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 ...

often compared to “The Crown,” that offers a fictionalized account of the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria and her relationship with Emperor Franz Joseph I. Starring Devrim Lingnau and ...

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 ...

You can even nurse your cup of Joe beneath the watchful eyes of Hapsburg Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth ... the Prückel Schnitte is the crown jewel: dark chocolate cake layered ...

Vienna café culture, in fact, is so essential to being Viennese that UNESCO put it on the Intangible Cultural Heritage list for Austria in ... Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, whose oversized ...

His wife, Empress Elisabeth—or Sisi—is still one of Austria’s most iconic and beloved figures. The Hofburg Palace is a massive palatial and governmental complex dating back to the 13th ...

Empress Elisabeth may not be famous in America, but she was an important figure in the royal family of Austria and Hungary ... across six seasons of The Crown, one of Netflix’s most acclaimed ...

At 16, she married her cousin, Franz Joseph, establishing her as the Empress of Austria. Although Franz loved Elisabeth, she did not share his ... she ended up wearing the crown. Unfortunately, she ...

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.