This was the basis for Almásy using the title to his advantage, mostly in Egypt among the Egyptian Royalty to open doors that would have remained closed to a commoner. After he was introduced, the King continued to refer to him as "Count Almásy", confusing László with another branch of the family.
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The young Almásy became involved in these events by accident as the driver of Bishop Mikes when King Karl IV of Hungary returned to Hungary in 1921 to claim the throne, and was helped by Mikes to reach Budapest (from where he was politely but firmly sent back to Austria by Miklós Horthy, the Regent of Hungary). Returning to Hungary, Almásy became the personal secretary of the Bishop of Szombathely, János Mikes, one of the leading figures of the abortive post-war Habsburg restoration attempt. He was a member of the pioneering Eastbourne Flying Club. From November 1921 to June 1922, he lodged at the same address in Eastbourne. Interwar period Īfter the war, Almásy returned to join the Eastbourne Technical Institute, in East Sussex, England. After being shot down over Northern Italy in March 1918, Almásy saw out the remainder of the war as a flight instructor. In 1916, he transferred to the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops.
Almásy saw action against the Serbs, and then the Russians on the Eastern Front. World War I ĭuring World War I, Almásy joined the 11th Hussars along with his brother János. Almásy was born in Borostyánkő, Austria-Hungary (today Bernstein im Burgenland, Austria), into a Hungarian noble family (his father was the zoologist and ethnographer György Almásy), and, from 1911 to 1914, was educated at Berrow School, situated in a private house in Eastbourne, England, where he was tutored by Daniel Wheeler.
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