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 […]
Elisabeth in Bavaria
Sisi – The Final Years (Part 5)
Read part one here. Read part two here. Read part three here. Read part four here. In 1883, Katharina Schratt came into the life of […]
Sophie of Bavaria – “The only man at court”
Without doubt, Archduchess Sophie was the most significant figure of all the women of the imperial house after Maria Theresia. Sophie was born in 1805 […]
Sisi – The Lonely Empress (Part 4)
Read part one here. Read part two here. Read part three here. In my great loneliness I make tiny songs My heart, filled with grief […]
Sisi – The Wandering Empress (Part 3)
Read part one here. Read part two here. What use the solitary tear? It merely dims my sight A remnant of the olden times Left […]
Sisi – The Austrian Empress (Part 2)
Read part one here. Oh, had I but never left the path That would have led me to freedom Oh, that on the broad avenues […]
