Archduchess Maria Antonietta of Austria (1858–1883)

Archduchess Maria Antonietta of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (Maria Antonietta Leopolda Annunziata Anna Amalia Giuseppa Giovanna Immacolata Tecla; 10 January 1858 – 13 April 1883) was born a Princess of the Grand Duchy of Tuscany which was ruled by her father Grand Duke Ferdinando IV of Tuscany, himself the head of the Tuscan branch of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. Forced to flee Tuscany in 1860, she moved to Salzburg with her exiled family. At the imperial court in Vienna, there were rumours of her having an affair with Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, though untrue the Crown Prince's father Franz Joseph I of Austria created the Archduchess the Imperial and Royal Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies of Prague Castle on 	November 14 1879, itself a highly esteemed rank and title that had been held by unmarried atrchduchesses for centuries. In November 1882 she moved to Cannes, to better her health which had been greatly affected for years by tuberculosis, had deteriorated. She settled in Villa Felice, where the climate was milder and she spent the last few years there.

Titles and styles

 * 10 January 1858 - 13 April 1883 Her Imperial and Royal Highness The Archduchess Maria Antonietta of Austria, Princess of Tuscany.

Honours

 * Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross (Austria)