![New wife, new happiness: in 1907 Leopold married Maria Ritter, another former prostitute.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/titel-leopold-ritter-300x225.jpg)
Leopold and the women
Leopold Wölfling remarried, and his bride was once again a lady with a dubious reputation. And his naturalisation became problematic. His sister Louise, now also living in Switzerland, was presented with an opportunity to take revenge on the royal house of Saxony...
![‘A new pot-boiler from Leopold Wölfling’, quipped the Illustrierte Kronen Zeitung newspaper in October 1907.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/herzensroman-291x300.jpg)
![Notice from the Neue Zürcher Nachrichten of 28 September 1907.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zeitung-leopold-zweite-hochzeit-300x153.jpg)
![Leopold Wölfling found a new home in rural Regensdorf. But it came with some background noise...](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/regensdorf-300x187.jpg)
![From archduke to notorious womaniser? Questions were raised about Leopold Wölfling’s moral conduct and lifestyle choices.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/leopold-2-181x300.jpg)
![Some newspapers, such as the Graubündner General-Anzeiger, were scathing about Leopold’s search for a new home.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/zeitung-spott-204x300.jpg)
An unexpected visit for Louise
![Wartegg Castle in Rorschacherberg: Louise lived here after the birth of Pia Monica.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/schloss-wartegg-300x201.jpg)
![Louise with two of her older sons, 1890s.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/luise-und-kinder-247x300.jpg)
![Portrait of Louise’s uncle, Robert of Bourbon-Parma.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/robert-bourbon-von-parma-225x300.jpg)
![A congratulatory card for her 35th birthday: Louise was still a popular figure in Saxony.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/geburtstag-luise-228x300.jpg)
Louise and Leopold
In 1902, Crown Princess Louise and Archduke Leopold of Austria-Tuscany fled to Switzerland. The siblings sought to escape from their straitjacketed life in the bosom of the Habsburg family. They succeeded, but their lives became a scandal-plagued descent into a normal middle-class existence, and ultimately ended in poverty and loneliness.
Part 1: Escape to Switzerland
Part 2: The scandal becomes public knowledge
Part 3: The Archduke becomes a Swiss citizen
Part 4: Leopold and the women
Part 5: Regensdorf versus the Archduke
Read the detailed account of Louise and Leopold’s journey in the book of the same name, by Michael van Orsouw. It is published by Hier und Jetzt.