#Marie Louise of Wallersee

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Des portraits de la comtesse Marie Louise von Larisch-Wallersee et de l'archiduchesse Marie Valérie, vers 1880

Nouvel article publié sur https://www.2tout2rien.fr/comtesse-marie-louise-von-larisch-wallersee-archiduchesse-marie-valerie/

Des portraits de la comtesse Marie Louise von Larisch-Wallersee et de l'archiduchesse Marie Valérie, vers 1880

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Common Royal & Noble Names: Marie / Mary / Maria

Mary of Burgundy

Princess Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg

Archduchess Maria Theresia of Austria

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria

Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria

Archduchess Marie Leopoldine of Austria

Princess Marie of Prussia

Marie in Bavaria

Baroness Marie Louise of Wallersee

Baroness Marie Vetsera

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Hello . Do you know if there are any books about Empress Sissi and her family on archive org? Thanks.

Hello! Sorry it took me so long, I was busy and then I got sick (not covid but still I was very tired to write anything). Luckily for us, the answers to this question is quite long! There are PLENTY of books about Sisi and her family on the archive!

Non-fiction in the public domain:

Some memoirs and near contemporany biographies that you can download for free!

Aus den letzten Jahren der Kaiserin Elisabeth, by Irma Sztáray. This book was written by the last lady-in-waiting of Sisi (literally, she's the one who accompanied Sisi to the trip in which she was assassinated), and it narrates the years Irma spent with the Empress, up to her death. It is however only in German (there are translations, but those aren't in the public domain). The upcoming movie Sisi und ich is based on this book.

My Past, by Countess Marie Larisch. The memoirs of Elisabeth's infamous niece who went down in history for being the go-between Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera. Although all memoirs are written to put its subjects in the best light, Countess Larisch's are known for being heavily unreliable, since she goes above and beyond to paint herself as a victim who did nothing wrong, ever. And on top of that, she also just, straight up made stuff up. Still, she was Sisi's close confidant for many years so there probably are true facts in here also. And more importantly, many books do use this memoirs as well as her other works as sources, sometimes without even citing her or noting that she's not super trustable, so knowing what stories originate from here may worth the read.

I was to be Empress by Stephanie of Belgium. The memoirs of Elisabeth's daughter-in-law, in which she gives her version of her married life with Rudolf, her time as Crown Princess and the Mayerling affair. This book is high in my TBR list, because Stephanie was a much maligned figure on her time and I'm really curious about what she had to say about it. Fun? fact: Archduchess Erzsi, Stephanie and Rudolf's daughter, had this book banned in Austria.

My own affairs by Louise of Belgium. The memoirs of Stephanie's elder sister, whom also married into Austria and had a very scandalous life. There isn't much about Sisi here so it might not be of your interest, but after watching this video about Louise's life I've been dying to read it since it sounds like a legit good read? Also she and her husband were close friends with Rudolf, so she has some stuff to say about Mayerling.

Recollections of a Royal Governess. Written by the governess of Archduchess Erzsi, this book is full of anecdotes and stories about the Imperial family (although once again, there isn't much on the Empress herself). Not sure on how reliable it is, but it can be an interesting reading nontheless.

Maria Sophia, Queen of Naples: A Continuation of "The Empress Elizabeth", by Clara Tschudi. The first biography ever on Sisi's younger sister Marie. Here's my review on it.

BONUS:

Absolutely unreliable books that you may want to check for funsies only:

The secret of an empress, by Countess Zanardi Landi. In case you don't know, there was a woman that claimed for YEARS that she was Elisabeth's illegitimate daughter. No one believed her back then and no one believes her now - but before DNA tests you could claim being the long lost child of anyone and nobody could do anything about it. Said woman wrote a book on this; its contents are probably 95% made up, but in case you're curious about what she had to say, here it is.

Behind the Scenes at the Court of Vienna by Henri de Weindel. I skimmed through it and honestly it sounds fake, but hey who knows - maybe de Weindel was onto something. On the same vein of "hey this sounds kinda fake but maybe it isn't?" Princess Catherine Radziwiłł wrote some books about the Austrian court too (also in the public domain).

Non-fiction not in the public domain:

Books you can borrow and read for free, but not donwload. There are plenty so I'll just recommend the ones I've read.

