The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

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 ...

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The story of 'The Empress' is based loosely on the real historical figure of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, the show captures the rebellious spirit of the unorthodox monarch as she challenges the ...

These days, the Hofburg Palace is residence and office of the President of Austria, however extensive ... named after Empress Elisabeth, wife of Emperor Franz Joseph, with more than 300 objects ...

Getting asylum and his citizenship is an uphill battle, but the United States ... of Austria and Hungary. Her story is retold in the German drama The Empress. It begins in 1854 when Elisabeth ...

Twenty-five years after its Dutch premier, producers Albert Verlinde, Jaco Kaasschieter, and Huub van den Heuvel have brought the show, that focuses on Empress Elisabeth of Austria, back to the stage.

Cousin of Empress Elisabeth of Austria, King Ludwig II of Bavaria’s family had been ... The first czar of Russia, Ivan IV, is known for transforming Russia from a medieval state into an empire, ...

He met Smith Woodward through his parents, and his first geological foray into Albania, in 1903, was paid for by his uncle, a favorite courtier of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. In the years to ...

Tim Chester Built in 1461 as a royal hunting lodge, this Alpine castle outside of Salzburg became a hotel after World War II and played a starring role in the Sissi film trilogy, about 19th-century ...

According to The Sun, David F Marley states in his book on Mexican Cartels that Maria ... not getting his proper treatment and was being mistreated in jail. Empress Elisabeth of Austria's children and ...

You can even nurse your cup of Joe beneath the watchful eyes of Hapsburg Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, whose oversized portraits adorn a rear wall. No wonder Freud and Trotsky (and ...