Charlotte of Mexico- the tragic Empress

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Charlotte of Belgium, Empress Carlota of Mexico Her sad life in pictures and portraits. It's my first video, so please, don't be bad :) She was born in 1840 to king Leopold I. of Belgium and his wife, Louise-Marie of France. In 1857, she married her second cousin Archduke Maximilian of Austria, the idealistic younger brother of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria. In the early 1860s, the ambitious Napoleon III initiated the French intervention in Mexico. France, eager to turn Mexico into a ...