Marriage
On 25 November 1873 in Cannes, Maria Immacolata married Prince Henry of Bourbon-Parma, Count of Bardi, son of Charles III, Duke of Parma and his wife Princess Louise Marie Thérèse of France. Henry's older brother Robert had married Maria Immacolata's older sister Maria Pia in 1869.
After the wedding Henry and Maria Immacolata went to Egypt for their honeymoon. There she became sick with a fever. The couple decided to return home, and on 30 March 1874 they disembarked at Marseilles.
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