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Home2022September

Month: September 2022

erzsi
Austria

Elisabeth Marie of Austria – The innocent victim of Mayerling (Part three)

September 5, 2022 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. Prince Otto hated all the travelling that Elisabeth did, and he eventually stopped joining his family. Their marriage was now clearly in trouble, and their paths began to grow apart. Later Elisabeth would say that Otto had a venereal disease, which he passed to her. She wrote, “I fell ill as [read more]

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Austria

Elisabeth Marie of Austria – The innocent victim of Mayerling (Part two)

September 4, 2022 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. After the death of Crown Prince Rudolf, Countess Elisabeth Coudenhove was appointed as a governess for young Elisabeth. The Countess would make a big impact on Elisabeth’s life, and she would remember her fondly for the rest of her life. Elisabeth’s mother, Stéphanie, had a difficult time at court – her [read more]

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Elisabeth in Bavaria

Sisi & her mother Ludovika – “One does not send the Emperor of Austria packing” (Part three)

September 3, 2022 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part two here. On 24 April 1854, Elisabeth married Franz Joseph, and the family was catapulted to fame. Elisabeth wore a gown of white and silver, strewn with myrtle blossom and an opal and diamond crown. She was led up the aisle by her mother and her soon-to-be mother-in-law. At the end of the [read more]

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Austria

Elisabeth Marie of Austria – The innocent victim of Mayerling (Part one)

September 2, 2022 Moniek Bloks 0

The baby was lovely. From the bottom of my soul, I thanked God for the treasure he had bestowed upon me, and took the little one into my arms. On 2 September 1883, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria was born as the daughter of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. She [read more]

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Elisabeth in Bavaria

Sisi & her mother Ludovika – “One does not send the Emperor of Austria packing” (Part two)

September 1, 2022 Moniek Bloks 0

Read part one here. By May 1834, Ludovika’s worried mother wrote to her daughter Amalie that Ludovika had become apathetic. One month earlier, she had given birth to her first daughter – named Helene. She had been one of a pair of twins, but Ludovika had miscarried the other twin earlier. Her husband had been [read more]

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