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In a set of nearly 400 letters found in 1995 (mainly intended for a French officer whom she had met in Mexico, Charles Loysel ), [100] she declares herself "dead" at the fall of the Mexican Empire.
Mar 20, 2019 · His body was buried in Europe. Carlota was taken back to Belgium that summer. From then on, Carlota lived in seclusion for the last nearly sixty years of her life. She spent her time in Belgium and Italy, never recovering her mental health, and perhaps never fully knowing of her husband's death.
- Jone Johnson Lewis
Jan 22, 2023 · The documentary Maximilian and Carlota: an Imperial Dream makes a very interesting observation. When she abandoned Mexico she was only 26 years old and got lost in her own mind at that moment in history of great carriages, candlelit mansions, and great monarchies ruling the world.
Oct 12, 2023 · Carlota tried to rule Mexico with her husband Maximilian I before their empire fell, breaking her heart and her mind.
Died: Jan. 19, 1927, near Brussels (aged 86) Notable Family Members: spouse Maximilian. father Leopold I. Carlota (born June 7, 1840, Laeken, Belg.—died Jan. 19, 1927, near Brussels) was the wife of the emperor Maximilian of Mexico. The only daughter of Leopold I, king of the Belgians, and Princess Louise of Orléans, Carlota married at age ...
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Apr 5, 2014 · On May 28, 1864, Maximilian, 31, and Charlotte (known as Carlota in Mexico), 23, stepped off the Austrian flagship Novara. Told they had a mandate to govern a pacified nation, the ambitious...
Born Louise-Marie Bourbon-Penthievre on April 3, 1812, in Palermo, Sicily; died on October 10 (some sources cite the 11th), 1850, in Ostende, Belgium; interred in Laeken, Belgium; daughter of Louis Philippe I (1773–1850), citizen king of France (r. 1830–1850), and Maria Amalia (1782–1866); became third wife of Leopold I, king of the ...
