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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.
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Mar 15, 1989 · Zita, the last Empress of Austria-Hungary, died yesterday at her longtime residence, a Roman Catholic home for the elderly in Zizers, a village in eastern Switzerland. She was 96 years old.
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.
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.
Apr 1, 2019 · History in covers: On this date in 1989, the funeral of Zita, the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was held in St Stephen’s Cathedral in Vienna. Afterwards her remains were conveyed with all the funerary pomp of the long-gone Habsburg Empire to the Imperial Vault of the Capuchin Church.
Mar 14, 1989 · Zita, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg Empire whose role in a plan to end World War I led to exile from her Austrian palace, died today. She was 96. Born in Italy as a princess of Bourbon...
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