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Empress Zita

3 books about Madeira tagged “Empress Zita”.

Cover of A Heart for Europe
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A Heart for Europe

James Bogle, Joanna Bogle · 2000

A joint biography of the last Habsburg emperor, Charles (Karl) I, and Empress Zita — covering his final exile and death from pneumonia at Quinta do Monte in Madeira in 1922 and his burial at the church of Nossa Senhora do Monte.

Cover of The Last Empress
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The Last Empress

Gordon Brook-Shepherd · 1991

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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