DYING EMPRESS
CHARLOTTE OF MEXICO.
EUROPE'S MOST PATHETIC FIGURE
(Rec. 9.10 p.m.) Brussels, January 18. The Empress Charlotte of Mexico is dying. Her mind has been deranged since her husband was murdered in 1867.—A. and N.Z.
The Empress Charlotte was born at Laeken, near Brussels, in 1840. She is the only daughter of Leopold I. of Belgium and Louise, princess of Orleans. In 1857 she married Maximilian, Archduke of Austria, whom, on his acceptance of the Imperial crown (1864), she accompanied to Mexico. She was sent by Maximilian in 1866 to Napoleon 111. and Pope Plus IX. to secure assistance against the republicans. Failing in her mission, and foreseeing the fall of her husband, she became hopelessly insane, and has been confined since 1879 in the care of her family near Brussels.
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Southland Times, Issue 20081, 19 January 1927, Page 5
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