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A crowd immediately surrounded Princip. Baron Morsey rushed forward, cavalry sabre drawn. Spectators were beating Princip; when Morsey saw that he still held the gun, he turned the hilt of his sword against him, hitting him until the pistol clattered to the pavement. Princip managed to pull the vial of cyanide from his pocket and swallow the contents before it, too, was knocked from his hand. It failed to kill him...

What remained was a ruling family rooted in tradition, its past glories supplanted by a string of failed monarchs, highly incestuous marriages, and a depressing family tendency to weak chins.