Read part one here. Early in the next year, Carola visited her seriously ill mother at Morawetz, and she tragically died on 19 July – aged just 43. Over the coming year, the Crown Princely couple travelled a lot, to Switzerland, Italy and Austria. In 1859, they moved into the royal villa in Strehlen (Dresden). [read more]
Carola of Vasa was born on 5 August 1833 as the daughter of the former Crown Prince of Sweden, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, and his wife Princess Louise Amelie of Baden. Her grandfather, King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden, had been deposed in 1809. As such, Carola was born in exile at Schönbrunn Palace in [read more]
The Kingdom of Saxony began its life in 1806 as nearly 500 years of an Electorate of Saxony came to an end. The last elector became the first King of Saxony; his name was King Frederick Augustus I. The first Queen consort of Saxony was his wife, Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld. She went on to deliver three [read more]
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