Also a lament for certain departed regimes:
"The fall of the Habsburgs was an unrelenting tragedy and disaster, leading to dangerous instability and eventual mass murder; the Hohenzollerns were unlovely but German history shows that there is always worse around the corner."

In *The Gathering Storm* #WinstonChurchill regretted that a cadet branch of the #Hohenzollerns hadn't been placed on the German throne after #WWI ...

#Habsburgs