In Prince Christopher's memoirs, he speaks of this interesting princess: "One relation who came to visit us off and on was my mother's cousin, Princess Therese of Bavaria, who amazed everyone with her erudition; she could speak twenty different languages and answered freely in any one she happened to be addressed in. She was an extremely interesting personality, a well-known scientist and great explorer; there were few parts of the globe she had not visited, hunting for flora and fauna."
What little else I could find about her was that she was the daughter of Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and Archduchess Auguste of Austria.
She was born in Munich in 1850 and died in 1925. She apparently never married.
She had 3 brothers: King Ludwig III of Bavaria, who married Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Princess of Modena; Prince Leopold of Bavaria who married the Archduchess Gisela; and Prince Arnulf of Bavaria, who married Princess Therese of Liechtenstein.
Between 1888 and 1898, she went on two extensive research and collecting expeditions to South America, gathering butterflies and moths. Her collections are now in a Munich museum.
Does anyone have any other information about this lady? I love royals who find a "purpose" or job in life, and she must have been a very interesting and intelligent person.