Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Empress of Austria from 1916 to 1918 · Italy · Historical Figures · Lived 1892 to 1989 · aged 96 · also Serbia
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Something wrong?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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Besuch der Kaiserin und Königin Zita in der Ottakringer Kinder-Tagesheimstätte i, Bestanddeelnr 158-0792_by_shakko_(DE).jpg?width=1200)
Dinasty Habsburg-Lothringen family tree (19th century) by shakko (DE)
Huwelijk van Prinses Francoise van Bourbon Parma met Prins Eduard van Lobkowicz , Bestanddeelnr 910-9258
Kaiserin und Kronprinnz Otto
Kaiserin und Königin Zita wird beim Eingange der Ottakringer Kinder-Tagesheimstä, Bestanddeelnr 158-1598
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St Georgen bei Salzburg - Stierlingwald - Kreuzweg-Station 11-3 - 2020 03 07Awards
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Princess Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma
Prince Félix of Luxembourg
Prince Xavier, Hereditary Duke of Parma
Prince Joseph, Hereditary Duke of Parma
Prince René of Parma
Prince Elias, Hereditary Duke of Parma
Prince Sixtus of Parma
Prince Gaetano of Parma
Prince Henry, Hereditary Duke of Parma
Princess Beatrice of Bourbon-Parma (1879-1946)
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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 the Allies to Madeira. Charles died there in 1922. Zita raised their children, never remarried, and with her son Otto became the living axis of a scattered dynasty. She was declared Servant of God by Pope Benedict XVI and died in 1989.
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