A sculpture of Empress Maria Theresa made out of white Carrara marble used to decorate the Danube embankment. The monument by local artist Ján Fadrus was unveiled in 1897. Born in Bratislava ...

Maria Theresa Empress by Richard Bassett (Yale University Press, £25) is published 25 February. Read More. Features. The scintillating histories of the Mitford sisters, as Outrageous is released. We ...

MARIA THERESA'S DESCENDANTS. Share full article. June 2 ... The fuss about the Empress Maria Theresa which the Emperor of Austria has been making is due to the fact that the Crown Prince's only ...

Bassett is very fond of Maria Theresa. We constantly hear of the Empress’s “poise and dignity”, or her “vigour and insight”. Enemies such as Frederick II, or the gout-ridden Charles VII ...

But Maria Theresa’s daughters received no practical instruction in politics, and were advised by the empress herself never to meddle in state affairs. Once on their respective thrones, the sisters ...

Archduchess Marie Antoinette, born in 1755, was the child of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and the powerful Habsburg Empress Maria Theresa, per History. What happened to the Habsburgs?

A huge monument to Empress Maria Theresa stands at the center of the square, dating from the late 19th century. The prominent neo-baroque sculptor Kaspar von Zumbusch spent more than a decade ...