The Marriage of Blessed Karl and Princess Zita

"The bride-elect is only 19 and very pretty, and she is the 12th child in a family of 20 brothers and sisters!"

The Marriage of Blessed Karl and Princess Zita

Editor’s note: today is the feast day of our patron, Blessed Emperor Karl. When Pope St. John Paul II beatified Emperor Karl (Karol Wojtyła’s own namesake, in fact), he chose October 21st as his feast day, which is the anniversary of Karl and Zita’s wedding. Here we publish an excerpt from the biography written by our contributing editor, Charles Coulombe, with the kind permission from TAN Books.

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