A dinner was given in his honour at the Hofburg, where he was seated next to Franz Ferdinand.
Part of the programme was that he was to have gone the next morning with the Archduke to shoot in the neighbourhood.

The German prince, who mistook the Archduke Franz Ferdinand for someone else, said to him during dinner: "I am to go out shooting to-morrow, and I hear it is to be with that tiresome Franz Ferdinand; I hope the plan will be changed." As far as I know, the expedition did not take place; but I never heard whether the prince discovered his mistake.

The Archduke, however, laughed heartily for days at the episode.
The Archduke invariably spoke of his nephew, the present Emperor Charles, with great affection.

The relations between the two were, however, always marked by the absolute subordination of the nephew to the uncle.

In all political discussions, too, the Archduke Charles was always the listener, absorbing the precepts expounded by Franz Ferdinand.
Charles's marriage met with the full approval of his uncle.