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Sisi – Sissi – Elisabeth of Wittelsbach – Biography – Famous People from Vienna, Austria
Sisi was born as daughter of Duke Maximilian and Duchess Ludovika in Bavaria.
In 1853, she got to know her cousin Emporer Franz Joseph, who was going to marry Sisi’s sister Helene.
Elisabeth wittelsbach biography of christopher
Franz Joseph fell in love with Sisi immediately and decided to marry her instead of her sister. They married, Elisabeth being 16 years old. The love marriage did not work out: Sisi was an independent girl and totally unprepared for the strict protocol at court, an ambitious stepmother and a busy husband who struggled to fight revolutionary and separatist tendencies in the Habsburg empire…
The Viennese aristocracy was making fun of her and her mother in law Sophie took over the control of her life.
Her children were taken from her and Sisi was barely allowed to see them, putting her in deep depression and illness. After two year of cure and lodging in Madeira, Korfu and Bavaria,