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Archduchess Louise of Austria (2 September 1870, in Salzburg – 23 March 1947, in Brussels) was by marriage Crown Princess of Saxony as the wife of the future King Frederick Augustus III.
Louise was born in Salzburg to the exiled Grand Duke of Tuscany and his second wife, Alice and grew up in a relatively informal household. At the age of seventeen she began to attract suitors but ended up choosing the crown prince of Saxony, Fredrick Augustus and they married in 1891.
Upon arriving in Dresden, she soon found herself abhorring following the strict rules of Saxon court life, which brought her into conflicts with her in-laws but Louise was not infertile and gave birth to six children in eleven years which increased her popularity among the Saxon people. Her unhappiness caused to have affairs and her father-in-law threatening to lock her up in an asylum and whilst pregnant with her sixth child she fled Dresden where she went to Lake Geneva, where her brother was meeting her. This scandal was extremely damaging to the Saxon royal family, since they were very devout Catholics.
The Saxon king dissolved the union in 1903 and a year later, she was barred from returning to Dresden. She first lived with her lover, until late 1903 when they separated and in 1907 Louise married again to the Italian musician, Enrico Toselli but this union only produced one child and they divorced in 1912. Following this, she relied on the charity of family but when Austria-Hungary collapsed in 1918 Louise lost this income and largely fell into poverty and died as a flower seller in 1947.