![]() (Side note: Franz Joseph was Helene and Elisabeth’s first cousin.) Oh, and did I mention that Helene was definitely going to marry Emperor Franz Joseph no matter what, since his mother, Sophie of Bavaria, Ludovika’s sister, wanted them to get married, and what Sophie wanted, Sophie got. Perhaps it would be the Emperor’s younger brother, who already liked her anyway. Princess Ludovika planned to marry Elisabeth’s older sister, Helene, to marry the Emperor of Austria, and maybe Elisabeth could find a husband on the way. Romy Schneider as Elisabeth in Sissi – The Young Empress (1956) Soon after he returned, though, he died of an illness, leaving Elisabeth heartbroken. Being the granddaughter of a king of Bavaria, Elisabeth couldn’t marry an insignificant count. Elisabeth soon fell in love with a count, whom she really wanted to marry, but her parents found out and sent him away. Along with being extremely pretty, Elisabeth was also 5’8″, an incredibly tall woman for the time. As she grew, her mother was proved wrong. Princess Ludovika of BavariaĮven though we tend to think of Elisabeth as literally the most beautiful woman who ever lived, her mother didn’t think so. I would certainly consider it a great happiness to think of Sisi as one of you… but alas, it is likely not to happen – for the only one who could be hoped for is unlikely to consider her first I seriously question whether he would find her attractive, and then, he is surely looking for a fortune… true, she is very pretty because she is very young and animated, but she has no single pretty feature. Her mother, Princess Ludovika, had always wanted to marry her daughter off to as great of a husband as she could find, and especially wanted Elisabeth to marry a prince of Saxony, but did not think her daughter was pretty enough and wrote: Elisabeth would sometimes even skip her lessons to go out riding. Elisabeth grew up learning how to ride horses, fish, swim, and so much more. For royals, Elisabeth and her siblings had a surprising amount of freedom, as the family spent most of their time away from court in the countryside.Įlisabeth’s father had a weird love of circuses, which I find funny. Her parents’ marriage was unhappy, but they were amazing parents. She had ten siblings, and eight, including her, survived to adulthood. She was the fourth child and second daughter of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria and Maximilian Joseph, Duke in Bavaria. The Duchess in BavariaĮlisabeth, nicknamed Sisi (sometimes spelled Sissi), was born on December 24th, 1837, in Munich. ![]() ![]() Make sure you have some tissues for the ending. Empress Elisabeth of Austria is probably the most famous Austrian Empress (and also most amazing, in my humble opinion).
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