She lost that position in May 1767 when her older brother Archduke Joseph married to a second cousin, Maria Josepha of Bavaria.
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Popular belief holds that she contracted smallpox because her mother, Maria Theresa, insisted that she go and pray at the improperly sealed tomb of her sister-in-law, Empress Maria Josepha, who had recently died of the disease because they shared the same name.
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