I am schizophrenic. I thank God I live in a time of good medicine and talk therapy. I am also thankful for my loving husband who has stayed by my side.

So, what I'm hearing is that she wasn't crazy because she WAS actually being poisoned or drugged, she knew it, and she didn't trust anyone so she isolated herself.

This is making me think that she probably had schizophrenia. Poor girl.

In such a mental breakdown often the internal suffering that such a personal goes through is far worse than any external suffering that they may exhibit.

She drank the water from the fountains BECAUSE she knew It wasn't poisoned. The inbreeding was a factor as well as the precarious situation of the couple in a foreign land they knew nothing about and her responsibility for the situation (she was the one who wanted, her husband was more dubious) caused probably her mental breakdown but It is possible that , in a country where one couldn't really distinguish foe from friend she really could have been poisoned. Ultimately the responsibility lies with Napoleon III , a wastrel who used them to enact his childish colonial dreams and , when they didn't turned as glorioso as he imaginei left the couple to their own devices.

There’s nothing odd about Charlotte being called Carlota in Mexico Carlota is simply Spanish for “Charlotte.”

oh thank god its a real person talking! I like real storytelling the king handed down by generations of story tellers not AI

The poor woman !.To be mentally ill in an era where they only put you away or kept you prisoner ! What happened to the two adopted kids?! She left with them and that is the last they were mentioned .!

Sad..I'm nuts and inherited it from my grandmother that was more nuts..thank God for modern medicine. I can't imagine being married to someone I didn't love..how lonely

I’m not surprised at her mental state due to her stages in a sad life 😢

I believe that Empress Carlota DID eventually find out that her husband Maximilian had died. Decades later, her niece Princess Stephanie of Belgium married the Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary (yes, Emperor Franz-Josef and Empress Elisabeth's ['Sisi'] only son).It wasn't a happy union and they were somewhat estranged after their birth of their only child a daughter who, thanks the annoying Salic Law, wasn't eligible to inherit the imperial throne. Anyway, Crown Prince Rudolf at age 30 had engaged in a torrid fling with the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Von Vetsera then suddenly both were found dead in his hunting lodge of Mayerling- of an evident murder-suicide in 1889! Anyway, his widow the Crown Princess Stephanie went back to Belgium not to long after this and visited her aunt. Virtually the first thing the Empress Carlota said to her stunned niece was 'They killed HIM, too!' Oh, and it's likely true that her last word was 'Mexico' because her castle in Belgium was surrounded by a moat so they'd have to cross it in a rowboat to have picnics in the surrounding park. Anyway, before she'd get into the rowboat, she'd invariably beam 'Today we sail to Mexico!'

Schizophrenia with the paranoia and hallucinations both visual and auditory, and grandiose schemes of people needing them to solve something

Charlotte's intuition probably told her she was being poisoned. She knew something wasn't right. Drug-induced schizophrenia. From the American Journal of Psychiatry: "A bromide psychosis is one which starts during bromide intoxication and clears up fairly soon-usually several weeks, though sometimes longer-after discontinuance of the drug. Four varieties of bromide psychosis are known." The article goes on to explain the effects of bromide poisoning. I can't put a link in a KZfaq comment, but it's easy to find the article.

I don't know if the young man who narrated this fine script so well is the person who wrote it and edited the video (the subtlety of the music background is beautifully done), but BRAVO to all three elements!!! Very much enjoyed this biography.

Good grief, The Royal Families of Europe were absolutely hatstand!

In those days little was understood about treating the mentally ill and they were often badly treated. Even royalty, as this case shows.

I hope science will be able to use stem cell therapy to cure mental health issues in the future. I have depression and am also bipolar. Medicine helps but it doesn’t make you normal, it just gets rid of the worst symptoms.

she doesn't seem crazy at all. She seemed like a woman who was determined to help her family in a world of geopolitics and intrigue where poisoning is the norm.

Mental illness is just so awful 😢 😮😢

You are a good storyteller!!!

Very good video which clearly explains a relatively obscure period of history . Victoria had much to answer for her matchmaking and the consequent insanity within the Royal families of Europe , not forgetting the pervasive haemophilia .

Thank you for the post! ✌🏼😊

There is a very good biography of this tragic figure by Prince Michael of Greece, a relative of the British Royal Family ( as they all are nowadays) it is called Empress of Farewells

To be fair, if one of us had the opportunity... Come on, we all would steal the goblet and use it to drink something! How epic! 😄

Thank you for this. And for the sympathy in telling of this sad and tragic woman's story.

Charlotte seemed doomed to unhappiness from her childhood. The loss of her mother and being isolated from her family may have started her problems. Maximilian’s treatment of her would have done her more harm. The Austria royal family would not been particularly nurturing apart from Empress Sophie, Elizabeth “Sisi” was not actually a nice person and may have seen the beautiful young girl as a rival. Charlotte and Maximilian were foolish to have accepted Emperor Napoleon offer and even more foolish not to given up their throne when they still could. This is an extremely informative video and l found it fascinating. Thank for this

It’s a sad story. But it’s strange that this version treats her drinking water from a cup as one of her more bizarre behaviors. That doesn’t seem especially crazy.