The Reluctant Empress by Brigitte Hamann. Elisabeth's historiography in English it's kinda outdated, so Hamann's work from the 80s remains the most complete biography available (and it's overall still considered one of Elisabeth's best biographies). She does a really good research and covers many aspects of her life that sometimes don't recieve much attention (like her relationship with her siblings). However, as it is often noted, Hamann is also weirdly hostile towards Sisi, and many of her conclusions about her have a very noticeable negative bias. It's still very informative, just be prepared for this because it can be annoying.

Sissi ou la fatalité by Jean Des Cars. This is a very good a biography on Elisabeth. Des Cars has a more positive view on his subject and reading it after Hamann's gave me a more complete and nuanced picture of Sisi. My main criticism is that Des Cars isn't a historian but a journalist and it shows; his approach to his subject and investigation was very journalist-like. Also his prose is a bit dramatic so be prepared for that too lol. There isn't an English translation and on the Archive only the original in French is available.

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria by Egon Corti. This biography was groundbreaking when first published, Corti went through many primary sources unknown to the general public of the time and interviewed people that actually met Elisabeth. Although now it's considered outdated, to this day it's the backbone of any book on the Empress.

The Emperor and the Actress by Joan Haslip. This book covers the relationship between Franz Josef and actress Katharina Schratt, whose friendship (and maybe much more than that) lasted over twenty years. This book is fairly short and easy to read; personally FJ's relationship with Katharina is like the only thing about him that I find genuinely interesting and I loved learning more about it. Elisabeth was the first shipper of these two so she appears a lot too. For more books about FJ check his tag.

A LOT has been written about Elisabeth's brother and sister-in-law Archduke Maximilian and Princess Charlotte - the short lived Emperor and Empress of the Second Mexican Empire. Currently I'm reading The Crown of Mexico by Joan Haslip (available on the archive) and I'm quite enjoying it - although it does has some outdated language (specially when talking about the indigenous people from Mexico) and one random homophobic comment that's pretty gross. Other than that it's quite informative and easy to read, specially if you don't know much about the subject. I could not list all the works about them on the Archive, there's just a lot of non-fiction and fiction, as well as some memoirs of people that knew them and were in Mexico with them. I recommed going through their tags ([x][x]) or just looking up "Maximilian of Mexico" and "Carlota of Mexico" to see all that's available.

There are a couple of biographies on King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Elisabeth's cousin and friend. I woudn't know which one of these recommend to you, but you could start with Greg King's one, since I've read other works by him and they were good.

Fiction books:

There's plenty too! I can't recommend any of these tho, since the only fictional book about Sisi that I've read isn't here, so I'll just highlight the popular ones:

Elisabeth The Princess Bride by Barry Denenberg. The Royal Diaries seems to be every English speaker royal history nerd formative book series so I'm sure this one is beloved too.

The Accidental Empress and Sisi, Empress On Her Own, by Allison Pataki. This duology was published fairly recently and it's quite popular. The Sisi stans of Goodreads THRASHED these books tho, since apparently Pataki is very historically inaccurate.

The Fortune Hunter by Daisy Goodwin. Apparently it isn't very good either.

A Caged Bird by Maureen Fleming. Not a popular book at all, just highlighting it because this 30s novel it's in the public domain so you can download it (and because the first lines killed me).

These are just some books (and I haven't read many of them); the Archive is an amazing place because you can spend hourse searching and finding books and information. If you go to the tag you'll find even more books on Sisi (I couldn't fit all of them on the post), there are also some on Crown Prince Rudolf here. If there is someone in particular you are interested in and I haven't covered them here tell me and I see if I can find something!

I hope this answer helped you!

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A nice close-up of Marie Louise Elizabeth Mendel daughter of actress Henriette Mendel, Baroness von Wallersee and Ludwig Wilhelm, Duke in Bavaria 

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best books of march 2022:

5. My Past: Reminiscences of the Courts of Austria and Bavaria, Marie Louise von Wallersee-Larisch. Obviously Larisch was writing this with a motive and with an axe to grind. Don’t trust what she says, etc etc. But this is still a very enjoyable memoir. Slander is fun to read!

4. The Golden Ass, Apuleius, trans. Joel C. Relihan. Roman novel about Lucius, who gets turned into a donkey and doesn’t get un-metamorphosed until the goddess Isis intervenes. Still pretty funny, even if it is unfortunately misogynistic at times. 

