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  1. Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Charles I, the last monarch of Austria-Hungary.

  2. Zita of Bourbon-Parma was the last Empress of Austria. Even though she didn't actually want the imperial crown in the first place, she would never officially relinquish her throne. Even as she starved on dandelion salads and bounced between refugee camps—read: palaces and castles barely befitting her imperialness—she clung stubbornly to her ...

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  3. Born on 9 May 1892, Zita was the daughter of Duke Robert of Bourbon-Parma (1848–1907), the last sovereign of the minor northern Italian duchy before the unification of Italy, and the latter’s second wife, Maria Antonia von Braganza (1862–1959), who was a member of the Portuguese royal family.

  4. Zita of Bourbon-Parma. As consort of Emperor Karl I, Empress of Austria; Queen of Hungary. Born 9 May 1892 in Pianore, Province of Lucca, Tuscany (I) Died 14 March 1989 in Zizers, Canton of Grisons (CH) Zita married the future emperor Karl I in 1911. Their eldest son was Otto Habsburg-Lorraine.

  5. 4 days ago · Born into a large and happy family of the Bourbon-Parma lineage, Zita, who was one of 24 children, was raised with a beautiful Catholic faith which gave her great trust in Divine Providence. She became a widow and single mother to eight children just shy of her 30th birthday.

  6. Jun 29, 2017 · Zita debuted at a court ball in Vienna, where the ageing Emperor Franz Joseph I was the centre of attention. Archduke Charles was by then second in line to the Austrian throne, after his uncle, Franz Ferdinand. Charles’s father had died in 1906.

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  8. Empress of Austria and queen of Hungary, a key participant in the Austrian monarchist movement in both Austria and Hungary until the end of the 1930s, who served for more than two generations as a symbol of the ideals of monarchists and political-cultural traditionalists in Central Europe. Name variations: Zita of Bourbon-Parma; Zita von ...

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