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Principessa Margherita Isabella di Savoia-Aosta
(1930–2022)

Other names: Margherita Isabella Maria Vittoria Emanuella Elena Gennara

Biographical

Dame of Honour and Devotion of the Order of Malta [Vatican]
Dame of the Order of the Starry Cross [Austria]

Margherita studied at the Catholic Institute, the École du Louvre, where she obtained a diploma in Egyptology, and at the Sorbonne. During the Second World War, Margherita was deported to Austria by the Nazis, along with her sister and mother. She was thirteen years old at the time. The family was freed in 1945, and after the monarchy was abolished, they went into exile.

Place of birth: Capodimonte, Naples
Place of marriage: Bourg-en-Bresse
Place of death: Basel

Daughter of Amedeo di Savoia-Aosta and Princesse Anne de France (Bourbon-Orléans). She married Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este (Habsburg), in 1953, and had issue.

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