THE EMPEROR’S MOTHER
COMPULSIONS OF POVERTY The ex-Archduchess Maria Josefa of Austria, widow of the ex-Emperor Karl’s father, Archduke Otto Hapsburg, and grandmother of little exArchduke Otto, eldest son of the exEmperor and the ex-Empress Zita, has just celebrated her 60th birthday in her modest villa at Geiselgasteig, a suburb of Munich. She lives in close retirement with her former lady-in-waiting, Marchioness Kreszenze Pallavicini, attended by two old servants, man and wife. She lost nearly all her property by the revolution in Austria and has had to furnish her little home gradually out of a very slender income. Her chief recreation is going to the opera or the theatre in Munich when the management invites her, for she cannot afford to buy seats in the better parts of the house. She always goes to and from the theatre in a tramway-car or on foot, her only excursions from home. Otto, her grandson, has written her all about his new school life at Luxembourg. where he is learning especially English and French, being already proficient in Hungarian and German.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 114, 4 August 1927, Page 12
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178THE EMPEROR’S MOTHER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 114, 4 August 1927, Page 12
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