Source: Hapsburger.net Nowhere is Christmas celebrated with so much fervor as at the Austrian Court. A few years ago when Archduchess Marie-Valerie was a child…

A daguerreotype of Empress Marie Louise, taken shortly before her death in 1847. On December 18, 1847, Marie Louise, Archduchess of Austria and second wife o…

A young Empress Zita. Image from Wikimedia Commons Empress Zita of Austria was born on May 9, 1892, at the Villa Pianore near Viareggio. She was the seven…

Archduke Carl of Austria and Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma on their wedding in 1911. On the far left is a happy Emperor Franz Josef. Image from Wikimedia Comm…

In pictures, left, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, right, the archduchess and her husband with their children.  Archduchess Gisela of Austria was sober …

Empress Maria Anna and Emperor Ferdinand. Image: Wikimedia When Maria Anna of Savoy married King Ferdinand V of Hungary, she knew the difficulties sh…

Marriage of Napoleon and Marie-Louise (1811) by Georges Rouget. Image: Wikimedia Commons Napoleon Bonaparte fell head over heels to the Austrian Archduc…