Her story began with love at first sight with emperor franz joseph, followed by the confines of imperial life and an unending quest for freedom. Elisabeth was the daughter of the bavarian duke maximilian joseph On april 25, 1854, a shy and melancholy bride married into a major european royal house Sometimes known as sisi, empress elisabeth of austria lived a tragic life before she was brutally assassinated with a needle file in 1898. Sportswoman, fashion icon, traveller, poet, friend to the hungarians, and tragic victim of an assassin’s blade. Married at 16 to the emperor of austria, elisabeth—nicknamed sisi—was a reluctant empress, struggling with royal life and sympathetic to the democratic struggles of the people in her new nation.
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