Emperor Franz Joseph dies at the age of 86 because of pneumonia ... Franz married Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, often called ...
The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and ...
including the Sissi film trilogy and 2022's Corsage. Elisabeth's meet-cute with Franz Joseph was very similar to 'The Empress ...
and want to crown Franz Joseph and Sissi to King and Queen of Hungary. At a big ball for the Hungarians the Emperor's mother, Archduchess Sophie, insults Count Andrassy, by refusing to greet him.
Sissi, born Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria, had an incredible but troubled life. She disturbed the strict Viennese court conventions with her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary.