Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918
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The last woman to wear the crown of Austria-Hungary, married into an empire that dissolved beneath her feet two years into her reign. Widowed at 29 with eight children and a dead throne, she spent sixty-seven more years as the matriarch of a dynasty in exile.
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Born the seventeenth child of a dispossessed duke in 1892, Zita of Bourbon-Parma married Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911. Three years later the assassination of Franz Ferdinand made her husband heir to the Habsburg throne; by 1916 the elderly Emperor Franz Joseph was dead and Charles ruled Austria-Hungary with Zita as empress and queen. The empire lasted two more years. In 1918 the Habsburgs were deposed, their realm carved into Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and pieces annexed by neighbors. Charles and Zita went to Switzerland, tried twice to reclaim Hungary, failed, and were exiled by…
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