1906, Photo Postcard, Archduchess Blanka and her daughter Archduchess Immaculata, Royalty

Description

Vintage Photo Postcard

Picturing Archduchess Blanka and her daughter Immaculata
Erzherzogin Blanka mit Erzherzogin Immaculata

Posted in 1906 from Vienna, Austria to Loire, France
With stamp of Kaiserliche Königliche Österreichische Post
13.5 cm x 8.7 cm

Infanta Blanca of Spain (1868 – 1949) was the eldest child of Infante Carlos, Duke of Madrid, Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain and his wife Princess Margherita of Bourbon-Parma. Blanca was a member of the House of Bourbon and – according to the Carlists – an Infanta of Spain by birth. In 1889 she married Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria, Prince of Tuscany. The couple had ten children. The family left Austria after the end of the monarchy and finally settled in Barcelona. When the male line of Blanca’s family died out at the death of her uncle, Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, some of the Carlists recognized her as the legitimate heiress to the Spanish throne.

Archduchess Immaculata of Austria (German: Inmmaculata, Erzherzogin von Österreich-Toskana; 1892 – 1971) was a daughter of Archduke Leopold Salvator of Austria. She was member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg-Lorraine, an Archduchess of Austria and Princess of Tuscany by birth. After the dissolution of Austria-Hungary, she lived in exile, first in Barcelona and from the 1930s until the end of her life in Italy. In 1932, she married an Italian aristocrat, Igino Neri-Serneri. The couple remained childless.