because I once had a short contact to Albrechts two daughters by his (second) wife Katalin: Their names are Sárolta (Sari) and Ildiko (Ildi) and they were born in 1940 and 1942. After the war they fled from the Russian together with thei mother and came to my hometown and got to know the family of a former teacher of mine. All children were very young in 1945, but the story was quite interesting, because Princess Katalin ´s driver ( he is said to have been a bit more than this to her
) lived in the house of my former history teacher from school. My teacher celebrated his sixth birthday together with the two daughters of Albrecht, and also after this they visited him several times and the children were playing together very nicely in his house (in my hometown Bad Homburg, Hessen, Germany)
Unfortunaley after the year of 1945 the contact between them broke, and my teacher never saw the girls again. Katalin and her children had emigrated to the US. Later my teachers parents always told everyone, who came to the house very proudly: A Habsburg Princess with her two children was here!"
When my teacher was an adult his interest came back, he wanted to know, who were the two princesses from his childhood days, but he did not know where to find. As he was a child he did not remember the names of the children correctly and he always remembered "Charly" instead of "Sari" and "Lilli instead of "Ildi"...Later on the wrote to different ambassadies organisations in Hungary and also asked Otto von Habsburg, but as the names were wrong nobody could help him. Once he told me about this story and I really could find them by asking a distant cousin of the two ladies: Géza of Habsburg. He gave me the addresses and I had a phone call with one of the sisters, and she was really the one, who had been to Bad Homburg in 1945. But despite of all there was never a real contact: She said that she is too busy and does not have any memories concerning the past. Her sister in America the same. I was really unhappy I must say, because at the beginning sari was so friendly and promised to write me, but she never answered any letter, I still do not know, if she got any. Both ladies are not interested in a conversation.
But there is still the fact that Albrecht, their father seemed to belong to a minority of the Habsburg family, who is said to have cooperated with the Nazis, and this may have been a reason also for her wife Katalin to be afraid of the red Army in 1945. Officially Katalin and Albrecht were divorced some years later in Mexico, I think (1951 or something, have to look it up again) but they were not together anymore already in 1945, because Katalin and her children had come alone with her children to Bad Homburg, and my teacher being a boy at this time as I said always thought that she was a widow, but in fact she wasn´t. She only had he driver with her , he was called Hotvin and was always playing and drinking in the Casino of Bad homburg, as my former teacher could remember...he had much more memories on Sari and Ildi as they had from him. They did not remember him at all.
Albrecht is said to have a son in America, too, but this can not be clarified as I have read, it´s quite strange this case. Some say that a son, Stephan does exist and others say no.
So do you any more interesting pictures of Albrecht? And his family? His daughter Sari always promised me to send photos of her and her family, but she didn´t ....I am sooo unhappy!