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Bertita Harding (1 November 1902 – 31 December 1971) was a royal German biographer with an easy and sometimes humorous style that made her a popular author. Her book Phantom Crown, a biography of the life of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico and his wife Charlotte was turned into a screenplay by John Huston for the film Juarez (1939).
Bertita Carla Camille Leonarz de Harding was born in Hungary and moved with her family to Mexico City. As a child, she grew intrigued with the story of ill-fated Carlotta and Maximilian, emperor and empress of Mexico, interrogating former ladies-in-waiting for the royal couple about their fates.
Bertita Harding has 59 books on Goodreads with 420 ratings. Bertita Harding’s most popular book is Golden Fleece: The Story Of Franz Joseph And Elisabeth...
SUMMARY: The Bertita Harding writings consists of drafts and setting copies, typescript and typescript carbon, corrected, for Harding's biographical and historical works from the 1930s and 1950s.
Author Bertita Harding describes their resourcefulness and resilience as they built new lives for themselves in Spain and later in Italy in the 1920s and 30s. Harding focuses upon the ninth child, the fourth of five sons Archduke Franz Josef (1905-1975), who collaborated significantly with her on the writing of the book.
Before social media instantly familiarized people with new cultures, Bertita Harding endowed Americans, and specifically Hoosiers, in the 1930s and 40s with illuminating accounts of Europe’s and South America’s rich, sometimes volatile past and present.
Bertita Harding, née Leonarz, was born in Nuremberg, Germany, a daughter of an engineer and his aristocratic Hungarian wife. In 1904, the family moved to Mexico City for her father's work, and she had a privileged childhood there.
