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  1. Her funeral was held in Vienna and Zita's body was carried to the Kapuziner Crypt in the same coach used in the funeral of Emperor Franz Joseph in 1916. More than 200 members of the Habsburg and Bourbon-Parma families attended, as did some 6,000 state officials and international representatives, including a representative of Pope John Paul II.

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  2. 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. As such, she was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, in addition to other titles. She was declared Servant of God by ...

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  4. Mar 15, 1989 · By From News Services. March 15, 1989 at 12:00 a.m. EST. ZIZERS, SWITZERLAND -- Zita, 96, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg empire of Austria-Hungary whose role in a plan to end World War I ...

  5. Widowed at the age of 29, Zita never married again. She resided with her children in the Palacio Uribarren at Lekeitio, near Bilbao from 1922 until 1929, when they went to Belgium. In 1936, Zita’s brother, Prince Xavier of Bourbon Parma, was nominated the Carlist Pretender to the Throne of Spain. Prince Otto von Habsburg served as a symbol

  6. 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. Zita grew up in a large family in which ...

  7. Mar 14, 1989 · Zita, the last empress of ... Zita, the Last Hapsburg Empress, Dies. L.A. Times Archives. March 14, 1989 12 AM PT . ... Born in Italy as a princess of Bourbon-Parma, Zita was the widow of Karl I ...

  8. Mar 15, 1989 · The Almanach de Gotha listed Zita as the 10th of the 19 children of the deposed Duke Robert of Bourbon-Parma. Her mother, Duke Robert's second wife, was the former Princess Antonia of the royal ...

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