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From the 1860s, the couple could no longer be said to have had a married life together. Franz Joseph and Elisabeth maintained a bond of friendship, corresponding and meeting regularly. ‘You have no idea how much I loved this woman’, Franz Joseph is said to have exclaimed after Elisabeth was murdered. With Elisabeth’s full support, she ...
Elisabeth’s transformation. In the third decade of her life Elisabeth’s personality underwent a remarkable transformation: the emperor’s shy, childlike bride became a confident and strong-willed woman who was determined to shape her life on her own terms. Even though you were very cruel and vexing, I love you so boundlessly that I cannot ...
Elisabeth, or Sisi, as she was called in the family, was born in Munich on 24 December 1837. Elisabeth was the fourth of ten children born to Duke Maximilian in Bavaria (1808–1888) and Princess Maria Ludovika (1808–1892), a union that was certainly no love match and overshadowed by the couple’s diametrically opposed outlooks on life.
Sisi - Austria’s free-spirited Empress. Emperor Franz Joseph’s gaze wandered to the young, unaffected girl. The 15-year-old Elisabeth, or ‘Sisi,’ was a stunning beauty, radiating a youthful spirit. The Kaiser fell in love with her at first sight, and Sisi’s life changed forever. Who could have known that trying to defend her spirit ...
24 de dic. de 2018 · I am Sunday’s child, a child of the sun. Her golden rays she wove into my throne. With her glow, she wove my crown. It is in her light that I live. – Sisi. The future Empress Elisabeth of Austria was born on 24 December 1837 in the Herzog Max Palais in Munich as the daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and Princess Ludovika of Bavaria.
During Elisabeth's lifetime, Bavaria was a kingdom ruled by perhaps the most famous Wittelsbach, her cousin King Ludwig II (1845–1886), often referred to as “Mad Ludwig.” Eight years her junior, he ascended to the throne in 1864 and built the fairy-tale castle of Neuschwanstein, later used as the model for the castle of Sleeping Beauty in the Disney theme parks.
van Ypersele, Laurence: Elisabeth of Bavaria, Queen of the Belgians , in: 1914-1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed. by Ute Daniel, Peter Gatrell, Oliver Janz, Heather Jones, Jennifer Keene, Alan Kramer, and Bill Nasson, issued by Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2014-10-08. DOI: 10.15463/ie1418.10196.
