Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-12-03 | Page 13 | New Empress Zita Has Sister Who is Nun in England

NEW EMPRESS ZIT ZITA A AHAS HAS SISTER WHO IS NUN IN ENGLAND Archduke Met l Her at Court Ball and Her Dancing Captivated Him GRACEFUL AND WITTY I i Neither Had When Wed VIed Expectation of Ascending Ascend Ascend- I the Throne ing v.- v. ft By 81 The trams tram's Special pedal New Neal Sen Ice J. J VIENNA NNA Dec 2 Eight Eight years ago Emperor Charles I. I of Hun Austria ga gary did not even know the Bourbon Bourbon- ti i Parma princ princess ss who is today his empress em em- lir liro press press- and the mother of the the- heir ap apparent apri ap- ap ri parent to the Ue throne of or the Emperor Francis Joseph had different ferent plans for Archduke Charles Francis and proposed propose that he marry a a. daughter of or the Archduchess Marie Valeria the emperors emperor's own daughter I Q In 1890 1390 had been married to the Archduke Francis Salvator of Haps Haps- 1 burg The young archduke 1 brought up to obey appears to have been willing enough until in the spring prang of 1909 he went to of the Archduchess Bohemia as a guest ess Marie Annunziata Among the guests was the young oung Princess Zita of or Bourbon She was war a slip of a girl graceful witty an ana nd attractive and the archduke lost his heart They continued to meet at balls baUs and other festivities and occaSIonally occaSionally oc- oc at the hunting lodge of the Archduchess Marie Marle Therese The It was wasat wasat wast at t a court ball in 1911 that the arch- arch dice lio declared his love for the prince prin prin- ce cess s. s His attention being called to a graceful r dancer he replied Oh I have liked her for a long time The emperor it is said was not easily won over but finally relented Having In mind perhaps his own love affair when he overthrew the plans of of 1 his is mother who wanted him to tom m marry marry rry the Princess Helena and instead Insl in instead In- In sl stead ad chose for himself her younger Sister Princess Elizabeth Ellzabeth of Bavaria r engagement of the archduke and Princess Zita was announced on June 14 1911 and on October 21 they w were Jc married In the castle of Schwarzenau Schwarze- Schwarze nau nau Cardinal major domo the Their first I of the Vatican officiating ho household was established at Kol Ko- Ko l mea Galicia and t their first child Francis rancis Joseph Otto now th the heir apparent was born on November 20 1912 Their other children are the Archduchess Adelaide born January II 13 1914 Archduke Robert Cha Charles L Louis born on February 8 1915 and Archduke Felix Frederick August born orn ern on May 31 1916 I t The rhe new empress Is now 24 years gf qt age She was born In the Reale eale at Pianore in the Italian r province of Lucca on May 9 1892 being one of the twenty children of Duke Robert of Parma Two of her brothers Prince State and Xavier of or Parma Panna are now officers officers' in the Belgian Belgian Belgian Bel Bel- gian army After early training at the hands of the Marquise Della Delia Rosa she en entered entered en- en a convent at where I en-I I occasionally she acted as s organist in the chapel an and after her fathers father's death in 1908 spent some time in I Ryde Abbey Isle of Wight Wight- with her her sister Princess Adelaide a nun there Here she studied music literature Latin history and philosophy Vienna is looking forward to a brilliant court once the war and the period of mourning mourning- for Francis Joseph Jose are over