. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . res of money to beau-tify and adorn his capital, the city of Munich, with gal-leries of paintings and statuary, to attract the admirationof aU visitors. Her cousin is King Otho of Greece. Hergrandfather, Maximilian Joseph, was the first King of Ba-varia when Napoleon I. erected it into a kingdom in King gave his daughter in marriage to Prince EugeneBeauharnais, the son of the Empress Josephine,
. Imperial courts of France, England, Russia, Prussia, Sardinia, and Austria. Richly illustrated with portraits of imperial sovereigns and their cabinet ministers' with biographical sketches . res of money to beau-tify and adorn his capital, the city of Munich, with gal-leries of paintings and statuary, to attract the admirationof aU visitors. Her cousin is King Otho of Greece. Hergrandfather, Maximilian Joseph, was the first King of Ba-varia when Napoleon I. erected it into a kingdom in King gave his daughter in marriage to Prince EugeneBeauharnais, the son of the Empress Josephine, of imperialrenown. Hence the name of the present Empress of Aus-tria is Elizabeth Amelia Eugenie, daughter of the Duke ofBavaria, and a descendant of the Empress Josephine. Shewas born in Munich, and educated in aU the accomphsh-ments of royalty as one of the Kings daughters. She wasmarried to the Emperor Francis Joseph, April 24, is the mother of three children, — Sophia, a daughter,born in 1855; Gisela, in 185G; and a son, Rudolph, in1858. Sophia died at Buda, in 1857, during an imperialjourney. The portrait forms a match-print to that of theEmperor, both taken at THE EMPRESS MARIA THERESA. Maria Theresa was born at Vienna in 1717. She wasthe eldest daughter of Charles VI., Emperor of Austria,who died in 1740. The succession of Maria Theresa tothe hereditary dominion of the House of Hapsburg hadbeen guaranteed by the principal states of Europe; but,on her fathers death, she found herself assailed by thekings of Prussia, France, Spain, and Sardinia, and the elec-tors of Bavaria and Saxony. Each of these princes laidclaim to some part of the Austrian territory; and MariaTheresa, at the age of twenty-three, was called on to makehead against the armies of all her neighbors, except theTurkish Sultan, who alone acted towards her with fairnessand good faith. Maria Theresa had been married in 1737,to Francis of Louvain, Grand Duke of Tuscany, but hewas a prince o
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