 Zita of Bourbon @-@ Parma ( Zita Maria delle Grazie Adelgonda Micaela Raffaela Gabriella Giuseppina Antonia Luisa Agnese ; 9 May 1892 – 14 March 1989 ) was the wife of Emperor Charles of Austria . As such , she was the last Empress of Austria , Queen of Hungary , and Queen of Bohemia . Born as the seventeenth child of the dispossessed Duke of Parma , she married Charles in 1911 and gave birth to a son , Otto , in 1912 . She and her family were forced to abdicate in 1918 . After the fall of the Austrian Empire , she lived in exile in Bavaria