Princess Blanche de Bourbon
(1868-1949)
Born 7 September 1868 Graz
Died 25 October 1949 Viareggio
Married 24 October 1889 Castle Frohsdorf
Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany,
son of Archduke Karl Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany
and Princess Maria Immacolata of The Two Sicilies
Born 15 October 1863 Alt-Bunzlau
Died 4 September 1931 Wien
Daughter of the Carlist pretender to the Spanish throne, Don Carlos,
Duque de Madrid, and Princess Margherita de Bourbon-Parma, on 24 October
1889 in Castle Frohsdorf she married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria,
Prince of Tuscany, and they became the parents of ten
children. In the First World War she was a Red Cross nurse as well
as 'Protektorin des Landes- und Frauenhilfsvereins' in Graz. Due to her
husband's war related inventions they had become very rich. In 1918 she
moved with her family to Spain. From 1931 onwards, when her husband died,
she also lived some of the time in Vienna.
Source: Leo van de Pas |
