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Zita of Bourbon-Parma

Zita of Bourbon-Parma
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Empress Zita, at her coronation as Queen of Hungary, 1916
Tenure 21 November 1916 – 11 November 1918
Coronation 30 December 1916
Born (1892-05-09)9 May 1892
Villa Pianore, Tuscany, Kingdom of Italy
Died 14 March 1989(1989-03-14) (aged 96)
Zizers, Landquart District, Grisons, Switzerland
Burial 1 April 1989
Spouse Emperor Charles I of Austria
(m. 1911 - 1922; his death)
Issue
House Bourbon-Parma
Father Robert I, Duke of Parma
Mother Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal
Religion Roman Catholicism
Signature
Servant of God Zita of Austria-Hungary
Empress; Laywoman
Venerated in Roman Catholic Church
Feast 21 October
Styles of
Zita of Austria
Imperial Coat of Arms of the Empire of Austria.svg
Reference style Her Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty
Spoken style Your Imperial and Royal Apostolic Majesty
Alternative style Ma'am

Zita of Bourbon-Parma (Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989) was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria. As such, she was the last Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, and many others (see Grand title of the Empress of Austria)..

Born as the seventeenth child of the dispossessed Robert I, Duke of Parma and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita married the then Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911. Charles became heir presumptive to the Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in 1914 after the assassination of his uncle Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, and acceded to the throne in 1916 after the old emperor's death.

After the end of World War I in 1918, the Habsburgs were deposed and the empire became four independent countries, Austria, Hungary, and the newly formed Czechoslovakia and State of Slovenes, Croats and Serbs. Charles and Zita left for exile in Switzerland and later Madeira, where Charles died in 1922. After her husband's death, Zita and her son Otto served as symbols of unity for the exiled dynasty. A devout Roman Catholic, she raised a large family after being widowed at the age of 29, and never remarried.


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