 After Charles 's death , the former Austrian imperial family were soon to move again . Alfonso XIII of Spain had approached the British Foreign Office via his ambassador in London , and they agreed to allow Zita and her seven ( soon to be eight ) children to relocate to Spain . Alfonso duly sent the warship Infanta Isabel to Funchal and this took them to Cadiz . They were then escorted to the Pardo Palace in Madrid , where shortly after her arrival Zita gave birth to a posthumous child , Archduchess Elisabeth . Alfonso XIII offered his exiled Habsburg relatives the use of Palacio Uribarren at Lekeitio in the Bay of Biscay . This appealed to Zita , who did not want to be a heavy burden to the state that harboured her . For the next six years Zita settled in Lekeitio , where she got on with the job of raising and educating her children . They lived with straitened finances , mainly living on income from private property in Austria , income from a vineyard in Johannisberg , and voluntary collections . Other members of the exiled Habsburg dynasty , however , claimed much of this money , and there were regular petitions for help from former Imperial officials . 
