#Empress sisi

[catherinesboleyn]

Elisabeth of Austria by Franz Xaver Winterhalter / Romy Schneider as Elisabeth of Austria

[ms-cornucopia]

Romy Schneider, Sissi III (1957)

[bayernivs]

Dogs of Royal ladies

Empress sisi-Shadow

Queen Victoria-Dash

Tatiana nikolaevna-Ortipo

Anastasia nikolaevna-Schvibzik

Queen Alexandra -Alex

Maria Feodorovna-Beauty

[fancyemmabovary]

[obscurehistoricalinterests]

'Sisi' was a terrible empress. Her romanticization needs to STOP.

In more recent decades, Elisabeth has received a growing attention in pop culture: there are several series, films and even a musical paying tribute to her legend. Her beauty is admired, her trials and tribulations are pitied, her struggle to escape the chafing constraints of royal life is celebrated. There's a whiff of feminism surrounding her lately - a strong, intelligent woman, metaphorically, and if we take the film Corsage, even literally flipping off the patriarchy. She's galloping through forests barefoot, she's facing off her tyrannical mother in law, she's fighting for her freedom, for control over her own life. German writer Karen Duve goes as far as to call Elisabeth "an undiscovered feminist icon." 

But... was she? One of her ladies in waiting once said that Elisabeth will "live on in legend, not in history". And right she was. You see, Elisabeth has triumphed. When I look around, it seems as if we see her exactly as she would have wanted us to. A tragic heroine, a beautiful apparition, a nymph who somehow got trapped in the mortal realm, to her immense suffering. And for a modern woman,  there is much to empathize with in Elisabeth: her sublime sensitivity, her iron self-discipline, her headstrong character, her inborn thirst for freedom. But upon lifting the starry veil of this ethereal fairy-tale queen, one will find the face of a much more complex, flawed and ultimately human woman. Self-obsessed and narcissistic, monstrously selfish and possessive, cruelly indifferent to her empire (with one all-consuming exception), incessantly self-victimizing and deeply, deeply unhappy - overwhelmingly through her own fault.  

[kaiserinelisabethsposts]

Elisabeth with her Irish Wolfhound, Shadow.

The Irish Wolfhound was one of her favourite dog breeds. She named her first Irish Wolfhound puppy "Shadow", and the dog was aptly named as it followed her from room to room. This was the first dog to carry that name, and at least two others "inherited" it. - https://www.authorapiperburgi.com

[ladybeesbury]

Sissi {1955}

[little-candy-store-of-horrors]

Cursed historical Valentines be upon ye again

[waitwtfismylife]

things that have happened this week in austrian history:

archduchess marie valerie is born

luigi lucheni is born

these occur on the same day actually

elisabeth and franz josef marry

[foreverinthepagesofhistory]

VERY rare photo of Empress Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria smiling at the camera, 1870s (?) 🤍✨🥹

Source: Pinterest

[odysscy]

went to the sisi museum in vienna today

[madamelareinette]

There is no clear evidence that Franz Joseph cheated on his wife [in 1860]. However, as contemporaries repeatedly made allusions to it and this slight represented a major break in the couple's life together, an affair on the part of the emperor cannot be ruled out. What can be ruled out, however, is that he infected Elisabeth with a venereal disease. The prescription books, which record all the illnesses of the members of the imperial family, including venereal diseases ranging from gonorrhea to syphilis, do not contain any treatments for Franz Joseph. Elisabeth was also only given medication for digestive complaints, anemia and coughs. While Emperor Franz Joseph was prescribed cocaine for coughs for decades, Elisabeth's cough powder contained cannabis, which had a much weaker effect on coughs and was primarily used in the 19th century to treat loss of appetite and nervous disorders, but also, as in the case of Queen Victoria of England, for menstrual cramps.

– Katrin Unterreiner (2023). Sisi: Das geheime Leben der Kaiserin (DeepL translation)

[bayernivs]

mystery of Empress Sisi's wedding dress⚘️

[un-mei-no-akai-ito]

[mummycindy]

Mommy-cindy is here for you baby ❤️

[kaiserinelisabethsposts]

Posthume portrait of Elisabeth by J. von Koppay. (1890s)