How unfortunately is was for poor Charlotte of Mexico that she suffered from a serious mental health condition at a time when there were no effective treatments or medications for it.😢

The poor woman. How could they not know her mind wasn't right? It's in her eyes, that first adult portrait you started the video with, it's in her eyes. The artist captured it. ✌️🌷😊

She didn’t act like a schizophrenic nor the timing of her breakdown point to schizophrenia.

Poor Lady

Very nice piece

Thanks!

Do we know what happened to the boys they adopted?

Royal love story destroyed. She had good reason to think she was being poisoned, she wasn't a total fool. Poison has, to this day, been a favorite tool for elimination. Empress Carlotta was brave. She sailed to & from Mexico, journeyed across Europe pleading her cause. Very courageous to cross ocean, travel in horse drawn carriages. Only to be turned away from her French sponsor, fearing for her life, abused from childhood. Well done, so glad hit the notification bell. No one is really safe in Mexico, President Taft took 3k soldiers when he went to Mexico in 1900. Do you think he felt safe?

This narrator makes my heart race and my jaw drop!

Damn, I guess those royals really were something. Lol. Great video. 👍

Consumption. It wiped out millions in new england and rhe northeast in rhe 19th century. We always think of The Black Death when we think of diseases that devastated humanity . But Turburculosis has to be a slow burn close second if we discount influenza which still kills in large numbers but seems to lack the certainty of death or the horror of the other two. Even if in the early 1900s it was almost as deadly.

She insisted upon taking her meals with the Pope. Pius IX was in the same position as her husband. After being deposed by the Revolution of 1848, Napoleon III offered to restore him to power by military force. A French garrison of about 50,000 troops maintained the Pope in government, however, like Maximilian, the Pope was only a puppet ruler. Napoleon III installed a French Governor-General who stripped the States of the Church bare. Finally, on the outbreak of the war with Prussia, Napoleon III withdrew his garrison - King Victor Emanuel II then annexed Rome and Lazio in 1870 and moved his capital to Rome.

What movie or seriesare those clips from? I would love to know, thank you!

The picture around 7:50 is haunting

There is a brew in Mexico called toloache made from jimson weed, notorious for making people crazy, could it be what she was given?

She was named for her father's first wife, who died in childbirth.

I always had heard that Carlota had adopted a Mexican boy . And ALL of Mexico DID NOT hate her ,there were Mexicans fighting on the side of the French . A lot of the French stayed and married Mexican women there are lots of French descendants living in Mexico.

But what happened to the two adopted boys??

This is not researched well. It was not Napoleon III whose idea it was for Maximilian to be emperor. It was a Mexican plan. Mexicans in Paris caught the ear of Empress Eugènie of France, who was part of the Spanish nobility, as well as a descendant of the Aztec emperor Moctezuma II.

Historically, not many of these royal families in various countries, seem to end well at all, whether romantically or politically. In-breeding, in-fighting, back stabbing, jealousy, religion and arrogance seems to be the formula for a royal fall- or worse. Be grateful. It must be an awful life. (Btw, Maximilian was a real jerk. Got his comeuppance. IMO)

Many Mexican did support the Mexican Empire. Even the city of Puebla was saddened by the loss of the battle by the French and Mexican Imperial forces. So much so that one of Juarez’s generals wanted to wipe it out. Mexico City also did not give up easily. The only reason the empire crumbled was because of their neighbors to the north 🇺🇸.

I thought for sure you were going to say she suffered from tertiary syphilis.

What happened to the two boys last you spoke of them was when she took them to go talk to napoleon?

Charlotte may have been pregnant with a child sired by a lover. Maximilan had to sign away his rights to the Austrian throne. When Maximillan adopted the children, he essentially admitted that ha and Charlotte, although young, were unlikely to have biological children. It is possible that her mental illness was due to guilt over her adultery. Allegedly, Charlotte gave birth to an illegitimate son. The Belgium royal family wanted Charlotte back in order to regain her immense fortune, Idealistic, well-intentioned and obsessed with royal protocol, Maximillan simply was not cut out to be the ruler of turbulent Mexico.

Hello friends.... Im not one to type comments normally, But i happento like this video.

What happened to the adopted boys from Mexico

I'm related to Charlotte and the prince of Austria 🇦🇹 heritage.

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God was kind to her. She went to sleep and awoke in Heaven.

F J B...........

But what happened to the adopted Mexican princes that she dragged across Europe?

A reminder for the Age.

Her life confirms to me that "mental illness" does not exist as a medical reality. she was trapped in unending despair. and such can and does drive people mad - ie frenzied and desperate as I was, and i recovered by rejecting the bogus diagnosis they foisted on me which would have trapped me in a life of dependence on therapy ( which i also now oppose - See Jeffrey Masson's book Against Therapy as to why) and drugs which address no issue but only repress behaviour

she drank the water that's what got her ! car load of what ?

¡Viva la Republica!

I do not believe Charlotte was insane in any form… she was scared, resourceful, intelligent, and knew assassination was possibly imminent. Those whom were the convincing “witnesses “ performed their duties in stating she was insane or so called losing it in her “ramblings”…. This video should have a two sided view at the least.

She could have been Borderline.

How very sad and tragic her life was before and afterwards. May she rest in peace alongside her husband. Royal inbreeding was disgusting but necessary in her time.

Interesting story of a 19th century woman as ruler of Mexico. 1n 2024, Sheinbaum emerges as woman president...

She was batshit crazy.