![Leopold Wölfling became a citizen of Regensdorf in 1908. Portrait dating from 1930.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/erzherzog-300x225.jpg)
Regensdorf versus the Archduke
The former Archduke Leopold was still a citizen of Regensdorf, but spent years embroiled in arguments with the Regensdorf municipality, while Louise remarried, and fled back to Switzerland when her marriage became rocky.
![He won Louise’s heart: Enrico Toselli, musically talented and elegantly dressed. Portrait, around 1910.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/toselli-portrat-222x300.jpg)
Click to hear the Toselli Serenade. YouTube
![Louise marries musician Enrico Toselli, secretly in London. Illustration from Das interessante Blatt magazine, 3 October 1907.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hochzeit-luise-300x189.jpg)
![Happily married: Louise and Enrico Toselli.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/hochzeit-luise-und-enrice-218x300.jpg)
A new wife, from the lower levels of society – yet again…
![Regensdorf from the air, around 1930.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/regensdorf-1-300x209.jpg)
![Financially, things went downhill for Leopold Wölfling. He tried his hand as an insurance salesman, stage actor and even as a grocer. He didn’t earn much from these ventures, and he was something of a laughing stock within the community.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/leopold-laden-300x190.jpg)
![Adrien Lachenal, lawyer and ex-Federal Councillor from Geneva: He was Louise and Leopold’s legal adviser in Switzerland.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/lachenal-300x294.jpg)
![Louise and Enrico had an on-off relationship.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/luise-und-enrico-240x300.jpg)
![Louise spent the final decades of her life in Belgium, alone and impoverished.](https://blog.nationalmuseum.ch/app/uploads/luise-in-belgien-201x300.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.