3. The Emperor’s Tomb, Joseph Roth, trans. Michael Hofmann. I liked The Radetzky March, but didn’t love it, and I expected this to be the same sort of novel. But it really isn’t! It is the story of a man who lives past the end of his world, told sparsely and beautifully. A must-read if you have any kind of warm feelings for Austria-Hungary

2. Right-Wing Women, Andrea Dworkin. There’s nothing like reading Dworkin. She just has a way of articulating things that are right outside the boundaries of what you’ve allowed yourself to think. & what she writes is unfortunately prescient & still very much an issue today. 

1. Água Viva, Clarice Lispector, trans. Stefan Tobler. A very interesting novel- one I’m only calling a novel because it was shelved in fiction. It’s more like poetry than any other novel I’ve ever read- it lacks a plot, characters, dialogue. It is a monologue about moments, and the self, and death- very beautiful. 

Honourable mention to Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Adrienne Rich’s The Dream of a Common Language

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Májusban lesz egy olvasási maraton, melynek középpontjában a történelmi regények, ismeretterjesztő kötetek, és egyéb témához kapcsolódó könyvek állnak. Egyébként @beautiful_dauntless szervezi, és stílusosan a Múltidéző május nevet kapta. . Nos, a képen egy random összedobott TBR listát láthattok, valószínűleg mind nem fog a májusomba beleférni, de aztán ki tudja... . 1. Világkörüli út - Egy történelmi könyv, ami nem Európában, vagy az USA-ban játszódik. - Robert Merle: Moncada 2. Női sorsok - Egy történelmi könyv, aminek középpontjában a nők állnak. - Dénes Zsófia: Zrínyi Ilona 3. 20. század előtt - Egy könyv, aminek a cselekménye a 20. század előtt játszódik. - Elizabeth Chadwick: A legnagyobb lovag 4. Tudj meg többet! - Egy ismeretterjesztő könyv. - John Lukacs: A párviadal 5. Az én történetem - Egy memoár/napló/levelezés. - Marie Louise von Wallersee-Larisch: Sisi udvarában 6. Hallatom a hangom - Egy könyv, melynek középpontjában egy kisebbség áll. - Örkény István - Lágerek népe 7. Ifjúság, bolondság - Egy ifjúsági történelmi könyv. - Ruta Sepetys: árnyalatnyi remény 8. Rejtett kincsek - Egy olynan könyv, ami olyan törrénelmi eseményről, vagy személyről szól, ami/aki kevésbé ismert. - Norbert Fryd: Mexikó császárnéja 9. Történelem képekben - egy történelmi képregény. - Sid Jacobson: Anne Frank 10. Hazafi - Egy magyar szerző könyve - Bán Mór: A Hajnalcsillag fénye . #olvasásimaraton #tbr #könyvesblogger #könyvek #olvasás #múltidézőmájus #történelem #vhrai #libellum https://www.instagram.com/p/CN3IEO0LFuH/?igshid=1gp8km298s5vi

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... Cuando la pareja se casó en septiembre de 1828, se dice que Ludovica, todavía descarada y agresiva en ese momento, maldijo esta unión y todas sus consecuencias al arrojar el ramo de la novia. Más tarde, según el rumor que circulaba, habría encerrado enojada a su nuevo marido en un armario y, a pesar de estos comienzos poco atractivos, el matrimonio fue sumamente fructífero. La pareja dio a luz a diez hijos en total. En junio de 1831, nació Louis. Más tarde renunció a su derecho de nacimiento, se casó con una mujer, la actriz Henriette Mendel, y fue el padre de la que se convirtió en Louise Larisch von Wallersee y que pasó a la historia como "la condesa Larisch" debido a su complicidad en la tragedia de Mayerling. Guillaume Charles, nacido en diciembre de 1832, vivió solo unas pocas semanas. En abril de 1834, nació la primera hija, Hélène conocida como “Néné”, luego, en la Nochebuena de 1837, Élisabeth, apodada “Sissi”. Y otros seis hijos: en 1839, nació Charles - Théodore conocido como "Gackel" (el cacareo, el hablador) que se convirtió en oftalmólogo, siguieron los nacimientos con Marie Sophie, la futura reina de las Dos Sicilias, en 1841, luego la tierna Mathilde Ludovica, "Spatz" (el gorrión) en 1843, Maximilian en 1845, que falleció el mismo día que nació, Sophie Charlotte en 1847, la futura duquesa de Alençon que perdió la vida en París en 1897 en el incendio del Bazar de la Charité, y, en 1849, el más joven, Maximilien Emmanuel, apodado "Mapperl". (en Alicante Capital) https://www.instagram.com/p/CILjcUtn2b7/?igshid=eduud828i8d6

