Maria Theresa was only 23 years old when she ascended to the Austrian throne in 1740. Though the official ruler was actually her husband, Francis I, she governed the Habsburg monarchy single-handedly.

This portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria was painted between 1745 and 1750 when she was in her 30s and in her early years as the ruler of the Austrian empire. Her most famous child, Maria Antonia ...

Ahead of International Women’s Day and on the occasion of the release of her book, Le Pouvoir au féminin, Marie-Thérèse d’Autriche l’impératrice-reine about Maria Theresa of Austria, Elisabeth ...

Maria Amalia, Archduchess of Austria and Duchess of Parma, (1746-1804) was the daughter of Maria Theresia of Austria – Queen of Bohemia and Holy Roman Empress by marriage – and Emperor Francis Stephen ...

In late October, the emperor Charles VI had died without a male heir, leaving the chaotic jumble of territories that made up the Habsburg patrimony to his 23-year-old daughter, Maria Theresa.