Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria, Duke of Bavaria, Franconia and in Swabia, Count Palatine by the Rhine, was the last heir apparent to the Bavarian throne. During the first half of World War I, he c
Rupprecht in uniform prior to World War I
Portrait of Rupprecht as a child by Franz von Lenbach c. 1874
Prince Rupprecht and his second wife, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg
Rupprecht with six of his children
Maria Theresa Henriette Dorothea of Austria-Este was the last Queen of Bavaria. She was the only child of Archduke Ferdinand Karl Viktor of Austria-Este and Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria.
Rupprecht, Crown Prince of Bavaria
…Expeditionary Force. Rupprecht was born in Munich, the eldest of the thirteen children of Prince Ludwig (later King of Bavaria as Ludwig III) and of Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, a niece of Duke Francis V of Modena. He was a member of the lineage of both Louis XIV of France and William the Conqueror. As a direct descendant of…
Queen Maria Theresa c. 1910–15
Princess Maria Theresa of Bavaria, future Queen of Bavaria, 1870s
Queen Maria Theresa, King Ludwig III and their son crown prince Rupprecht