Sophie of Hohenberg – The insanity of life (Part three)
Read part two here. Sophie’s husband had survived the war, but they had no news of their eldest son Erwein. They did learn that Sophie’s […]
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Sophie of Hohenberg – The insanity of life (Part two)
Read part one here. Sophie and her brothers travelled to Vienna with their aunts and uncles and stayed with their stepgrandmother Maria Theresa at the […]
Sophie of Hohenberg – The insanity of life (Part one)
Sophie of Hohenberg was born on 24 July 1901 at Konopiště as the daughter of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his morganatic wife Sophie, […]
Anna Juliana Gonzaga – Guided by the Virgin Mary
Anna was born with the first names Anna Caterina in Mantua in modern-day Italy in 1566 into a wealthy and noble family. Her father was […]
Empress Elisabeth’s Tattoo
Empress Elisabeth of Austria, perhaps better known as Sisi, has gone down in history as a formidable but complicated woman. One would perhaps be surprised to […]
Stéphanie of Belgium – The would-be Empress of Austria (Part three)
Read part one here. Read part two here. Stéphanie awoke on 30 January 1889 to a gloomy winter day. She had a singing lesson as […]