Duchess Maria

Duchess Maria may refer to:

  • Duchess Maria Christina of Teschen (1742–1798), Archduchess of Austria
  • Duchess Maria Dorothea of Württemberg (1797–1855), daughter of Duke Louis of Württemberg and Princess Henriette of Nassau-Weilburg
  • Duchess Maria Josepha of Bavaria (1857–1943), Infanta of Portugal
  • Duchess Maria Nikolaievna of Leuchtenberg (1819–1876), President of the Imperial Academy of Arts
  • Duchess Maria of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736–1807), member of the British Royal Family
  • Duchess Maria Sophie of Bavaria (1841–1925), last Queen consort of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies

Famous quotes containing the words duchess and/or maria:

    “That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall,
    Looking as if she were alive. I call”
    —Robert Browning (1812–1889)

    “He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there’s another dog.”
    —Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926)