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One biographer claims that Maximilian took a mistress in Mexico.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last=McAllen |first=M.M |date=8 Jan 2014 |title=Maximilian and Carlota: Europe's Last Empire in Mexico |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CkvpCAAAQBAJ |publisher=Trinity University Press |page=222 |isbn= 9781595341853}}</ref> Historian [[Enrique Krauze]] suggests that Maximilian was rendered sterile due to venereal disease contracted from a Brazilian woman when he spent time in the country following his dismissal as viceroy.<ref>Krauze, Enrique, ''Mexico: Biography of Power''. New York: HarperCollins 1997, 173</ref> However, another biographer contends that not only did Maximilian have a secret entry way in his [[Palace of Cortés, Cuernavaca|Cuernavaca residence]], allowing him to discreetly have encounters with women, but that Maximilian fathered a child by a Mexican woman in [[Cuernavaca]], Concepción Sedano y Leguizano, who died shortly after Maximilian's execution. Unacknowledged as the emperor's offspring, the boy was allegedly taken to Paris and educated with funds by a Mexican ex-patriate there. During [[World War I]], he was living in Spain, where he was recruited by German intelligence. He was arrested as a traitor by the French and executed by firing squad in 1917. According to the biographer's account, citing no sources in his publication, the charge read out at his execution began "Sedano, son of Emperor Maximilian of Mexico."<ref>O'Connor, ''The Cactus Throne'', 261, 338-39</ref>
Since Maximilian and Carlota had no offspring, there are no direct descendants. However, today members of the House of Habsburg consider Maximilian an important ancestor.{{citation needed}} But in terms of the Mexican political reality, they are not in the spotlight. The nearest living [[agnatic]] relative to Maximilian is the head of the Habsburg family, [[Karl von Habsburg]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Otto's path from 'last crown prince' to European politician |url=https://www.habsburger.net/en/chapter/ottos-path-last-crown-prince-european-politician |access-date=2022-07-29 |website=Die Welt der Habsburger |language=en}}</ref> and members of the [[House of Habsburg-Lorraine]] still reside in Mexico, among them [[Carlos Felipe de Habsburgo]], the first male of the former ruling house to be born in the country.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://upaep.mx/globalinnovation | title=UPAEP | Global Innovation }}</ref> Carlos Felipe is an academic who has given many interviews, conferences, and presentations regarding his family's history, Maximilian and Carlota, and the Second Mexican Empire.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ifgworldwide.org/ifg-afternoon-presentation-6-12-19|title=IFG Afternoon Presentation (6/12/19)|website=IFG Annual Conference|language=en-US|access-date=2020-02-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.munal.mx/en/evento/mil-libros-de-historia|title=Museo Nacional de Arte|website=munal.mx|access-date=2020-02-02}}</ref>
==Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia, 1857–59==
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