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The Last Empress

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ISBN: 9780006472094

The Life and Times of Zita of Austria-Hungary, 1892–1989

by Gordon Brook-Shepherd · 1991 edition

The standard English-language biography of Empress Zita, drawing on her diaries — the dynasty’s downfall, the exile to Madeira and Charles’s death there in 1922, and her six decades of exile.

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Author: Gordon Brook-Shepherd
Edition year: 1991
Publisher: HarperCollins
Language: English
ISBN-13: 9780006472094

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