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Archduke of Austria, Prince Royal of Hungary and Bohemia, and Prince of Tuscany, called Carlos Pío de Habsburgo-Lorena y de Borbón in Spain, who was a member of the Tuscan branch of the Imperial House of Habsburg and a Carlist claimant to the throne of Spain under the assumed name of "Carlos VIII". He was the tenth and youngest child of Archduke Leopold Salvator, Prince of Tuscany and Infanta Blanca of Spain. On 8 May 1938 in Vienna, Karl married Christa Satzger de Bálványos (1914–2001), daughter of Geza Satzger de Bálványos and of his wife Maria Alexandrina Friedmann. The marriage was morganatic, and the two daughters born to it had no dynastic rights of succession. Christa left Karl in 1949. In December 1950, they received a civil divorce in Reno, Nevada. His full name is Karl Pius Maria Adelgonde Blanka Leopold Ignaz Raphael Michael Salvator Kyrill Angelus Barbara. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage on 24 December 1953 in Barcelona, Spain. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less