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Netflix’s The Empress Teaser Trailer
With just over a month to go until the worldwide release of the new Netflix series The Empress about Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Netflix has released a trailer.
Month: August 2022
Elisabeth in Bavaria
Franz Joseph & Sisi – “If only he were not the Emperor!” (Part two)
Read part one here. In the early years of their marriage, Franz Joseph was deeply in love with his wife and Elisabeth no doubt returned those feelings. Three children followed in quick succession: Sophie (born 1855 – died young), Gisela (born 1856) and Crown Prince Rudolf (born 1858). However, it soon became clear that Elisabeth [read more]
Elisabeth in Bavaria
Sisi and Franz Joseph’s engagement in Bad Ischl
On 18 August 1853, a 15-year-old girl changed Austrian history when she became the fiance of her 23-year-old first cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Princess Elisabeth, Duchess in Bavaria, was a shy girl who had grown up relatively carefree and without much care for protocol. Her mother, Ludovika, had already been searching for [read more]
Elisabeth in Bavaria
Franz Joseph & Sisi – “If only he were not the Emperor!” (Part one)
The future Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria was born on 18 August 1830 as the eldest son of Archduke Franz Karl of Austria, the third son of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Princess Sophie of Bavaria. As such, he was not a direct heir to the throne, but his uncle Ferdinand I had [read more]
Elisabeth in Bavaria
Sisi and the etiquette
As a newly married Empress, Elisabeth reluctantly began to follow court protocol while lamenting the loss of her former “carefree, innocent existence of Possenhofen.” Shortly before her wedding, she had been given an intense course of study, which had included protocol and formalities. But Elisabeth had little interest in the formalities that raised her new [read more]
Mihrimah Sultan
Mihrimah Sultan – The sun and moon of the Ottoman Empire (Part two)
Read part one here. In 1553, Mihrimah’s husband would play a role in the downfall of her elder half-brother Mustafa. According to Rüstem, during an offensive by the Persians, there were mutterings that Mustafa should dethrone his father as he was too old to go against the enemy himself. Mustafa refused, despite accepting the reading [read more]