Adelaide of Austria
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Adelaide of Austria was Queen of Sardinia by marriage to Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia, future King of Italy, from 1849 until 1855 when she died as a result of gastroenteritis. She was the mother of
1848 portrait
Archduchess Adelaide as queen consort
Adelaide with her daughter Maria Pia, c. 1850–1855
Queen Adelaide with her husband and six older children, ca. 1854
Maria Pia of Savoy
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Dona Maria Pia was by birth an Italian princess of the House of Savoy and by marriage Queen of Portugal as the wife of King Luís I of Portugal. On the day of her baptism, Pope Pius IX, her godfather,
Formal portrait, 1903
Portrait of Maria Pia, by Luigi Gandolfi (1863)
Portrait of Maria Pia, by Carolus Duran (1880), Palace of Ajuda