 Zita and her siblings were raised to speak Italian , French , German , Spanish , Portuguese and English She recalled , " We grew up internationally . My father thought of himself first and foremost as a Frenchman , and spent a few weeks every year with the elder children at Chambord , his main property on the Loire . I once asked him how we should describe ourselves . He replied , ' We are French princes who reigned in Italy . ' In fact , of the twenty @-@ four children only three including me , were actually born in Italy . 
