#archduchess isabelle duchess of teschen

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Royals Gathering in Gmunden, Austria. This photo was probably taken during the engagement/wedding of Prince Maximilian of Baden and Princess Marie Louise of Hanover in 1900, as Prince Christian of Hanover was still alive.

Close-up photo:

Back row: Princess Alexandra of Hanover, Princess Margaret of Hesse-Kassel née Prussia, Princess Marie Louise of Hanover, Prince Frederick of Anhalt, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria-Teschen, Archduchess Isabella Duchess of Teschen, Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria-Teschen, Hereditary Prince George William of Hanover and Prince Christian of Hanover.

Front row: Prince Johann of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, Crown Prince Constantine of Greece, Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, Marie Duchess of Anhalt née Baden, Crown Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover and Prince Frederick Charles of Hesse-Kassel.

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Princess Isabella of Parma

The princess spent most of her time in the Viennese court, not with her husband, but with his sister, Archduchess Maria Christina, who later became, by marriage, Duchess of Saxony-Teschen. The two women seemed to have a romantic lesbian affair.

During the few years Isabella and Christina knew each other, they exchanged 200 letters and "billets" while living at the same court. They spent so much time together that they earned the comparison with Orpheus and Eurydice.

Isabel and Maria were united not only by a shared interest in music and art but also by a deep mutual love. Every day they wrote long letters to each other in which they revealed their feelings of love. While the letters of Maria Christina showed her happy nature, Isabel's feelings were mixed and, in her expressions of affection, showed a certain pessimism, reflecting her growing obsession with death. 

In one such letter, Isabella wrote: " I am writing you again, cruel sister, though I have only just left you. I cannot bear waiting to know my fate, and to learn whether you consider me a person worthy of your love, or whether you would like to throw me into the river.... I can think of nothing but that I am deeply in love. If I only knew why this is so, for you are so without mercy that one should not love you, but I cannot help myself. ". 

In a different letter she wrote: "I am told that the day begins with God. I, however, begin the day by thinking of the object of my love, for I think of her incessantly."

Only the letters of Isabella have been preserved; those of Maria Christina were destroyed after her death.

*Some of these are more rumour that fact so please take with a grain of salt and with the story given.*