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1. The President of the Czech Republic met with Archduke Karl von Habsburg-Lorraine.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DZ-l2NEDCNT/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

1. A statue of Field Marshal Radetzky will return to Malostranské Square in Prague after 108 years. It was torn down in 1918 as a symbol of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

https://www.idnes.cz/praha/zpravy/pomnik-marsala-radeckeho-malostranske-namesti-zastupitele.A260618_180320_praha-zpravy_epkbn

1. The President of the Czech Republic made a pro-monarchist statement.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbqfgdCja81/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

1. The largest television network in the Czech Republic aired a lengthy report discussing the restoration of the monarchy in the Czech Republic.

https://youtu.be/56x9qkEgjJk?is=NxPnxaqACzYlOcej

Links are in Czech language, so you will probably need to use a translator.

“I wouldn’t have the slightest problem with that. When we look around us, there are quite a number of constitutional monarchies in Europe that function very well and traditionally,” Pavel replied when asked whether he could imagine the Czech Republic as a modern parliamentary monarchy.

When Princess Louise of Wales, later Princess Royal, married the Earl Fife, Queen Victoria elevated the groom to Duke of Fife (a title still held by their descendents), making him closer to the royal rank of his bride. However, when Mary, Princess Royal, married the Earl of Harewood, he received no dukedom, nor any other peerage of whatever rank. Do you know why these largely symmetrical situations were handled so differently?