Princess Maria Theresa of Savoy was born at the Royal Palace in Turin during the reign of her grandfather Charles Emmanuel III of Sardinia. The daughter of the heir apparent and his wife, Victor Amadeus and Maria Antonia of Spain, she was the couple's fifth daughter and eleventh children. She was raised with her sister Princess Maria Giuseppina who was three years her senior and would join her later as a member of the royal family of France.
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