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Minor Nobles & House of Wittelsbach: Baroness Marie Louise of Wallersee

Marie was born as the bastard daughter of Ludwig in Bavaria and actress Henriette Mendel. She received her mother’s last name at birth and her parents married a year later morganatically. 9 days before the wedding, Henriette had received the title of Baroness of Wallersee which could be inherited by her children. Ludwig had to give up his rights as a first-born son to marry Henriette.

Marie received a liberal education and experienced a relatively free childhood. Like her aunt Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria, she was a talented rider but also fencer. When Elisabeth visited her brother and his family in 1869, she took a liking in Marie Louise and first invited her to Vienna. In 1876, she spent serveral months with her aunt in Hungary. She became a close companion of The Empress. This was seen as inappropriate since Marie was “only” the daughter of an actress. Among those critical was also Baroness Helene of Vetsera, the mother of the famous Mary Vetsera.

Countess Marie Festetics von Tolna, a lady-in-waiting of Elisabeth, was jealous of Marie as well and arranged a meeting of her with Count Larisch-Moennich. Pressured by her aunt, Marie agreed to marry him on October 20th, 1877. The couple moved to Slesia and had two children, Franz Joseph and Marie Valerie, in 1878 and 1879.

The marriage was not happy and since Marie regarded the marriage as forced upon her she did not feel obligated to be loyal to her husband. She began an affair with Heinrich Baltazzi, the brother of The Baroness of Vetsera, who most likely is also the father of her children Marie Henriette and Georg Heinrich. Although it was an open secret, her husband still aknowledged the children as his. But the birth of Friedrich Karl in 1894, whose father was Ernst von Otto-Kreckwitz, was the last straw. The couple no longer could keep up appearances as Marie lived in Bavaria and her husband in Slesia since 1889. They divorced in 1896.

Even before the divorce, the Count and Marie were not on good terms. He only gave her the bare minimum of financial aid, so she went into huge debts. They were often covered by her lover Baltazzi and her cousin Crown Prince Rudolf. Mary Vetsera, the niece of Balatazzi, had a crush on Rudolf and Marie introduced the young woman to her cousin. She also covered some of their meetings out of friendship to Mary and thankfulness to Rudolf for covering her bills. But after Mary Vetsera caused a scandal in the opera in 1888, Marie no longer arranged meetings. However this did not stop the couple from meeting which ended tragically in the Mayerling incident.

Rudolf had burned his own love letters to Mary but kept those of Mary and his cousin Marie Louise in his desk where they were found after his death. He actually hinted to those in his testament. One letter of Marie Louise was even found in his uniform jacket which was the cause that she became a persona non grata at Viennese court.

She married her second husband opera singer Otto Brucks in 1897. He lost his position at the Bavarian court out of solidarity with the Austrian royal house when he began a relationship with Marie. In every review of his performance, they hinted more to their scandalous relationship then they wrote about his actually singing. This led him to become an alcoholic. In 1899, Marie Louise bore her last child Otto Brucks jr. Since her husband lost his job, the family was having money issues which led Marie Louise to write a book about everything she knew about her royal relatives. Emperor Franz Joseph tried to stop the publishing of it by buying the manuscript and paying her a pension. Nevertheless, she came into contact with publisher again and again because she wanted to regain her reputation and because money was still tight. Her book My Past was ultimately published in Britain in 1913 and became an immediate bestseller. The book also came to Germany a year later as an illegal printing. Her husband died the same year from health issues regarding his drinking.

The following years, Marie Louise lived in poverty and even had to work as a household manager in Berlin. In 1920, she even starred in a silent movie about her aunt Elisabeth in which she played herself. In 1924, she wanted to escape poverty by emigrating to the US. A journalist wrote an article about her and her life which also included the offer that she would marry whoever payed her and her son’s travel expenses to the US. At the age of 66, she arrived and three days later she married William Henry Meyers who had actually hope to gain money and respect through the marriage. He mistreated her until she could flee to New Jersey in 1926 where she worked as a cook and maid.

