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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... marry for reasons of rank. The marriage between Max and Ludovika was unhappy from the very first day. Ludovika later told her children that she had spent her first wedding anniversary weeping from morning to night. Only gradually did ...
... Marriage is an absurd arrangement. One is sold as a fifteen- year-old child and makes a vow one does not understand and then regrets for thirty years or more, and which one can never undo again.” 20 In August 1853, however, those who ...
... marriage had to be applied for; the bride and groom were, after all, first cousins. No one seems to have been concerned about this circumstance. Elisabeth's parents, too, were closely related—both were members of the Wittelsbach family ...
... marriage partners to the House of Habsburg. Grandmother Arenberg, in her turn, was related to all sorts of other aristocratic but not royal families: the Schwarzenbergs, the Windisch- Graetzes, the Lobkovics, Schönburgs, Neippergs ...
... married by excluding the public simply because the future Empress was afraid of the aristocracy. Another topic ... marriage, and unfortunately, the Emperor cannot come here. To have the wedding here is, unfortunately, impossible ...
Inhalt
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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