The Habsburgs - Grand Dukes of Toscana

Gd Dss Anne + Leopoldo II's  daughter Marie Antoinette was Abbess of the theresian Convent in Prague and was a candidate to marry the crown prince Rudolf in 1880.......within 3 years she had a a natural son " Robert Pachmann". was she off the rails ?

I think there is an own topic on the Pachmann affair, and it seems that it is only a legend. But I cannot say it for sure.

Where did they marry in Florence?

Maria Anna and Ferdinand? They married in Vienna on 27 February 1831.

Many thanks , I wonder where in Vienna? The Habsburg had 3 chapels around the Hofburg and sometimes it was a drawingroom or bedroom in the palace. I actually mean't where did the Gd Dukes marry in Florence...publicly in a state celebration in the city or a family affair in the Pitti Palace?

Many thanks , I wonder where in Vienna? The Habsburg had 3 chapels around the Hofburg and sometimes it was a drawingroom or bedroom in the palace. I actually mean't where did the Gd Dukes marry in Florence...publicly in a state celebration in the city or a family affair in the Pitti Palace?

I will look it up when I'm back home.

I cannot get the link to work on the discussion of the Pachmann affair! A notice says it is no longer there.

Many thanks , I wonder where in Vienna? The Habsburg had 3 chapels around the Hofburg and sometimes it was a drawingroom or bedroom in the palace. I actually mean't where did the Gd Dukes marry in Florence...publicly in a state celebration in the city or a family affair in the Pitti Palace?

According to Alois Jahn's "Das Haus Habsburg" Ferdinand and Maria Anna married in the Hofburg (Leopoldinischer Trakt, Kammer-Kapelle St. Joseph).

Then I had a look at the places where the Granddukes married:

Ferdinand III. and his first wife Maria Luisa of Naples: Augustinerkirche, Wien (19.09.1790)
Ferdinand III. and his second wife Maria Anna of Saxony: Florence (06.05.1821)

Leopold II. and his first wife Maria Anna of Saxony: Florence (16.11.1817)
Leopold II. and his second wife Maria Antonia of Naples: Naples (07.06.1833)

Ferdinand IV. and his first wife Anna Maria of Saxony: Dresden (24.11.1856)
Ferdinand IV. and his second wife Alix of Bourbon-Parma: Schloss Frohsdorf, Wiener Neustadt (11.01.1868)

I´m also interested in knowing more about Alice. As far as I know, she received a strict upbringing; her daughter Luisa stated in her Memories that Alice loved to wear beautiful jewels, including a necklace that had been used by queen Marie Antoinette, but it seems that Alice was, also, an almost fanatical catholic...I suppose she suffered a lot when her daughter Luisa eloped from Dresde, leaving husband and children, with the belgian teacher of the children...

it ruined the family and lost her other daughters any hope of marriage.

Truly?? Were the other daughters socially "punished" because the huge scandal created by Luisa??

I think one other daughter other than Luisa made a good marriage. To be fair, the remaining daughters were not so beautiful asto attract suitors in that sense. 

duh? the Prince of Hohenlohe, hardly!

Well,considering that they were in exile,that the scandal prevented the other daughters getting married,that the Prince von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was rich and equal in technical terms she did make a catch...and just maybe it could be a love-match,but I don't know!

Well,considering that they were in exile,that the scandal prevented the other daughters getting married,that the Prince von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein was rich and equal in technical terms she did make a catch...and just maybe it could be a love-match,but I don't know!

Archduchess Anna married in 1901, before the Luise scandal. All other sisters remained unmarried mostly becouse of Luise's reputation.

Recently I've read a book by Princess Radziwill and she states GD Alice was a very narrow-minded person who lived like a machine praying all day long and bearing  children...Of course many revelations of the famous authoress must be viewed critically though I guess in describing Alice and her family she is not far from true.

Was it a love match?I mean between Archduchess Anna and Prince Johannes Friedrich von Hohenlohe-Bartenstein?Don't know much about them...