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Charlotte of Belgium (French: Marie Charlotte Amélie Augustine Victoire Clémentine Léopoldine; 7 June 1840 – 19 January 1927), known by the Spanish version of her name, Carlota, was by birth a princess of Belgium and member of the House of Wettin in the branch of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (as such she was also styled Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony).
Chapultepec Castle (Spanish: Castillo de Chapultepec) is located on top of Chapultepec Hill in Mexico City's Chapultepec park. The name Chapultepec is the Nahuatl word chapoltepēc which means "on the hill of the grasshopper". It is located at the entrance to Chapultepec park, at a height of 2,325 metres (7,628 ft) above sea level. [ 1 ]
Carlota of Mexico by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, portrait used on the book cover of various editions.. The novel is written in two sequences, the first is a monologue by Empress Carlota while she was locked up in the Bouchout Castle in Belgium, sixty years after the death of Maximilian, shot at Cerro de las Campanas, Querétaro, on June 19, 1867, as she fell into madness after his death.
The second Imperial Crown of Mexico, created during the Second Mexican Empire for Emperor Maximilian I (his consort was Charlotte of Belgium, known as Empress Carlota), who reigned from 1864 to 1867, is better documented. The original crown was destroyed during the ensuing fighting and victory of the Mexican republic, but replicas remain on ...
The New Virginia Colony was a colonization plan to resettle ex- Confederates in central Mexico after the American Civil War. The largest settlement was Carlota, named for Emperor Maximilian's wife Charlotte of Belgium and located near Córdoba, Veracruz; by early 1866, it was described as "thriving" and had a population of almost 500. [1]
The new emperor of Mexico landed at Veracruz on 29 May 1864, [86] and received a sparse reception from the townspeople due to a yellow fever outbreak. [87] The Imperial couple's arrival at the capital was more celebrated, with fireworks and hundreds of triumphant arches. [88] Maximilian and Carlota were crowned at the Mexico City Metropolitan ...
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English: Empress Carlota of Mexico (1840-1927) Date: after 1867. 2016-04-04 for upload: Medium: Photographie positive sur papier albuminé: References ...