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Maria Theresia, Duchess of Württenberg (née Archduchess of Austria-Teschen) in 18th century costume, by Victory Angerer, c. late 1860s.

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Maria Euphrosyne of Zweibrücken (14 February 1625 – 24 October 1687) was a countess palatine, a cousin and foster-sibling of Queen Christina of Sweden, and a sister of King Charles X of Sweden. She was also, after the accession of her brother Charles X on the throne (1654), a titular Royal Princess of Sweden.

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Amethyst necklace, 1890.

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Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, 1900s.

If she hadn't died at 8, perhaphs she would have looked like this at age 10/11.

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Italian beauty, 1921.

Princess Konrad of Bavaria née Princess Maria Bona of Savoy-Genoa, shortly after her marriage.

She was the daughter-in-law of Archduchess Gisela of Austria and first cousin to Victor Emmanuel III, King of Italy.

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Archduke Albrecht of Austria, Duke of Teschen and Archduchess Hildegard (née Princess of Bavaria), atributted to Franz Schrotzberg, circa 1850s

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Archduchesses Maria Annunziata (1876-1961) and Elisabeth Amalie of Austria (1878-1960). By Josefine Swoboda.

They were the daughters of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria, brother of Emperor Franz Joseph. Maria Annunziata was Abbess of the Theresia Convent in the Hradschin, Prague; and Elisabeth Amalie Princess of Liechtenstein through her marriage to Prince Alois of Liechtenstein.

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Antonio Moro (Netherlandish, 1520-1586) Margarita de Parma, 1565 Museo del Prado Margaret of Parma was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was a Duchess of Florence and a Duchess of Parma and Piacenza by her two marriages. Margaret was brought up in Mechelen, under the supervision of two powerful Spanish and Austrian Habsburg Imperial family relatives, her great-aunt, the Archduchess Margaret of Austria, and her aunt Mary of Austria, who were successive governors of the Netherlands from 1507 to 1530 and from 1530 to 1555, respectively. In 1555, the Farnese family were acknowledged as rulers of Parma by Spain in exchange for the custody of her son. That year, she left Italy for the Netherlands, where she left her son in the care of her half-brother Philip II. Philip appointed her Governor of the Netherlands when he left in 1559 for Spain. As governor, Margaret faced the rising storm of discontent against the Inquisition and Spanish despotism.