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Empress Carlota of Mexico
Empress Carlota, born Princess Charlotte of Belgium (June 7, – January 19, ) was briefly the Empress of Mexico, from to She suffered from a lifetime of serious mental illness after her husband, Maximilian, was deposed in Mexico, but escaped his violent fate.
Early Life
Princess Charlotte, later to be known as Carlota, was the only daughter of Leopold I of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, king of Belgium, a Protestant, and Louise of France, a Catholic. She was a first cousin of both Queen Victoria and Victoria's husband, Prince Albert. (Victoria's mother Victoria and Albert's father Ernst were both siblings of Leopold.)
Her father had been married to Princess Charlotte of Great Britain, who was expected to eventually become Britain's Queen. Sadly, Charlotte died of complications the day after giving birth to a stillborn son after some fifty hours of labor. Leopold later married Louise Marie of Orléans, whose father was the king of France, and they named their daughter Charlotte in memory of Leopold's first wife. They also had three sons.
Louise Marie died of tuberculosis when Charlotte was only ten. From that point on, Charlotte lived most of the time with her grandmother, Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies, Queen of France, married to
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Carlota (–)
Belgian princess who accompanied Maximilian on an ill-fated adventure to Mexico, where she was crowned empress and witnessed royal splendor, civil war, personal tragedy, and ultimately dementia in an attempt to bring monarchical rule to the land of the Aztecs. Name variations: Carlotta, Charlotte, Charlotte of Belgium, Charlotte Saxe-Coburg; Marie Charlotte of Saxe-Coburg. Pronunciation: Car-LOW-ta. Born Marie Charlotte Amelie Augustine Victoire Clementine Leopoldine on June 7, , at Laeken, Belgium; died at the castle of Bouchout, Belgium, on January 19, ; daughter of Leopold I (–), king of the Belgians (r. –), and his third wife Princess Louise d'Orléans (–); married Archduke Maximilian von Habsburg, on July 27, ; children: none, except for the adoption of son Agustín de Iturbide in
After marriage to Archduke Maximilian and his appointment as Austrian viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia, the couple began residence in northeastern Italy; after the Austrians had been expelled from Lombardy (), they relocated to the palace of Miramar on the Adriatic coast near Trieste; bored with his idle life at the palace (and evidently exasperated by the ambitions of his wife), Maximilian made a grand tour of Brazil (); meanwhile agents of the Mexican conservative party and of Na
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Charlotte of Belgium
Empress of Mexico from seat
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Empress Carlota of Mexico, by Port Rebull, Presently at picture Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City. | |||
| Tenure | 10 April &#;&#; 15 May | ||
| Born | ()7 June Palace of Laeken, Laeken, Brussels, Kingdom marvel at Belgium | ||
| Died | 19 Jan () (aged&#;86) Bouchout Castle, Meise, Kingdom unbutton Belgium | ||
| Burial | Royal Vault, Church take Our Muslim of Laeken | ||
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| Father | Leopold I declining Belgium | ||
| Mother | Louise light Orléans | ||
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