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Wednesday, 30 June 2010 16:21 |
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<p>During your <b>vacationb> in <a href='/en/travel-services/excursion/80-austrian-excursions/254-vienna-grand-city-tour-with-schonbrunn' title='Vienna' target='_parent'>Viennaa> (<a href='/en/european-tours/combi-tours/349-escorted-tour-prague-nuremberg-munich-schwangau-vienna-salzburg-bratislava-prague' title='austria' target='_parent'>Austriaa>, <a href='/en/european-tours/czech-tours/215-independent-tour-from-prague-with-love' title='europe' target='_parent'>Europea>) or travelling along escorted european <a href="en/component/content/article/49-combi-tours/314-escorted-tour-<b>pragueb>-<b>viennab>-<b>budapestb>-<b>bratislavab>-<b>pragueb>">tour <b>Pragueb> <b>Viennab> <b>Budapestb> <b>Bratislavab>a>, please, visit <a href='/en/travel-services/excursion/80-austrian-excursions/255-classical-vienna' title='Hofburg' target='_parent'>Hofburga> and <a href='/en/travel-services/excursion/80-austrian-excursions/255-classical-vienna' title='Sisi Museum' target='_parent'>Sisi Museuma>. Since 1994 the <a href='/en/travel-services/excursion/80-austrian-excursions/255-classical-vienna' title='Sisi Museum' target='_parent'>Sisi Museuma> has been housed in the Stephan apartments, so named after Archduke Stephan Viktor. Here numerous personal items that once belonged to Elisabeth are used to help illustrate the true personality of the frequently misunderstood Empress. p>
<p>The more than 300 items on display in the museum include parasols, boxes and gloves which once belonged to the anthrophobic Elisabeth, along with her beauty recipes, her death mask and the actual file used in her assassination, which is usually kept securely under lock and key. Further items include a reconstruction of the evening dress worn by 16 year old Sisi in 1854 before she left her home in Munich, and a replica of a section of her imperial railway carriage. p><p>Empress Elisabeth (1837-1898) developed into a beautiful and extravagant woman whom Franz Joseph worshipped his whole life long. The emperor and empress had four children; their first child, Sophie, died at the age of two, their surviving daughters Gisela (1856-1932) and Marie Valerie (1868-1924) both married and had several children, from whom there are numerous descendants. Their only son, Crown Prince Rudolf, born in 1858, took his own life together with that of his mistress, the seventeen-year-old Baroness Mary Vetsera, at his hunting lodge at Mayerling in 1889. His marriage to Stephanie of Belgium had produced a daughter, Elisabeth – known as Erzsi –, who after her divorce from Prince Windisch-Graetz joined the Social Democratic Party and married the socialist Leopold Petznek, going down in Austrian history as the 'Red Archduchess'.p><p>Published on schonbrunn.at p> |
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