Her misery would not end here. She told her life story to a German-American writer who wrote two embroidered books about her without sharing the profits. This damaged Marie’s reputation even more and she was seen as money-hungry and evil former countess that wanted to profit from her relatives. She moved back to Augsburg in 1929. She died 11 years later, dirt poor in a retirement home. After her death, a Gestapo member searched her room and found serveral manuscripts.

In her 1936 book My Royal Relatives, she claims to not actually have been the daughter of Ludwig in Bavaria and Henriette Mendel but actually the bastard daughter of her aunt Marie in Bavaria, The Queen of Two Sicilies and Count Armand de Lavaÿss. While Marie indeed had an unnamed illegitimate daughter, it is speculated that the father was an officer of the papal guard. My Royal Relatives is also the only source for this claim, so it should be taken with a grain of salt.

Marie’s last wish to have a tomb stone with her birth name on it was only fulfilled in 2012. She is buried next to her father and son Friedrich Karl in Munich.

// Julia Cencig as Marie Larisch in The Crown Prince (2006)

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Master Post - Members by birth

Disclaimer: Houses that rule(d)/reside(d) in other countries but originally came from German and/or Austrian territories and/or are generally regarded as belonging to this cultural room are listed among the German & Austrian Houses.

German & Austrian Houses

House of Ascania

Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst aka Catherine the Great

House of Coburg (Cadet branch of the House of Wettin)

Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, The Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Antoinette of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, Duchess of Württemberg

Princess Charlotte of Belgium, The Empress of Mexico, Archduchess of Austria

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia

Princess Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess Royal, The German Empress

Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, The Princess of Leiningen, The Duchess of Kent

House of Griffin

Elizabeth of Pomerania, Holy Roman Empress

House of Habsburg

Archduchess Johanna of Austria, The Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Holy Roman Empress, The Electress of Bavaria

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess of Lorraine and Bar

Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, The Electress of Bavaria

Archduchess Maria Antonia “Marie Antoinette” of Austria, The Queen of France and Navarre

Archduchess Maria Leopoldine of Austria, The Empress of Brazil, Queen of Portugal & the Algarves

Maria Theresia, The Archduchess of Austria, Holy Roman Empress

Archduchess Sophie of Austria

House of Hanover (Cadet branch of the House of Welf)

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, The Queen in Prussia

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, Empress of India

House of Hesse

Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

House of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, The Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, The Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen

House of Hohenstaufen

Elisabeth “Beatrix” of Swabia, The Queen of Castile, León & Galicia

Konstanze “Anna” of Hohenstaufen, The Empress of Nicaea

House of Hohenzollern

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

Princess Caroline of Ansbach, The Queen of Great Britain & Ireland, The Electress of Hanover

Princess Elisabeth of Brandenburg, The Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg-Göttingen

Princess Luise of Prussia, Princess Radziwiłł

Princess Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, The Queen of Sweden

Princess Marie of Prussia, The Queen of Bavaria

Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, The Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

House of La Marck

Amalia of Cleves

Anne of Cleves, The Queen of England

Sybille of Cleves, The Electress of Saxony

House of Leiningen

Princess Feodora of Leiningen, The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

House of Liechtenstein

Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, Countess Esterházy de Galantha

House of Mecklenburg

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Great Britain, Ireland & Hanover

Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg aka Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia

Friederike (Federica) of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Hanover

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Prussia

Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Princess of Thurn and Taxis

House of Northeim

Richenza of Northeim, Holy Roman Empress

House of Oldenburg

Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, German Empress

Princess Cecilie of Greece & Denmark, The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

House of Reuß

Princess Hermine Reuß of Greiz, “German Empress”

House of Thurn and Taxis

Princes Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, Duchess of Württemberg

House of Welf

Adelaide of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Italy

Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, The Queen of the United Kingdom & Hanover

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, The Queen in & of Prussia

Princess Juliane of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, The Queen of Denmark and Norway

House of Wettin

Adelheid (Adelaide) of Saxe-Meiningen, The Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, German Empress

Princess Christina of Saxony, The Landgravine of Hesse

Princess Luise (Louise) of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, The Countess of Pölzig and Beiersdorf

