The Reluctant Empress: A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of AustriaFaber & Faber, 05.04.2012 - 773 Seiten The real-life tale behind Netflix's Empress Sisi and the Anarchist, whose assassination in 1898 shocked the world. |
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... beautiful than any of her daughters, including Elisabeth. She had suffered from a love affair with Prince Miguel of Braganza, later King of Portugal, whom she was not allowed to marry for political reasons. It was the family that chose ...
... beautiful.” And the lady-in-waiting, who loved her Empress, continued: “yes, her home could not be otherwise, to allow her dreaminess, her love of nature—to develop to this extent!”30 Dreaminess and a love of nature were qualities ...
... beautiful one Austria had ever had. The seeds of all future conflicts were already sown during these months before the wedding. All had their origin in the discrepancy between a clear- thinking, sensitive woman and her exploitation as a ...
... beautiful Eugénie and turned Paris into the center of European glamour. Now, at last, Vienna would catch up with Paris —or so it was hoped. A young and beautiful empress would bring new sparkle to Vienna's social life, which had ...
... beautiful hair, in her pillow, as a frightened bird hides in its nest.”16 This coucher, normally attended with great ceremony, was, in court terms, decidedly familial and intimate. Other bridal couples at other European courts had to ...
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CHAPTER THREE | |
CHAPTER FOUR | |
CHAPTER FIVE | |
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CHAPTER SEVEN | |
CHAPTER EIGHT | |
CHAPTER NINE | |
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CHAPTER ELEVEN | |
CHAPTER TWELVE | xiii |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | xxv |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | xlviii |
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