Zita’s reaction to the suggestion that Emperor Karl should abdicate on 11 November 1918
"Never! A ruler can be deposed… That is force, which precludes recognition. But abdicate — never! I would rather fall right here at your side. Then there would be Otto. And even if all of us here were killed, there would still be other Habsburgs!"
Quotation from: Gordon Brook-Shepherd: Um Krone und Reich. Die Tragödie des letzten Habsburgerkaisers. Wien, München, Zürich 1968, S. 256