the empress is the new Netflix series that has been making waves. Mainly to tell in detail the story of a not so wellknown historical figure. We are talking about Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
Born to the Bavarian royal family of Wittelsbach and nicknamed “Sissi”, Elisabeth grew up informally where her parents raised her to explore the countryside and enjoy creative reflection.
Young Sissi married Emperor Franz Joseph I at the age of 16. A marriage that pushed her into the formal life of the Habsburg court, for which she was unprepared and resented.
Eccentric and raised in the values of creativity and adventure, the monotony of real life was no problem for Sissi. In an act of defiance, the Empress began smoking (ironic given her fear of aging) and practiced horseback riding and gymnastics throughout her marriage, leading to her being the unwilling victim of gossip.
Kings remembered their looks
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Considered beautiful in their day, the good looks and elegant features of kings were often credited with maintaining a public interest in the Austrian court. Elisabeth’s motherinlaw, the notorious Archduchess Sophie, once wrote about Sissi: “It is the Empress who attracts them all. Because she is your joy, your idol.”
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In fact, people remembered Elisabeth for her beauty. As early as 1955, Hollywood star Romy Schneider landed the role of Empress in the popular German film Sissi, which is primarily about the radiant beauty of the royal family and paints a rosy portrait of her and her relationship with her husband, played by Karlheinz Böhm.
But the tragedy marked a number of the empress on Netflix
However, the young empress was far from the ideal combination of beauty and health. She suffered from an eating disorder and severe depression (or “melancholy” as it was known in the 19th century) as a result of the lack of stimulation of palace life. In addition to an intense exercise regimen, the Empress practiced several demanding beauty routines, one of which included a threehour hair ritual.
Even after four pregnancies, Elisabeth maintained her weight at around 49 kg and maintained a 16inch waist for the rest of her life. Pressure to maintain her good looks took a toll on the young queen, who was described by other courtiers as “graceful but very slender” and “extremely unhappy”.
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The Empress’s relationship with Emperor Franz Joseph did nothing to appease her tragic life. Despite what was shown on screen in Schneider’s relationship with Boehm, Elisabeth was so unhappy at the prospect of their marriage that in the minutes after the wedding the young bride was seen sobbing from her carriage as she ran through with excitement.
Once inside the palace gates, her overbearing motherinlaw, her boring husband and the sudden death of her young daughter Sophie caused great emotional pain. Later in her life, the Empress faced more tragedy with the loss of her only son, Rudolph, in a murdersuicide in 1889.
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Elizabeth’s end
Not surprisingly, in extreme bouts of grief, Elisabeth fled to Hungary, where she was able to recover from her grief and escape her unhappy marriage. It was that and the books that brought some relief to the king during his lifetime.
During her contemporary hair routines, Elisabeth used the hours to learn languages. She spoke fluent English and French and added Modern Greek to her Hungarian studies.
The Empress once told her Greek teacher: “It takes almost two hours to do my hair… and while my hair is busy, my head is idle. I’m afraid my thoughts will slip through my hair and into my barber’s fingers. Hence my headache afterwards.”
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Like so many women who came before and after her, historical accounts of Elizabeth’s intelligence have been somewhat neglected. Sissi had trouble sleeping and spent hours reading and writing at night.
With a particular interest in history, philosophy and literature, the Empress developed a fondness for the German poet and radical political thinker Heinrich Heine, whose letters she collected and which inspired her to write poetry.
The tragic life of Empress Elisabeth ended with an equally tragic death after she was murdered with a craftsman’s needle in 1898. On a trip to Geneva in 1898, Elisabeth was mortally wounded by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni. Her 44year tenure was the longest of any Austrian empress.
Posterity leaves a legacy of beauty and eccentricity, remembering Elisabeth through paintings and photographs, which she rejected after age 30 in an attempt to stay young forever. Now his story is being immortalized by the Netflix series. the empress .
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