Charles and Zita left for exile in Switzerland and later Madeira, where Charles died in 1922.

Zita in later years recalled that after her engagement she had expressed to Charles her worries about the fate of the Austrian Empire and the challenges of the monarchy.

" I remember the dear plump figure of Prince Lobkowitz going up to my husband ," Zita later recounted, " and, with tears in his eyes, making the sign of the cross on Charles's forehead.

Among the royal guests were Crown Prince Olav ( later King Olav V ) and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, Grand Duchess Charlotte and Prince Felix of Luxembourg, King Peter II of Yugoslavia, King George II of Greece, Empress Zita of Austria and her daughters, as well as Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, her daughter, Princess Juliana ( later Queen Juliana ), and granddaughters, Princesses Beatrix ( later Queen Beatrix ) and Margriet.

* Moondog Jr., a Belgian musical band later known as Zita Swoon

He left Deus in 1996, concentrating on his own band Zita Swoon ( previously A Beatband, and then later known as Moondog Jr .) which he founded in 1991 with drummer Aarich Jespers.

Zita and her siblings were raised to speak Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and English She recalled, " We grew up internationally.

The two daughters of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria were Zita ’ s first cousins and Charles ’ half-aunts.

Charles was under pressure to marry ( Franz Ferdinand, his uncle and first-in-line, had married morganatically, and his children were excluded from the throne ) and Zita had a suitably royal genealogy.

Charles and Zita were married at the Schwarzau castle on 21 October 1911.

Charles and Zita were crowned in Budapest on 30 December 1916.

He called Zita several times a day whenever they were separated.

The children were being looked after at Wartegg Castle in Switzerland by Charles's step-grandmother Maria Theresa, although Zita managed to see them in Zurich when her son Robert needed an operation for appendicitis.

Several of the children and staff were also ill, and Zita ( at the time eight months pregnant ) helped nurse them all.

They were then escorted to the Pardo Palace in Madrid, where shortly after her arrival Zita gave birth to a posthumous child, Archduchess Elisabeth.

In a series of interviews with the Viennese tabloid newspaper Kronen Zeitung, Zita expressed her belief that the deaths of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling, in 1889, were not a double suicide, but rather murder by French or Austrian agents.

Zita was in the habit of spending several months each year in the diocese of Le Mans at St. Cecilia's Abbey, Solesmes, where three of her sisters were nuns.

Among the leaders were Zita Urbonaitė and Diana Čepelienė ( who took third place in GC ) in the Women's Challenge that summer.

Through his mother Zita of Bourbon-Parma ( a great-granddaughter of Maria Teresa of Savoy, Duchess of Lucca and Parma, who was a daughter of Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia, who in turn was a daughter of Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d ' Este and Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este, Duchess and Duke of Breisgau and Modena ), Robert was a descendant of Ercole III d ' Este, and the blood of last Este dukes thus joined again with the name Austria-Este.

It was during one of these visits that Charles and Zita became reacquainted.

With the Nazi invasion of Belgium on 10 May 1940, Zita and her family became war refugees.

Saint Zita was born in Tuscany in the village of Monsagrati, not far from Lucca where, at the age of 12, she became a servant in the Fatinelli household.

In the close vicinity of Schwarzau castle was the Villa Wartholz, residence of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Zita ’ s maternal aunt.

* 1272 – Zita, Italian saint ( b. 1212 )

* 1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.

* 1892 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma ( d. 1989 )

* 2012 – Zita Kabátová, Czech actress ( b. 1913 )

* 2008 – Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian cyclist ( b. 1973 )

* 1973 – Zita Urbonaitė, Lithuanian cyclist ( d. 2008 )

* May 9 – Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria-Hungary ( d. 1989 )

** Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Wife of Emperor Charles I, last Empress of Austria ( b. 1892 )

* Zita, patron saint of maids and domestic servants ( d. 1272 )

The eldest son of Charles I, the last Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, and his wife, Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Otto was born as third in line to the thrones, as His Imperial and Royal Highness Archduke and Prince Imperial Otto of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia.

Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma ( Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese ; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989 ) was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria.

Born as the seventeenth child of the dispossessed Robert I, Duke of Parma and his second wife Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugal, Zita married the then Archduke Charles of Austria in 1911.

After her husband's death, Zita and her son Otto served as the symbols of unity for the exiled dynasty.

Asteroid 689 Zita is named in her honour.

Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma was born at the Villa Pianore in the Italian Province of Lucca, 9 May 1892.

The unusual name Zita was given her after a popular Italian Saint who had lived in Tuscany in the 13th century.

Zita was the 17th child among Duke Robert's 24 children.

It was mainly in these two residences that Zita spent her formative years.

At the age of ten, Zita was sent to a boarding school at Zanberg in Upper Bavaria, where there was a strict regime of study and religious instruction.

Her maternal grandmother sent Zita and her sister Franziska to a convent on the Isle of Wight to complete her education.

Zita and Franziska personally distributed food, clothing, and medicines to the needy in Pianore.