
Sisi & her daughter Marie Valerie – “Some strange family” (Part two)
Read part one here. The family spent Christmas of 1888 together, knowing that Marie Valerie would marry. However, they could not have foreseen the tragedy that was to come the following month. On 30 January 1889, Crown Prince Rudolf shot his mistress Mary Vetsera before turning the gun on himself. Marie Valerie found her mother [read more]