Daughters of Archduke Karl Ludwig

If somebody has pictures/informations about the following Archduchesses, please post it!

MARGARETHE SOPHIE (1870-1902), Princess of Wuerttemberg

MARIA ANNUNZIATA (Miana) (1876-1961)

ELISABETH AMALIA (1878-1960), Princess of Liechtenstein

I'm especially interested in Miana!

Margarethe Sophie Maria Annunziata Theresia Caroline Luise Josephe Johanna was born on 13 May 1870 in the castle of Artstetten. She was the only daughter of Karl Ludwig and his second wife beautiful Maria Annunziata, Princess og Bourbon - Two Sicilies.
Margarethe was given the name of Karl Ludwig's first wife Margarethe, Princess of Saxony (1840-1858.). Her nickname was Gretel.
She lost her mother Annunziata (Ciolla) when she was only one year old. But she was very close to her stepmother Maria Theresia, Infanta of Portugal, as well as her three elder brothers. Especially Franz Ferdinand loved his little sister a lot. He even wrote in a letter that his future wife has to be just like Margarethe. Later they didn't have any contact because they had an argument because of an inheritance.

After being Princess-Abbess at the Hradschin in Prague, she married Albrecht, Duke of Württemberg in 1893. They had seven children:

- Philipp Albrecht (1893-1975)
- Albrecht Eugen (1895-1954)
- Carl Alexander (1896-1964)
- Marie Amélie (1897-1923)
- Maria Theresia (1898-1928.)
- Marie Elisabeth (1899-1900)
- Margarethe (1902-1945)

Margarethe died on 24 August 1902 in Gmunden, Austria. The cause of her death were problems after an appendectomy. She was laid to rest at Altshausen.

Some pics



Margarethe Sophie as a baby with her brother Ferdinand Karl (later Ferdinand Burg).



Baby Miana with Ferdinand and Margarethe Sophie



Margarethe Sophie, Maria Theresia, Otto, (behind him) Miana, Karl Ludwig, (behind him) Elisabeth, Ferdinand Karl and Franz Ferdinand.



Karl Ludwig, Margarethe Sophie, her fiancée Albrecht and Archduke Ludwig Victor, Karl Ludwig's younger brother.



Margarethe Sophie and Albrecht



Margarethe Sophie, Albrecht and their children



Margarethe Sophie (who became quite ugly ...)



Margarethe Sophie's funeral

Maria Annunziata

- her mother actually named her after her husband´s second wife Princess Maria Annunziata of Bourbon-Sicily
- she never married, but I think she spent much time with her sister and her family

Elisabeth Amalie

- married Alois von und zu Liechtenstein. Alois actually had to give up his Austrian citizenship to be able to marry Elisabeth. This was a demand of Emperor Franz Joseph I.
- they had a quite large brood of children: Franz Joseph, Maria Theresia, Karl, Georg, Ulrich, Henriette, Alois and Heinrich
- in 1944/45 she and her husband had to leave their estates in Eastern Europe and left for Liechtenstein, where their son was ruling

Margarethe Sophie (who became quite ugly ...)

Hee, very true... . She was quite cute as a child and young woman, so her looks as an adult are quite disappointing...

Elisabeth with her husband and son Franz Joseph




with her grandson Hans-Adam

Hee, very true... . She was quite cute as a child and young woman, so her looks as an adult are quite disappointing...

Really--I don't think she looks that bad.  :-/  I have seen a lot of princesses who look way worse. I think she just looks older and more worn.

The photo of her and Albrecht when they were a young couple is lovely. What an attractive couple they were.

I read somwhere can't remember right now where, that Maria Annuziata was engaged for a very short time to a Bavaria duke, a nephew of Empress Elisabeth. Is that true?

Wasn't his name Siegfried? He apparently had the mental instability that occured throughout the Wittelsbachs. There's something about it in Royalty Before the War, I believe.

Archduchess Maria Annunziata was engaged for a brief time to Siegfried, son of Duke Mapperl in Bavaria, but she broke off the engagement. I have a pic of them together somewhere, need to dig it out.

The engagement of Maria Annunziata and Duke Siegfried in Bavaria was in 1902. They spent a lot of time together during their childhood, because Siegfried and his younger brothers had a very close relationship to their uncle Duke Carl Theodor and his wife Marie José. Marie Therese, Maria Annunziata's mother, was Marie José's sister and visited Tegernsee and Possenhofen very often with her daughters.

After the engagement, Siegfried accompanied Miana, her sister Elisabeth (Liesl) and Archduchess Maria Theresia on a journey to England. In this time, Siegfried became strange. After they had returned to Vienna, Miana asked her uncle Emperor Franz Joseph for permission to break off.

Siegfried took part in horse racings. In 1899 he fell off a horse and was hurt badly. Marie Redwitz, a lady in waiting of Carl Theodor's daughters, wrote that this was the cause of his strange behaviour. In 1908 he was incapacitated and brought to a mental home in Nuefriedenheim. But later he was able to live in his house in Schwabing. He died unmarried on 12th March 1952 - two days after his 76. birthday.

Miana



Elisabeth Amalia

Miana and her little sister Elisabeth (ca. 1881)

Maria Annunziata




Elisabeth Amalie (named after Empress Elisabeth)

Archduchess Marie Therese, Infanta of Portugal and Princess of Braganza with her first-born daughter Maria Annunziata




Archduchess Marie Therese with her daughters Miana and Elisabeth

A beautiful photograph of Miana