When Winston Churchill was annoyed by the idiotic Habsburg archdukes, he was not alone in his opinion. Why were there particularly many deviations from the norm in this ruling dynasty? Christian Dickinger uncovers the dark sides of the history of the ruling house and writes informatively and vividly about aristocratic arrogance, the fanatical belief in divine right, the dynastic inbreeding practiced for centuries, and the madness that resulted from it.