House of Wied-Neuwied

Princess Elisabeth of Wied, The Queen & Princess of Romania

House of Wittelsbach

Princess Alexandra of Bavaria

Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, The Queen of Saxony

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress

Elisabeth “Sisi” in Bavaria, The Empress of Austria

Elisabeth (Isabeau) of Bavaria, The Queen of France

Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, The Queen of Prussia

Helene “Néné” in Bavaria, The Hereditary Princess of Thurn and Taxis

Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, The Duchess in Bavaria

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, The Archduchess of Inner Austria-Styria

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, The Queen of Saxony

Marie in Bavaria, The Queen of Two Sicilies

Baroness Marie Louise of Wallersee, Countess of Larisch

Mathilde in Bavaria, The Countess of Trani

Sophie in Bavaria, The Duchess of Alençon

Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria

House of Württemberg

Mary of Teck, The Queen of the United Kingdom & British Dominions, Empress of India

Princess Sophie of Württemberg, The Queen of the Netherlands

Minor Nobles

Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, The Imperial Countess of Cosel

Katharina von Bora, Mrs Martin Luther

Baroness Louise Lehzen

Baroness Marie “Mary” of Vetsera

Sophie Botta, The Dark Countess of Hildburghausen

Sophie of Pannwitz, Countess of Voß

Foreign Houses

House of Albret

Jeanne d’Albret, The Queen of Navarre, 1. The Duchess of Jülich-Cleves-Berg and 2. The Duchess of Vendôme

House of Aviz

Infanta Eleonor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress

House of Bourbon

Princess Louise d’Orléans, Princess Alfons of Bavaria

Byzantine Imperial Family

Princess Eudokia Laskarina of Nicaea, The Hereditary Duchess of Austria

Irene of Byzantium, The Queen of the Germans, The Duchess of Swabia

Princess Theodora Angelina, The Duchess of Austria & Styria

Princess Theodora Komnene of Byzantium, The Duchess of Bavaria & Austria

Theophanu, Holy Roman Empress

House of Chotek

Countess Sophie Chotek of Chotkowa and Wognin, The Duchess of Hohenberg

House of Este

Maria Beatrice d’Este, The Duchess of Massa & Carrara, Archduchess of Austria

House of Jagiellon

Jadwiga (Hedwig) Jagiellon, The Electress of Brandenburg

House of Stuart

Elizabeth Stuart, The Queen of Bohemia & Electress Palatine

House of Trastámara

Queen Joanna “The Mad” of Castile, Léon & Aragon, The Duchess of Burgundy, Archduchess of Austria

House of Valois

Mary, The Duchess of Burgundy, Archduchess of Austria

Commoners

Fatima Kariman aka Maria Aurora (von) Spiegel

Helene Baltazzi, The Baroness of Vetsera

Louise Rump, Mrs Ebert

Margot Großmann, Mrs Sauerbruch

Maria Anna Mozart, The Imperial Baroness Berchthold

Maria “Mizzi” Kaspar

Ottilie Richter, Baroness of Faber

Sophie Scholl

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Minor Nobles: Helene Baltazzi, The Baroness of Vetsera

Helene was born in 1847 in Marseille as the daughter of a Greek banker. Her younger brother is the equestrian Alexander Baltazzi.

In 1864, she married the Austrian diplomat Albin, Knight of Vetsera, who was elevated to the status of Baron 6 years later. At the time of their marriage, it is said that Helena was the richest girl in Constantinople/Istanbul. She and her husband moved to Vienna, the Austrian capital, where Helena would become a woman of the society.

Between 1865 and 1872, Helena bore four children, two boys and two girls. Her oldest daughter Marie, nicknamed Mary, would gain tragic fame by being the victim in the murder suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, that is also known as Mayerling Incident.

Helene fell from grace with the Austrian court and the aristocracy. She denied any involvement in encouraging the affair of Mary with Rudolf but instead blamed her former friend Countess Marie Louise of Larisch-Wallersee, who was also a cousin to Rudolf and niece of Empress Elisabeth.

Helene would survive her husband and all of her four children. She died impoverishedly on February 1st, 1925, in Vienna and is burried in Payersbach.

