Archduchess Marie Valerie, the youngest child of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth (Sisi), passed away on 6 September 1924. Marie Valerie was the Empress’s favourite child, the sole object of her overwhelming motherly love. On some occasions this granted her great advantages – for instance, she was spared a dynastic marriage and was able […]
Empress Eleanor of Portugal, wife of Emperor Frederick III, passed away on 3 September 1467. Raised in the vibrant and splendid Renaissance court of Portugal, she felt like an outcast amid the austere conditions of Wiener Neustadt, the Imperial residence, and alongside her phlegmatic, surly husband — nearly twenty years her senior. Little wonder, then, […]
Archduchess Elisabeth Marie was born on 2 September 1883 as the only child of Crown Prince Rudolf and Princess Stéphanie of Belgium. When her father died by suicide at Mayerling, she was just five years old. One might wonder whether there was ever any true harmony in this princess’s life. Her grandmother, the eccentric Empress […]
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