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I love Karl I. or Charles IV of Hungary, because he is a rather unknown monarch who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. He could've been such a great emperor of our peoples if it wasn't for independence programs supported by the Entente. He argued for federalization of the Habsburg empire, but upon the end of ww1 he was forced to leave his native country. He attempted to take the throne of hungary (which was awaiting for him but sadly the little entente consisting of Czechoslovakia, Romania and Yugoslavia would invade Hungary if something like that would happen) two times, with both of them failing. Karl was then exiled to Portugal where he unfortunately died young at the age 34 from Influenza. Historians speculate that he was maybe murdered so he wont try to take the throne the third time once things started to chill up.
His death lead to a semi-dictatorship in Hungary ruled by Horthy Miklós
