Word: empresse
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...former Empress Zita of Hungary, widow of the unfortunate Charles, who died in exile on the island of Madeira in 1922 after two attempts to regain his crown, has not even the right to her own jewels, according to the Italian Government...
Said the Italian Embassy: "The Italian Government warns the public against purchasing any jewelry belonging to the ex-Empress Zita, as the Italian Government has a prior claim thereto...
...does not see the green fields of Belgium, heavy with heat. Empress Carlotta, widow of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, sees only days of youth. To her the chateau is Mexico's royal palace. Her nurses and doctors are courtiers and gallants. Nearby young Maximilian, her emperor husband, is waiting and will come...
King Albert of Belgium visited his aunt, the ex-Empress, last week. He was to her only a courtier in her halucinatory court...
...Empress Carlotta, known to the Habsburg Court as "Belgian Charlotte " is a sister of Leopold II, late king of the Belgians. She had influence in Vienna after marrying the Archduke Maximilian, brother of the late Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary. It was on account of her meddlesomeness that the court hated her and was unmistakably relieved when she departed with her husband to rule Mexico, through the instrumentality of Napoleon III, Emperor of France...