The hosts of nations were arrayed against him. He was beset by anguish, sorrow, and betrayal. Karl von Habsburg was a king in exile, a father separated from his children, a man of peace in a time of war. The last years of his short life were a long Lent in which he, an emperor, ascended to God by descending–from a throne to a sickbed, from fasting to poverty, and from his generous munificence to…
