Below, we separate fact from fiction in the life of The Empress's Elisabeth of Austria. Elisabeth, or Empress Sisi, was a ...

On September 10, 1898, the reclusive Empress Elisabeth of Austria was visiting Geneva under an assumed name when she was ...

More than a century after her death, Empress Elisabeth of Austria ... But privately, Sisi struggled with mental illness as well as grief following the deaths of her son and sister.

The reluctant empress known as “Sisi” painstakingly ... she accompanied her mother and Helene to Austria to witness her sister’s engagement to their first cousin Franz Joseph I, the Habsburg ...

brandstaetter images//Getty Images In the biography The Lonely Empress: Elisabeth of Austria, author Joan Haslip describes Sisi and her sister Helene as "wild, undisciplined little girls" who were ...

As Sisi and her sisters grew, her mother Ludovika’s ... and Sisi became the empress of Austria. A porcelain painting of Franz Josef and Elisabeth (Sisi) during their engagement.

Sisi was radiant and stood out next to her sister Helene ... The Reluctant Empress, A Biography of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Hamann was an important Austrian-German writer and historian ...

Sisi's sister Nene is to marry Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Sisi reluctantly travels to Bad Ischl for the engagement, but things do not go to plan. Sisi: Austrian Empress is available to ...

Nearly 125 years after her assassination, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria — or Sisi to her enduring cultists — continues to inspire a veritable industry of portraiture in Europe: In the last ...

More than a century after her death, Empress Elisabeth ... Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was just 16 when she was married, against her will, to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria in 1854.