María Josepha Sophia de Iturbide (29 February 1872 – November 1949) was the head of the Imperial House of Mexico from 1925 to 1949.

Her father was a grandson of Agustin de Iturbide, royalist military commander turned Mexican insurgent for independence, who was elected emperor of Mexico in 1822 and forced to abdicate.

Under President Porfirio Díaz, a liberal army general who had fought against the French invasion, diplomatic relations between Mexico and Austria were resumed.

[2] Despite her very advanced age, she and her second husband, Charles de Carrière, were interned in 1948 by the Romanian Communist government as class enemies of the people.

In accordance with her will and her daughters' wishes, the leadership of the former Mexical imperial family passed to her only grandson Count Maximiliano Gustav Albrecht Richard Agustin von Goetzen Iturbide.