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Article: Zita, 96, the Last Empress Of Hapsburg Dynasty, Dies
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 15, 1989
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Zita, 96, the last empress of the vast Hapsburg empire of
Austria-Hungary whose role in a plan to end World War I led to exile
from her Austrian palace, died March 14 at her apartment in a former
Franciscan convent here. The cause of death was not reported.
For the past three decades, the woman who once held court at the
Versailles-sized castle of Schoenbrunn in Vienna had lived in two
plainly furnished rooms.
The former empress was born a princess of Bourbon-Parma on May 9,
1892, at Pianore, near Pisa, Italy, into the large family of Duke
Robert of Parma. In October 1911, at the age of 19, she married
Archduke Karl, who was to become the last crowned head of the
Hapsburg dynasty that had ...