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 behind my eyes You ancient, solitary tear Dissolve Now, too. – Sisi While on Madeira, Elisabeth led a quiet and solitary life in a villa by the sea. She [read more]
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 Of vanity I had never strayed! I have awakened in a dungeon With chains on my hands And my longing ever stronger And freedom! You turned from me! I have [read more]
I am Sunday’s child, a child of the sun. Her golden rays she wove into my throne With her glow, she wove my crown It is in her light that I live. – Sisi The future Empress Elisabeth of Austria was born on 24 December 1837 in the Herzog Max Palais in Munich as the [read more]
Empress Elisabeth of Austria was an icon during her lifetime, and her tragic death only enhanced the magic. In the summer of 1898, Elisabeth met with her husband in Bad Ischl, where they were joined by their daughter Archduchess Valerie. Elisabeth was “in low spirits, as always.” Elisabeth then departed for Bad Nauheim while Valerie [read more]
Read part one here. The civil war that began with the death of King Andrew III of Hungary and Croatia ended two decades later with the succession of the grandson of Mary of Hungary, the sister of King Ladislaus IV of Hungary. He became King Charles I of Hungary. The amount of times he married is [read more]
The Kingdom of Bavaria was founded in 1805 when the Peace of Pressburg allowed the then Elector Maximilian to raise Bavaria to the status of a Kingdom. The preceding Electorate of Bavaria was an independent hereditary electorate of the Holy Roman Empire from 1623. Maximilian proclaimed himself King on 1 January 1806, and he also [read more]
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