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Edward Habsburg is the Archduke of Austria and Hungary's ambassador to the Holy See.

He is the author of books on Thomas Aquinas and James Bond, among other topics.

His new book is The Hapsburg Way, Seven Rules for turbulent times. And that is our topic today. Welcome,

Ambassador Hapsberg. Thank you very much for having me on the show. First question.

What brought Prime Minister Victor Orban to write a forward for this volume? That was great to see.

That's a very good question, Mark, especially because it put him into some sort of dilemma.

The Habsburgs in Hungary by a part of the population are still seen of something like oppressors,

especially the elder generation. So once he had decided he wanted to write the forward,

I could almost feel that he was in the dilemma what to write.

And I was certain that his forward would be a kind of defense why a street fighting guy like him would write a forward about the Habsburgs.

And of course, as he has this strength of words, what came out of it

was an incredibly dense historical, poetical reflection about the complicated relationship between

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