Princess Ludovika of Bavaria

Maria Ludovika Wilhelmine was born in Munich on 30 August 1808, the fifth child of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and his second wife Queen Caroline. She spent her life in the city where she was born, a Bavarian royal by blood but never by crown. Her daughter, Elisabeth, would marry into the Austrian imperial family and become one of the century's most talked-about women. Ludovika died in Munich on 25 January 1892, her name preserved less by her own deeds than by the daughter who couldn't stay still.