Carlota tried to rule Mexico with her husband Maximilian I before their empire fell, breaking her heart and her mind. Empress Carlota, painted in 1865 by Albert Gräfle, took a very active interest in ...

The life of Carlota of Belgium, wife of Maximilian of Habsburg, Mexico's last emperor, wasn't exactly a fairy tale, even though she was born and lived in castles and her father was the King of the ...

In 1869, artist Édouard Manet finished his painting of The Execution of Emperor Maximilian, depicting the death, by firing squad, of Maximilian and two of his generals in 1867, in Querétaro, Mexico.

On the 150th anniversary of the installation of Austria’s Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian von Habsburg as emperor of Mexico , McAllen (I Would Rather Sleep in Texas) offers an authoritative, detailed, ...