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This is "the last prince":

Agustín de Iturbide y Green (1863-1925), carte-de-visite circa 1865.

From: Museo Nacional de Historia, Chapultepec Castle, Mexico City.
CONACULTA-INAH-MEX.

Reproduction authorized for this website, www.cmmayo.com. by the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia

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Rosedale
The historic Washington D.C. estate in the heights above Georgetown (on Newark Ave, very near today's Wisconsin Ave NW) where the prince's American mother, Alice Green, lived as a young girl, and where she and Angel de Iturbide, second son of the Emperor Iturbide, were married in 1855. See a larger photo and read more...







Chapultepec Castle
During the Second Empire, this served as Maximilian's Imperial Residence. At that time, it was on the outskirts of Mexico City.

Miramar Castle
(Pictured right) The castle Maximilian, then an Archduke of Austria, built in Trieste. Photos taken during my visit in January 2003.

Río Frío
A fort and small village in the mountains on the highway between Mexico City and Puebla. The scene of many a crime, including the murder of Baron Frédéric Victor d'Huart in March 1866. From my visit circa 2004.

Map of Mexico by Juan Nepomuceno Almonte, circa 1853
This map is from the book by General Almonte, Guia de forasteros, which is mentioned in the novel.

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