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Archduchess Margarete Sophie of Austria (Margarete Sophie Marie Annunciata Theresia Caroline Luise Josephe Johanna; 13 May 1870 – 24 August 1902) was a member of the House of Habsburg and an Archduchess of Austria by birth. She was married to Duke Albrecht of Württemberg.
Although Sophie did not openly interfere in day-to-day political decision-making, she was de facto the political mastermind and ‘agenda-setter’ behind her son. As the ‘secret empress’ she became a figure of hate for the liberal forces in the monarchy.
Archduchess Sophie of Austria (5 March 1855 – 29 May 1857) was the first child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She died aged two.
When Sophie learned that her parents had arranged for her to marry Franz Karl, Archduke of Austria—who was deemed by many as un-ambitious and incapable—she turned extremely furious that he called him an “imbecile”.
When the pressure of the revolution of 1848 compelled Emperor Ferdinand to abdicate, Sophie urged her husband Franz Karl to renounce his claim to the throne and pushed through the accession of her eighteen-year-old son Franz Joseph.
Unknown artist: Archduchess Margaret of Austria as widow, painting, after 1506 Margaret was a daughter of Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. Her high birth made her an object of dynastic policy from infancy.
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