Exile and Death
After her husband was forced from kingship in the extremely turbulent events of the Revolution of 1848, the royal family fled to England. Louis Philippe died two years later. After the death of her husband, Maria Amalia continued to live in England where she attended daily Mass and was well known to Queen Victoria. Queen Maria Amalia died on 24 March 1866. After her death, the dress she had kept since 1848 when her husband had left France was put on her, according to her last wishes.
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Famous quotes containing the words exile and/or death:
“Ha, banishment? Be merciful, say “death”;
For exile hath more terror in his look,
Much more than death. Do not say “banishment!””
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
—Boris Pasternak (1890–1960)