I am Maria Anna of Austria, I was the second child of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria Theresa, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. As a child, and for a time the eldest surviving child, I was heiress presumptive, but I suffered from ill health and physical disability, and did not marry. In 1766 I became abbess of the Theresian Institution of Noble Ladies in Prague. Soon thereafter I moved to Klagenfurt and remained there for the rest of my life. My palace in Klagenfurt, the Mariannengasse, now houses the Episcopal Palace.