On 4 November 1824, Princess Sophie of Bavaria married Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, the third son of Emperor Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor and Princess Maria Theresa of Naples and Sicily. Her family had been reluctant, and Sophie’s sister wrote, “They say he is educated, but he is not at all to the Queen’s [read more]
Read part one here. Her eldest stepson Franz Ferdinand had become the heir to the throne following the suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf. However, he was in love with Countess Sophie Chotek, who was considered to be highly unsuitable. Sophie had been a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella (born of Croÿ), the wife of Archduke Friedrich, [read more]
Maria Theresa of Portugal was born on 24 August 1855 as the third child and second daughter of the former King Miguel I of Portugal and his wife Adelaide of Löwenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg. Her father had seized the throne from his niece, Queen Maria II of Portugal, before being dethroned himself in 1834. He was exiled for [read more]
Isabella of Parma was born on 31 December 1741 as the daughter of Philip, Duke of Parma, the second son of King Philip V of Spain, and Louise Élisabeth of France. At the time of her birth, her father was not yet Duke of Parma, and she was born in the Buen Retiro Palace in [read more]
When Maria Theresa’s father, Emperor Charles VI died in 1740; Maria Theresa’s sex meant that she was barred from becoming Holy Roman Empress in her own right. However, she did inherit many of her father’s family dominions which he had secured for her during his lifetime by pushing through an act called the Pragmatic sanction in [read more]
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