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Film, Video The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

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Title

  • The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

Summary

  • C.M. Mayo's first novel revolves around the little-known but true story of how Emperor of Mexico Maximilian von Hapsburg and his wife, Empress Carlota, adopted a toddler in 1865 from a reluctant American mother, who hailed from a prominent Georgetown family and who desperately tried to get her son back. Mayo, a short-story writer and essayist, discussed "The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire." The novel depicts the story of Prince Agustin de Iturbide y Green, whose mother was Alice Green, the great-grandaughter of a general during the American Revolution. She was a resident of Georgetown and grew up on a farm in Rosedale, a site near the present National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. The prince's father and Green's husband was H.H. Prince Don Angel Maria de Iturbide y Huerta, the second son of Emperor Agustin I of Mexico, who was executed in 1824. Exiled after the execution, the remainder of the Iturbide family lived in Georgetown and Philadelphia. When Maximilian and Carlota ascended the throne of Mexico in 1863, they invited the Iturbide family back to the country. The childless royal couple also offered to adopt Agustin so he could be declared an heir to the throne and perpetuate the Mexican monarchy.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Hispanic Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2009-07-20.

Headings

  • -  Biography, History

Notes

  • -  Classification: History: America.
  • -  C.M. Mayo.
  • -  Recorded on 2009-07-20.
  • -  Researchers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021688282

Online Format

  • video
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-20, 2009. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688282/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division, S. B. (2009) The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-20. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021688282/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Hispanic Division. The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -07-20, 2009. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021688282/>.