Château d'Amboise
When Marie Elisabeth was less than two years old her father, King Charles IX, died and her uncle became Henry III of France. Hardly a year later, her mother returned to Vienna after Maximilian II repaid her dowry, while Marie Elisabeth, as a Daughter of France, remained behind. She was less than three years old. Mother and daughter said their farewells at the Château d'Amboise on 28 August 1575, never to see each other again.