!!!Zita von Bourbon-Parma

b. Villa Pianore (Italy), May 9, 1892, 
d. Zizers (Switzerland), March 14, 1989, last Empress of Austria; 1911 
married  Karl I of Habsburg, who became Emperor in 1916, mother of 
Otto  Habsburg-Lothringen. Had considerable influence on the decisions 
of her husband. In 1917 she provoked the  Sixtus Affair. After the 
death of her husband in 1922 she moved to Spain, in 1929 to Belgium 
and in 1940 to Canada. Engaged in charity work from 1944 to 1948, 
lived in Switzerland from 1962 and was allowed to enter Austria in 
1982.

!Literature
E. Feigl, Kaiserin Z., %%sup 5/%1991; J. Sevillia, Z. 
Kaiserin ohne Thron, 1998.



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