"A generation of allures are chasing waves, and Wu Gongkong remembers his children's home." Although this poem is written by Xi Shi and applied to the famous European beauty Princess Sisi, it is not contrary to it. Princess Sisi never got real freedom in her life, her childhood was free and unrestrained, but after marrying into the palace, she was forced to breathe by the pressure, and her noble status was like a cage to her.
All this stems from her origins. Princess Sissi was born into the German Wittelsbach family, one of the oldest nobles in Europe, a family with a long history, which had established dynastic rule in northern and eastern Europe; the members of the family were always born with a melancholy temperament; the family was rich in madmen, geniuses, and beauty.
Born in 1837, Princess Sisi became the most famous beauty in the European royal family in the 19th century because of her natural beauty and strict management of her beauty and body, coupled with the status of the Austrian empress.
Princess Sisi's mother was Princess Maria Ludovica Wilhelmine of Bavaria, and her sisters were married to the king or the Grand Duke of Austria, but she was married to a duke with an eccentric personality who was interested in circus, which made her very unbalanced.
Therefore, Princess WilliamMinnie put her hopes on her daughter, and it was her dream to arrange a royal marriage for her daughter. Her daughter, Princess Sisi, has been a beautiful embryo since she was a child, and she is very noticeable everywhere she goes, and when she was 15 years old, Sisi was as clear as the wind, and the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I could no longer look away after seeing her.
Although Franz Joseph I was not a lover of beauty and did not love the country, he was very determined to marry Princess Sisi, and even swore a cruel oath in front of his powerful mother, Princess Sophie, that "if the object is not Princess Sisi, he will not marry".
In fact, the person who was originally going to be the Empress of Austria was Princess Sissi's sister Helen, because the "Empress" Princess Sophie wanted to choose a stable Helen, but due to the insistence of Franz Joseph I, she had to replace the candidate with Princess Sissi, which made Princess Sissi dislike her mother-in-law before she entered the palace, and also laid the groundwork for her future tragedies.
In April 1854, Princess Sissi married Franz Joseph I. The Habsburg court witnessed how Princess Sisi changed from a lively little girl to a melancholy queen, because there was too much red tape in the court, and Princess Sisi, who was born with freedom of sex, could not bear it at all, and what was even more sad was that she could not get the approval of her mother-in-law, and Princess Sophie was not accustomed to her everywhere.
This kind of unaccustomedness is mainly because Princess Sissi did not give birth to a male heir as soon as possible, within 3 years after marriage, she became pregnant twice, gave birth to Grand Duke Sophie and Grand Duke Gisela, and the eldest daughter Sophie died of illness at the age of 2, which brought a great blow to Princess Sissi, she did not eat for several days, looked melancholy, and after that, as long as she fell into a period of depression and depression, she would refuse to eat.
But Princess Sisi's fasting wasn't just about emotional problems. She has a stunning beauty and figure, because court life is not free, even children are often snatched away by the mother-in-law, the only thing Princess Sissi can control is her own appearance conditions, so she will be very concerned about her weight, thin waist and beauty to maintain well, once the waistline exceeds 50 cm immediately fasting.
In Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries, there was an aesthetic trend of female thin waist as beauty, and Princess Sisi was inevitably affected, no matter how the mother-in-law Princess Sophie rolled her eyes at the waistband, Sisi maintained this habit for a long time, her waist circumference was usually maintained at about 45 cm, and even to the cruel 40 cm when the waist was excessively corseted, it is conceivable that the corset seriously damaged Sisi's health.
In 1858 Princess Sissi gave birth to her only son, Rudolf, for health reasons, even though Franz Joseph I still wanted Sissi to have another son, but she never got it, Princess Sissi did not even want to sleep with her husband, she escaped the shadow of the court through travel and horseback walking, going to other places for recuperation, until 9 years later, she became pregnant again and gave birth to her young daughter Mary.
Princess Sisi, who is more than 170 cm tall, is supposed to weigh more than 100, but Princess Sisi will never allow her weight to exceed 100 pounds, once she feels that she is a little fat, she will also fast, and her daily diet is based on vegetarian food and milk and eggs, she is very enthusiastic about physical exercise, likes to do mask maintenance, and loves her beautiful hair more like a treasure.
As can be seen from the old photos, Princess Sisi's waist circumference is indeed too thin, and it is a deformed beauty from the perspective of modern people, and sacrificing health for beauty is not worth it. But at that time, Princess Sisi poured out all of Europe with her beauty, and when she was 36 years old, the Persian king Nassertin saw her as a real person and couldn't help but sigh: "How beautiful!" ”
She even used her influence to promote the emergence of the Austro-Hungarian Empire before the birth of her youngest daughter Mary, but along with it, psychological problems have always plagued her, and princess Sisi in her later years will always wear only black clothes, and the melancholy atmosphere will not go around her.
In 1898, Princess Sissi was assassinated in Geneva, Switzerland, ending more than 40 years of empressship. She bore only 1 son to Franz Joseph I, and Rudolf died of suicide one step ahead of her. Franz Joseph I had no choice but to choose his nephew Archduke Franz Ferdinand as heir to the throne, and 16 years after Princess Sissi's death, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand became the reason for the Austro-Hungarian Empire to declare war on Serbia, and the First World War broke out.
These things are more or less related to Princess Sisi, but the Iraqis have passed away, and war or court can no longer stop Sisi's pursuit of freedom. In the history of the European royal family, Princess Sisi's beauty and influence cannot be ignored, but the beauty brought her not a peaceful and smooth life, but countless sorrows and sorrows.