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His lover was:
1. Countess von Linden.
"The object of Maxl's infatuation happened to be the fifteen-year-old Countess von Linden, only daughter of his Excellency, Franz de Paula, Ambassador of Wurttemberg, in Vienna. 'That little Linden,' said Franz Joseph calmly after meeting her, 'is quite nice but too skinny.' Ferdinand Maximilian's romance was lyrical and platonic in the extreme. The little Linden was a great giggler and at that time the Archduke fancied himself an extraordinary wit. This made things very entertaining for both of them. At last, on one of those Shrove Tuesdays that ushered in a return to sobriety, the Archduke felt a pang. For forty days there was to be no social folderol, no waltzing, no maiden laughing at his corking jokes! He ordered a fiacre and drove to a florist's on the Ringstrasse. By means of an anonymous corsage of orange blossoms Maximilian fired a timid dart." (Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico: 19)
"The object of Maxl's infatuation happened to be the fifteen-year-old Countess von Linden, only daughter of his Excellency, Franz de Paula, Ambassador of Wurttemberg, in Vienna. 'That little Linden,' said Franz Joseph calmly after meeting her, 'is quite nice but too skinny.' Ferdinand Maximilian's romance was lyrical and platonic in the extreme. The little Linden was a great giggler and at that time the Archduke fancied himself an extraordinary wit. This made things very entertaining for both of them. At last, on one of those Shrove Tuesdays that ushered in a return to sobriety, the Archduke felt a pang. For forty days there was to be no social folderol, no waltzing, no maiden laughing at his corking jokes! He ordered a fiacre and drove to a florist's on the Ringstrasse. By means of an anonymous corsage of orange blossoms Maximilian fired a timid dart." (Phantom Crown: The Story of Maximilian & Carlota of Mexico: 19)
Carlota of Mexico (1840-1927).
Charlotte of Mexico: the Tragic Empress
"Nature formed her for an empress, she appeared in all the splendor of the morning star bright, beautiful." (Hall, 1858, p.39)
"The sum total of the statements affecting Queen Barbara's reputation is that she fell into sin as a consequence of Sigismund s neglect and licentiousness her chief accuser Aeneas Sylvius has brought forward this view in palliation of her guilt But when Sigismund burned for several other women she began also to love others for an unfaithful husband makes an unfaithful wife And elsewhere Sigismund often detected Barbara in adultery but the adulterer spared the adulteress for nothing came easier to him than to violate marriage It is however stated that when Barbara had once commenced her career of wickedness she discarded all sense of decency and it is hinted that Ernest of Austria and more plainly asserted that one John Wallinroth or Walremode was her paramour These are the only names I find mentioned According to Aeneas Sylvius and Angelus Rumplerus she stooped so low as to sin with her own servants and that so publicly that all the world knew of it Moreover she was an open scoffer at religion and an unmitigated atheist believing neither in God nor the devil heaven nor hell In consequence of the representations made to King Sigismund on his return he gave up all attempt at ignoring his wife's delinquencies and after pausing at Pressburg to confer with his nobles on the subject resolved on sending her to a wild spot in the neighbourhood of Grosswardein."(Higgins, pp. 140-142) [Ref1:217] [Ref3:105]
"Nature formed her for an empress, she appeared in all the splendor of the morning star bright, beautiful." (Hall, 1858, p.39)
"The sum total of the statements affecting Queen Barbara's reputation is that she fell into sin as a consequence of Sigismund s neglect and licentiousness her chief accuser Aeneas Sylvius has brought forward this view in palliation of her guilt But when Sigismund burned for several other women she began also to love others for an unfaithful husband makes an unfaithful wife And elsewhere Sigismund often detected Barbara in adultery but the adulterer spared the adulteress for nothing came easier to him than to violate marriage It is however stated that when Barbara had once commenced her career of wickedness she discarded all sense of decency and it is hinted that Ernest of Austria and more plainly asserted that one John Wallinroth or Walremode was her paramour These are the only names I find mentioned According to Aeneas Sylvius and Angelus Rumplerus she stooped so low as to sin with her own servants and that so publicly that all the world knew of it Moreover she was an open scoffer at religion and an unmitigated atheist believing neither in God nor the devil heaven nor hell In consequence of the representations made to King Sigismund on his return he gave up all attempt at ignoring his wife's delinquencies and after pausing at Pressburg to confer with his nobles on the subject resolved on sending her to a wild spot in the neighbourhood of Grosswardein."(Higgins, pp. 140-142) [Ref1:217] [Ref3:105]
Alfred van der Smissen (1823-1895)
Commander of the Belgian Foreign Legion in Mexico
"Rumors persist that, in 1866, Charlotte was having an affair with Belgian officer Colonel Alfred van der Smissen and that she gave birth to a son, Maxime Weygand, in Brussels on 21 January 1867. Weygand refused to confirm or deny the persistent rumor and his parentage remains uncertain. Weygand was a French military commander in both World War I and II." (Wikipedia)
" . . . I can think of one other to add: the alleged liaison, resulting in a child, between Empress Carlota of Mexico and Colonel (later General) Alfred Van Der Smissen. The child was said to have been the famed General Weygand. The story goes that Charlotte was with child when she left for Europe in summer 1866, on her ill-fated attempt to gather support for Maximilian's ill-fated throne, and that her seclusion later at Miramar after Max's death was used to mask the later stages of pregnancy and the birth of the child. Joan Haslip goes into this in some detail in _The Crown of Mexico_, Holt Rinehart, 1971." (Menzies, 2000, December 30)
Carlota's Persona or Character: "She inherited the talents of her father. Her mind was deep, and exceedingly well cultivated. . . She spoke and wrote, with great perfection, the French, Spanish, German, English, and Italian languages. . . . " (Hall: 39)
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