“Maximilian and Carlota: Last Empire in Mexico,” an exhibit at the Witte Museum, examines the brief and ill-fated rule of the emperor and empress of Mexico. The show, which accompanies the release of ...

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In 1864, an ambitious and somewhat delusional 31-year-old Austrian archduke named Maximilian von Hapsburg set sail for Mexico with plans to invade and install himself as an enlightened despot, a ...

Vienna’s Weltmuseum houses ‘el penacho de Moctezuma,’ a feathered headdress attributed to the Aztec emperor. Mexico has long ...

In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maximilian and two of his generals in 1867, in Querétaro, Mexico.

The life and struggles of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph Maria of Habsburg-Lorraine (1832-1867), emperor of the Second Mexican Empire as Maximilian I of Mexico from 1864 to 1867 (under the wing of ...

Local historian M. M. McAllen brings to life a little-known pocket of French influence on Mexican history in Maximilian and Carlota. Despite Spain’s almost unilateral impact on Mexico, it was not the ...

Spy City creator William Boyd is penning a $20M series about the tragic life of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and his wife Charlotte of Belgium for Herbert Kloiber and Constantin Film’s High End ...

In the early 1860s, the “puffed-up” French emperor Napoleon III conceived what he believed to be “a brilliant wheeze”, said Justin Marozzi in The Sunday Times. He would command his troops to invade ...

The four-part series Maximilian and Carlota will begin filming next year in Austria, Northern Italy, France and Mexico, with a budget estimated to reach the $20M mark. The young Hapsburg, who was ...