Austrian Empress Zita of Bourbon-Parma, wife of the late ex-Emperor Karl I and the last Empress of Austria, descends stone steps in the gardens of the Villa Annunciata Hotel (Today the CCAS Holiday Apartment at Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France), adjacent to the Monastery of the Annunciation (2135 Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France). A traditional brick-lined well in the garden. Stone steps in a lush garden. Rose bushes and other plants growing. Trellis with vines. A road in Menton, hills are seen in the background. Distant view of Villa Annunciata Hotel, camera pans to view of the Monastery of the Annunciation and its chapel. Sign hanging beside the arch reads “Monastère” (“Monastery” in English).
Exiled members of the Habsburg Dynasty and their followers in Menton, France. Count Heinrich von Degenfeld, a loyal aristocratic follower of the Habsburg household, walks his dogs in the Hotel Villa Annunciata’s Garden (Today the CCAS Holiday Apartment at Cor André Tardieu, 06500 Menton, France) View of Monastery of the Annunciation in the background. Count von Degenfeld reads a newspaper inside the villa. Count von Degenfeld poses on the side of the road leading to the Monastery of the Annunciation in Menton. Count von Degenfeld smiles while sitting on a garden bench. The count descends from stone stairs with his dogs. Count von Degenfeld strolls in the garden.