// Alexandra Vandernoot as Helene Vetsera in The Crown Prince (2006)

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Master Post of German & Austrian Nobles and Royals

Royal and Noble Houses

House of Coburg (Cadet branch of the House of Wettin)

Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, The Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Charlotte of Belgium, The Empress of Mexico

Princess Louise of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, The Duchess of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, (1st marriage)

Princess Mary of Teck, The Queen of the United Kingdom & British Dominions, The Empress of India

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, The Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia

Princess Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess Royal

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (wife of Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha)

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, The Princess of Leiningen, The Duchess of Kent

House of Habsburg

Anna Plochl, Countess of Meran

Princess Charlotte of Belgium, The Empress of Mexico, Archduchess of Austria

Infanta Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress, The Archduchess of Austria

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress

Elisabeth in Bavaria, The Empress of Austria

Princess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress

Queen Joanna of Castile, León and Aragon (Consort of Philip the Handsome, Archduke of Austria and The Duke of Burgundy)

Archduchess Johanna of Austria, The Grand Duchess of Tuscany

Kunigunde of Austria, The Duchess of Bavaria-Munich

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Electress of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress

Archduchess Maria Anna of Austria, Princess of Lorraine and Bar

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, The Archduchess of Inner Austria-Styria

Archduchess Maria Antonia of Austria, The Electress of Bavaria

Archduchess Maria Antonia “Marie Antoinette” of Austria, The Queen of France

Archduchess Maria Leopoldina, The Empress of Brazil, The Queen of Portugal and the Algarves

The Archduchess Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia) of Austria, Holy Roman Empress

Mary, The Duchess of Burgundy

Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria

Countess Sophie Chotek of Chotkowa and Wognin, The Duchess of Hohenberg

Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, The Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia

House of Hanover (cadet branch of the House of Welf)

Princess Adelaide (Adelheid) of Saxe-Meiningen, The Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover

Princess Caroline of Ansbach, The Queen of Great Britain

Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, The Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover

Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover

Frederica (Friederike) of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Hanover, The Duchess of Cumberland and Teviotdale (3rd marriage)

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, The Queen in Prussia

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, The Duchess of Kent (2nd marriage)

House of Hesse

Princess Alice of Great Britain and Ireland, The Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine aka Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

House of Hohenzollern

Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, The German Empress

Princess Augusta Victoria (Auguste Viktoria) of Schleswig-Holstein, The German Empress 

Princess Caroline of Ansbach, The Queen of Great Britain

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, The Queen of Prussia

Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, The Queen of Prussia

Frederica (Friederike) of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Princess Louis Charles of Prussia (1st marriage)

Princess Hermine Reuß, “German Empress”

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Prussia

Princess Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg, The Queen of Sweden

Princess Marie of Prussia, The Queen of Bavaria

Princess Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, The Queen in Prussia

Princess Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess Royal, The German Empress

Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia, The Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

House of Liechtenstein

Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, Countess Esterházy

House of Mecklenburg

Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Great Britain, Ireland and Hanover

Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg aka Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia

Frederica (Friederike) of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Hanover

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Queen of Prussia

Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Princess of Thurn and Taxis

House of Oldenburg

Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, The Duchess of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Augusta Victoria (Auguste Viktoria) of Schleswig-Holstein, The German Empress

Princess Cecilie of Greece and Denmark, The Hereditary Grand Duchess of Hesse and by Rhine

Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, The Empress of Russia aka Catherine the Great

House of Romanov (incl. Romanov-Holstein-Gottrop)

Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine aka Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia

Princess Elisabeth of Hesse and by Rhine, Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna of Russia

Princess Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst, The Empress Regnant of Russia aka Catherine the Great

House of Thurn and Taxis

Helene in Bavaria, The Hereditary Princess of Thurn and Taxis

Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, The Duchess of Württemberg

Therese of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, The Princess of Thurn and Taxis

House of Welf (without the British Hanover branch)

Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern

Elisabeth of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg aka Grand Duchess Anna Leopoldovna of Russia

House of Wettin (without the Coburg branch)

Princess Adelaide (Adelheid) of Saxe-Meiningen, The Queen of the United Kingdom and Hanover

Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, The Queen of Saxony

Princess Feodora of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, The Duchess of Saxe-Meiningen

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, The Queen of Saxony

Sibylle of Cleves, The Electress of Saxony

House of Wittelsbach

Princess Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, The Queen of Saxony

