Princess Alicia de Bourbon-Parma
(1849-1935)
Born 27 December 1849 Parma
Died 16 January 1935 Schwertberg
Married 11 January 1868 Frohsdorf
Ferdinand IV, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Archduke of Austria,
son of Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany, Archduke of
Austria and Princess Maria Antonietta of The Two Sicilies
Born 10 June 1835 Firenze
Died 17 January 1908 Salzburg
Princess Alicia Maria Carolina Ferdinanda Rachael Giovanna Filomena
was born on 27 December 1849 in Parma, daughter of Carlo III, Duke of Parma,
and Princess Louise Marie de France. On 11 January 1868 in Frohsdorf, she
married the exiled Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand IV, and they became
the parents of ten children. They lived in Salzburg, Austria, in an Italian
neighbourhood where Italian was the main language.
Despite many financial difficulties they held up the fiction of a court.
On 17 January 1908 her husband died in Salzburg. In 1918, after the fall
of the Austrian monarchy, she left Salzburg and lived, together with three
of her unmarried daughters, in Schwertberg, Upper Austria. She was able
to keep this residence as it had been part of her private inheritance and,
on 16 January 1935, died there.
Source: Leo van de Pas
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