Archduchess Assunta of Austria

Archduchess Assunta of Austria German: Assunta, Erzherzogin von Österreich-Toskana; was the youngest daughter of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria and Princess Blanca of Bourbon. She was a member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by birth. Born and raised in the twilight years of the Habsburg monarchy, Archduchess Assunta lived in exile in Barcelona, Spain, after the dissolution of Austria-Hungary. She entered religious life in a convent there, but was forced to leave it in 1936 due to disturbances during the Spanish Civil War. In 1939, she married Joseph Hopfinger, a Polish doctor. In 1942, the couple emigrated to the United States. Archduchess Assunta and her husband had two daughters, but they divorced in 1950. She moved to San Antonio, Texas, where she had a variety of jobs living in anonymity until her death.