Emperor Karl I (1887-1922), Empress Zita ("The Last Empress") (1892-1989) and Family

[geli]

I would like to start this topic on the last empress Zita of Austria (1892-1989) so that all those which appreciate this very great lady can post infos, anecdotes or pics on her, her husband Karl I and their family, in order to pay homage to her.

Everyone is invited to take part.

Thanks in advance.

[Royalist0007]

Geli,Empress Zita never renounced her royal & imperial status after the abolition of the Empire of Austria-Hungary.She supported her son's anti-Nazi exile organisation during World War II.I know very little about her after World War II,however.

Aidan.

[princess olga]

http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.d...z/z648535a.jpg

A photo of her.

[flcty]

the following link has more pictures of Zita with her children: http://members.fortunecity.com/verenad/Zita.html

Anyone out there has any information about Zita's life prior marriage to karl?

[MAfan]

Originally Posted by flcty

hi geli,
thought you might want to visit the following link. it has more pictures of zita with her children.
Empress Zita of Austria (1892-1989) and her children

Anyone out there has any information about Zita's life prior marriage to karl?

I was looking the last picture, and I could not recognize some persons...Can someone help me?
1st row: Yolande, Regina, Otto, Zita, Robert, Margherita, ?? (maybe Anna Eugenie)
2nd row: Carl Ludwig, Anna Gabriele, Rudolph, ?? (maybe Charlotte), ?? (maybe Heinrich), ?? (maybe Felix), ?? (maybe Elisabeth)

And in the second row of the second picture, are they Adelheid, Elisabeth, Charlotte and Felix?

Thanks

[magnik]

I googled and I found :
http://www.ww1-propaganda-cards.com/...austria09v.JPG

http://www.firstworldwar.com/photos/...hw_karl_01.jpg

http://donaldbinks.com.au/images/zita1892-2.gif

http://entertainment.webshots.com/ph...94285158zZiPiU isn't it Empress Elisabth's tiara?


Charles of Austria : Andrew Cusack

[Stefan]

Originally Posted by MAfan

I was looking the last picture, and I could not recognize some persons...Can someone help me?
1st row: Yolande, Regina, Otto, Zita, Robert, Margherita, ?? (maybe Anna Eugenie)
2nd row: Carl Ludwig, Anna Gabriele, Rudolph, ?? (maybe Charlotte), ?? (maybe Heinrich), ?? (maybe Felix), ?? (maybe Elisabeth)

And in the second row of the second picture, are they Adelheid, Elisabeth, Charlotte and Felix?

Thanks

Yes the last woman in the first row is Archduchess Anna Eugenie
and in the second row
the woman in orrange is Archduchess Charlotte and the other Archduchess Elisabeth. Not sure about the men.

[JulieS]

Do you know some good books about Emperor Karl I ?

[princess olga]

Here's an interesting article on her life from Wikipedia. There's some pictures as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zita_of_Bourbon-Parma

[flcty]

found this little article on zita (which focuses mostly on Karl)...

(taken exactly from above link. the website has pictures )
Karl of Austria was the last Emperor of Austria, the last Apostolic King of Hungary, the last King of Bohemia and the last monarch of the Habsburg dynasty. He was beatified by Pope John Paul II in Rome on October 3, 2004.
Archduke Karl was born on 17 August 1887 in the castle of Persenbeug in Austria. His parents were the Archduke Otto and Princess Maria Josefa of Saxony. Emperor Franz Josef was Karl's great-uncle. When Karl was 8 years old, a famous nun in Sopron, Hungary, prophesied that the child “must be enveloped in prayers, for he will be emperor someday and will have to suffer greatly. He will be a special target of hell.” As a result, Count and Countess Wallis, who were charged with the education of Karl, founded a small prayer circle in 1895. This prayer circle later became the League of Prayers with thousands of members worldwide...
http://www.cryingvoice.com/Picture_8.html

[Vanesa]

How a nice little boy Otto was when very little! Such a cutie pie...

Vanesa.

[geli]

Tkank you with all for your answers which really pleased to me !

Here are two pictures of Zita at the time of her engagement to the archiduke Carl Franz Josef of Austria (1887-1922), later emperor Karl I :

[Benjamin]

Here are some other nice threads about Zita:
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/ind...ic,1983.0.html
http://forum.alexanderpalace.org/ind...ic,6568.0.html
http://www.royals-portal.de/forum/in...wtopic=6768&hl

[Next Star]

The former Austrian royal family hard to believe outranks all of the reigning princes and princess of current royals houses and they have not reigned or ruled in thousands of years.There are some nice pictures of the emperor and empress together and some pictures of the empress by herself .I like the tiara she was wearing does anyone know about the history of the tiara and does the royal family of Bourbon-Parma still own the tiara or was it lost or sold?

[TheQueen]

Originally Posted by Next Star

The former Austrian royal family hard to believe outranks all of the reigning princes and princess of current royals houses and they have not reigned or ruled in thousands of years.

Thousands of years? It hasn't even been a 100yrs yet? The monarchy was abolished at the end of World War I.

[Princess Robijn]

I visited Madeira with Christmas and there is a portret of Empress Zita with her family there..

[Next Star]

Okay it is not thousands of years but over eighty years that still does not change the fact they are not of an reigning royal house period.

Originally Posted by TheQueen

Thousands of years? It hasn't even been a 100yrs yet? The monarchy was abolished at the end of World War I.

[Warren]

Originally Posted by Next Star

...that still does not change the fact they are not of an reigning royal house period.

From my reading of the thread no-one has suggested they are. So, there are no "facts" which need changing, apart from the "thousands of years" statement, which should have read 1919 for Austria and 1921 for Hungary.

[Gloria78]

The tiara was used at the wedding between Princess Regina Sachsen-Meinigen and Erzherzog Otto. The tiara (made by Köchert) was a wedding gift from Kaiser Franz Joseph to Zita.

[britti]

That´s definitely Karl. Don´t you recognize him???

I hope we speak of the same picture : The one with Zita, and the man with the hat beside her. There is not much to see of his face because of the hat, but that´s the typical mouth and nose of Karl!