Q:Facts: - sister: marie antoinette - death place: hetzendorf palace , vienna , austria - caption: maria by martin van meytens , ca. 1770 . carolina , queen of naples and sicily , - succession: queen consort of naples queen consort of sicily - reign: 12 1799 -- 30 march 1806 12 may 1768 -- 8 may september 1814 1768 -- 23 january 1799 13 june - mother: maria theresa of austria - spouse: ferdinand iv of naples - death date: 8 september 1814 - house: house of habsburg-lorraine - father: francis i , holy roman emperor - birth date: 13 august 1752 - issue: maria grand duchess of tuscany carlo tito , duke of calabria theresa princess maria anna francesco i , king of the two , sicilies maria christina , queen of sardinia princess maria cristina holy amelia prince gennaro carlo prince giuseppe carlo maria amalia , roman queen of the french maria antonia , princess of asturias empress princess maria clotilde princess maria henrietta leopold giovanni , prince maria of salerno prince alberto lodovico princess maria isabella luisa , - image: maria carolina of austria 0047 . tiff - birth place: schonbrunn empire palace , vienna , austria , holy roman - brother: joseph ii , holy roman emperor - consort: yes Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of maria carolina of austria .
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maria carolina of austria -lrb- maria karolina luise josepha johanna antonia ; 13 august 1752 -- 8 september 1814 -rrb- was queen of naples and sicily as the wife of king ferdinand iv & iii .as '' de facto '' ruler of her husband 's kingdoms , maria carolina oversaw the promulgation of many reforms , including the revocation of the ban on freemasonry , the enlargement of the navy under her favourite , john acton , 6th baronet , and the expulsion of spanish influence .she was a proponent of enlightened absolutism until the advent of the french revolution , when , in order to prevent its ideas gaining currency , she made naples a police state .born an austrian archduchess , the thirteenth child of empress maria theresa and emperor francis i , she married ferdinand as part of an austrian alliance with spain , where ferdinand 's father was king .following the birth of a male heir in 1775 , maria carolina was admitted to the privy council .thereafter , she dominated it until 1812 , when she was sent back to vienna .like her mother , maria carolina took pains to make politically advantageous marriages for her children .a patron , maria carolina promoted naples as a centre of the arts , patronising painters jacob philipp hackert and angelica kauffman and academics gaetano filangieri , domenico cirillo and giuseppe maria galanti .maria carolina , abhorring her sister marie antoinette 's treatment by the french , allied naples with britain and austria during the napoleonic and french revolutionary wars .as a result of a failed neapolitan invasion of french-occupied rome , she fled to sicily with her husband in december 1798 .one month later , the parthenopean republic was declared , which repudiated bourbonic rule in naples for six months .deposed as queen of naples for a second time by french forces , in 1806 , maria carolina died in vienna in 1814 , a year before her husband 's restoration to naples .