Ca. 1918: Austian Empress Zita and Baby Child

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It shows Empress Zita and the youngest Prince.

Zita of Bourbon-Parma (May 9, 1892 - March 14, 1989) was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary.

She was born in Villa Pianore near Lucca in Italy. Zita married Karl of Austria in 1911 and in the following decade gave birth to eight children, starting with Crown Prince Otto (born 1912), the last head of the Habsburg dynasty.

She was accused by critics of being behind her exiled husband's attempts to regain his throne of Hungary, where the monarchy had been re-established under a regent after the end of the First World War, and from which he had not abdicated. After his death in 1922 she left Madeira but continued living abroad. In old age, from 1962 onward, she lived in Switzerland.

With Zita's death however no person remained alive who could supply any information on what the private views of the Imperial family and in particular the private views of Rudolf's father, Emperor Franz Josef of Austria had been on the controversial deaths.

In 1982, the Austrian government granted Zita the right to re-enter Austria although she had never renounced the Habsburg claim to the throne. After her death in Zizers in 1989, she was buried in Vienna's Kapuzinergruft, the crypt in the city centre which had served for centuries as the Habsburg family's burial place, in what was in effect a state funeral, attended by leading politicians, state officials and international representatives from states, including a representative of Pope John Paul II.

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