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. In 1853, 15 year old elisabeth (better known by her nickname ‘sissi’), accompanied her mother and elder sister helene to meet franz joseph (their first cousin), to receive his formal proposal to helene The pair did not hit it off. 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.
Sisi has gone down in history as an empress of eternal youth and beauty For more than 3 decades she was regarded as the most beautiful queen in europe. No royal family was as ubiquitous as the hapsburgs, but the rebellious empress sisi was an early feminist who rejected the court
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