Archduchess Gisela of Austria - Widowhood & Death

Widowhood & Death

Gisela and her husband celebrated their golden wedding anniversary in 1923. Her husband died in 1930 and Gisela only survived him by two years and died aged 76 in Munich on 27 July 1932 and is buried next to Prince Leopold at the Colombarium in the St.Michaelskirche, Munich.

Among her notable relatives was her uncle, Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico, who was her father's brother.

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