This is the AUDIO version of my blog post on Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria's tiara. Most of the pictures in that post are in this video, but not all of them.

Chapters
0:00 The Tiara
2:47 Meet Maria Anna & Her Parents
7:03 Growing Up Royal
9:48 The Sophie Chotek Scandal
12:21 The Hofball: Imperial Vienna's BFD
18:03 Put a Ring on It
20:57 Meet Elias
23:11 My Big Fat Habsburg Wedding
24:56 Married Life
29:55 Dark Clouds
33:31 A House Divided
37:25 Elias and Maria Anna Post-War
44:33 Who Inherited This Tiara?

Want to see the original post? It's at https://girlinthetiara.com/archduches...

Need a shorter fix? Check out the 10-minute version here:    • Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria's T...  

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On November 13, 2018, Sotheby's auctioned off over 100 jewels from the Bourbon-Parma family. One diamond tiara had been a wedding present from Emperor Franz Josef of Austria to his great-niece, Archduchess Maria Anna. It sold for 250,000 CHF to a buyer who was not me.

The star of the show that night was Marie Antoinette’s pearl and diamond pendant, which sold for a mind-boggling 36,427,000 CHF. But I found myself wondering more about Maria Anna. Who was she? Why hadn’t I seen any pictures of her if she had such a fantastic jewel collection at her disposal?

So I did what any self-respecting royal researcher would do. I told everyone else to get lost until I had an answer.

Read the rest of the post here: https://girlinthetiara.com/archduches...


ABOUT THE GIRL IN THE TIARA
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I tell stories about tiaras and the fascinating royal women who wore them. Join me as I follow these tiaras across generations and countries, through wars and revolutions and—sometimes—into darkness and disappearance and destruction.

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