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg, Holy Roman Empress

Elisabeth in Bavaria, The Empress of Austria

Elisabeth of Bavaria, The Queen of France

Princess Elisabeth Ludovika of Bavaria, The Queen of Prussia

Helene in Bavaria, The Hereditary Princess of Thurn and Taxis

Kunigunde of Austria, The Duchess of Bavaria-Munich

Princess Louise d’Orléans, Princess of Bavaria

Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, The Duchess in Bavaria

Archduchess Maria Amalia of Austria, Electress of Bavaria, Holy Roman Empress

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, The Archduchess of Inner Austria-Styria

Princess Maria Anna of Bavaria, The Queen of Saxony

Marie in Bavaria, The Queen of Two Sicilies

Princess Marie of Prussia, The Queen of Bavaria

Baroness Marie Louise of Wallersee, The Countess Larisch

Mathilde in Bavaria, The Countess of Trani

Sophie in Bavaria, The Duchess of Alençon

Princess Sophie of Bavaria, Archduchess of Austria

House of Württemberg

Princess Marie Auguste of Thurn and Taxis, The Duchess of Württemberg

Princess Mary of Teck, The Queen of the United Kingdom & British Dominions, The Empress of India

Princess Sophie of Württemberg, The Queen of the Netherlands

The Ottonians

Adelaide of Burgundy, Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Italy

Theophanu, Holy Roman Empress

Other (Minor) Nobles and Royals

Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, Imperial Countess of Cosel

Anne of Cleves, The Queen of England

Dunkelgräfin [Dark Countess] aka Sophia Botta

Princess Feodora of Leininigen, The Princess of Hohenlohe-Langenburg

Helene Baltazzi, The Baroness of Vetsera

Katharina von Bora, Mrs Luther

Baroness Louise Lehzen

Maria Anna Mozart, Imperial Baroness (of) Berchthold

Baroness Marie “Mary” of Vetsera

Marie Karoline of Mollard, Imperial Countess of Fuchs to Bimbach

Baroness Ottilie of Faber aka Countess Ottilie of Faber-Castell

Ottilie Richter, Baroness of Faber

Richenza of Northeim

Tropes

German Empresses

Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

Augusta Victoria (Auguste Viktoria) of Schleswig-Holstein

Princess Hermine Reuß [Claimed titled without right]

Princess Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland, Princess Royal 

Holy Roman Empresses

Adelaide of Burgundy, Queen of Italy

Infanta Eleanor of Portugal, The Archduchess of Austria

Eleonore Magdalene of Neuburg

Princess Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Elizabeth of Pomerania

The Archduchess Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia) of Austria

Richenza of Northeim

Theophanu

Ladies-in-waiting

Princess Sophie of Liechtenstein, Countess Esterházy

Mistresses

Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, Imperial Countess of Cosel

Fatima Kariman aka Maria Aurora (von) Spiegel

Maria “Mizzi” Kaspar

Baroness Marie “Mary” of Vetsera

Period Drama Fashion

see Master Post: Period Drama Fashion

Queen (Consorts) of England/The United Kingdom/Great Britain

Princess Adelaide (Adelheid) of Saxe-Meiningen

Anne of Cleves

Princess Caroline of Ansbach

Princess Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

Princess Mary of Teck

Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom

Queens of the Iberian Peninsula

Queen Joanna of Castile, León and Aragon

Archduchess Maria Leopoldina, The Empress of Brazil, The Queen of Portugal and the Algarves

Siblings

The Children of Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld 

The Daughters of Caroline of Baden, The Queen of Bavaria 

The Daughters of Princess Ludovika of Bavaria

Significant Non-Nobles

Louise Ebert (née Rump)

Margot Sauerbruch (née Großmann)

Sophie Scholl

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New posts

There will soon be new original posts. For some I only need to write the next and others are just ideas in my head so far for which I also have footage for gifs. If you have any wishes, please tell me. I can’t always promise to do them but I will write them down to keep them in the back of my mind if I ever find an ideal fancast, unless you provide me with one of course.

My current works-in-progress:

Baroness Marie Louise of Wallersee, Countess Larisch [niece of Elisabeth “Sisi” of Austria]

Fatima Kariman aka Maria Aurora (von) Spiegel [Ottoman mistress of Augustus the Strong]

Hildegard of Bingen [nun and founder of German scientific natural history]

Mary Vetsera [Mistress of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria]

Rosa Luxemburg [German politician of the 1910s]