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A great-niece of Marie Antoinette: Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (14 July 1817 - 25 March 1886). Maria Theresa’s father, Francis IV of Modena, was the son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, a son of Maria Theresa and brother of Marie Antoinette. Maria Theresa had another yet connection to her great-aunt: She was chosen by Marie Antoinette’s surviving daughter, Marie Therese Charlotte, to marry the grandson of Charles X, Henri, the comte de Chambord. They married in 1846, although it was said that Henri preferred her younger sister, Maria Beatrix. Maria Theresa was later instrumental in the creation of a crypt for the French Royal Family in Görz, which is now Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She was buried there alongside her husband after her death in 1886. Image: Maria Theresa of Austria-Este

A great-niece of Marie Antoinette: Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este (14 July 1817 - 25 March 1886).

Maria Theresa’s father, Francis IV of Modena, was the son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, a son of Maria Theresa and brother of Marie Antoinette.

Maria Theresa had another yet connection to her great-aunt: She was chosen by Marie Antoinette’s surviving daughter, Marie Therese Charlotte, to marry the grandson of Charles X, Henri, the comte de Chambord. They married in 1846, although it was said that Henri preferred her younger sister, Maria Beatrix. Maria Theresa was later instrumental in the creation of a crypt for the French Royal Family in Görz, which is now Nova Gorica, Slovenia. She was buried there alongside her husband after her death in 1886.

Image: Maria Theresa of Austria-Este

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Across the courtyard we went, stumbling over the uneven cobblestones, and through a low wicket gate in the flank of the Tower. A twisting staircase made of thick slabs of stone rose up into the darkness above us. A guard bearing a torch climbed up first to light our way. Noticing Maman’s terrified expression, the Marsellleis soldiers standing watch over us mocked us with the words of an old song: “Madame ascends her tower, not knowing when she’ll descend!” … I lay awake for a long time beside my mother in the hot, stuffy darkness. What did it all mean? Would Papa no longer be King of France at all? What did people do with a king they no longer wanted? —The Princess in the Tower by Sharon Stewart Image: The royal family being transferred to the Temple in 1792, detail from an engraving.

Across the courtyard we went, stumbling over the uneven cobblestones, and through a low wicket gate in the flank of the Tower. A twisting staircase made of thick slabs of stone rose up into the darkness above us. A guard bearing a torch climbed up first to light our way. Noticing Maman’s terrified expression, the Marsellleis soldiers standing watch over us mocked us with the words of an old song: “Madame ascends her tower, not knowing when she’ll descend!” …

I lay awake for a long time beside my mother in the hot, stuffy darkness. What did it all mean? Would Papa no longer be King of France at all?

What did people do with a king they no longer wanted?

—The Princess in the Tower by Sharon Stewart

Image: The royal family being transferred to the Temple in 1792, detail from an engraving.

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