Empress Elisabeth of Austria's children, Archduchesses Sophie, Gisela, Marie Valerie, and Crown Prince Rudolf, played significant roles in her life and legacy. Their lives were marked by privilege ...

Empress Elisabeth of Austria remains a figure of fascination 125 years on. Beautiful, tragic, powerful – it is easy to understand why the tale of this ill-fated royal beauty has captured the ...

Don’t despair! Netflix has knocked the proverbial dust off the celluloid legacy of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Hungary, for a six-part drama entitled “The Empress”. The series includes plenty of ...

Twenty-five years after its Dutch premier, producers Albert Verlinde, Jaco Kaasschieter, and Huub van den Heuvel have brought ...

“The stirring life story of Empress Elisabeth – better known as ‘Sisi’ – has thrilled audiences in Germany, Austria and Switzerland for generations.” Sissi, born Duchess Elisabeth of ...

Empress Elizabeth of Austria is idolized for her beauty and renowned for inspiring fashion trends. But in 1877, 'Sissi' celebrates her 40th birthday and must fight to maintain her public image by ...

One area of the palace is the Sisi Museum, named after Empress Elisabeth, wife of Emperor ... and Prince Eugene of Savoy (who defended Austria from an Ottoman invasion in 1697).

The Empress of Austria is at present foxhunting in England. She always is at this time of year, and the question why she thus annually neglects her imperial duties, abandons her husband ...