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Count of Chambord, Duchess of Angoulême, Duchess of Parma, Duke Charles III of Parma, Duke Francis IV of Modena, Duke of Angoulême, King Louis Philippe, King of the French, Louise, Marie Therése de Bourbon of France, Marie-Thérèse of Austria-Este, Prince Henri de Bourbon, Prince Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy
The royal family lived in what is now 22 (then 21) Regent Terrace in Edinburgh until 1833 when the former king chose to move to Prague as a guest of Marie-Thérèse’s cousin, Emperor Franz I of Austria.
They moved into luxurious apartments in Prague Castle. Later, the royal family left Prague and moved to the estate of Count Coronini near Gorizia, which was then Austrian but is in Italy today. Marie-Thérèse devotedly nursed her uncle through his last illness in 1836, when he died of cholera.
Her husband Prince Louis Antoine de Bourbon, Duke of Angoulême died in 1844 and was buried next to his father. Marie-Thérèse then moved to Schloss Frohsdorf, a baroque castle just outside Vienna, where she spent her days taking walks, reading, sewing and praying.
Her nephew, Prince Henri de Bourbon, who now styled himself as the Count of Chambord, and his sister, Princess Louise de Bourbon of Artois, wife of Charles III, Duke of Parma; joined Princess Marie-Thérèse there.
In 1848, King Louis Philippe’s reign ended in a revolution and, for the second time, France became a Republic.
Death
Marie-Thérèse died of pneumonia on October 19, 1851, three days after the fifty-eighth anniversary of her mother’s execution. She was buried next to her father-in-law, King Charles X, and her husband, Prince Louis Antoine, in the crypt of the Franciscan monastery church of Castagnavizza in Görz, then in Austria, now Kostanjevica in the Slovenian city of Nova Gorica. Marie-Thérèse had remained a devout Roman Catholic.
Later, her nephew Prince Henri, the Count of Chambord, last male member of the senior line of the House of Bourbon; his wife, the Countess of Chambord (formerly the Archduchess Marie-Thérèse of Austria-Este, daughter of Francis IV, Duke of Modena and his wife, Princess Maria Beatrice of Savoy); and the count’s only sister, Louise, Duchess of Parma, were also laid to rest in the crypt in Görz.
The famous antiquarian the Duke of Blacas was also buried there in honor of his dutiful years of service as a minister to Louis XVIII and Charles X.
Marie-Thérèse is described on her gravestone as the “Queen Dowager of France”, a reference to her husband’s claim as King Louis XIX of France.