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Marriage and issue Archduke Franz Ferdinand In the mid-1890s, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria began visiting Isabella and Friedrich"s home. Eventually, it was discovered that in fact he was courting Countess Sophie Chotek, a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella. Sophie was dismissed from service, thus beginning an ongoing conflict between Friedrich and Franz Ferdinand, who married Sophie in 1900.
The Archduchess felt that Nancy, being an American commoner, was not an appropriate spouse for a prince of Croÿ.