Foreword: Princess Sisi, the peerless queen of Austria, died in a foreign land, leaving behind a wisp of incense. She is the goddess in the hearts of thousands of people, and people remember her beauty and call her "Eternal Sissi". However, is the real Sissi that perfect? #茜茜公主#
(Princess Sissi)
(Princess Sissi)
Wild Bavarian princess
In April 1854, at the age of 16, Princess Sisi sailed down the Danube River from her hometown of Bavaria on a luxury cruise ship to Vienna, the capital of the Austria Empire. The new Empress was warmly welcomed, flowers and applause were everywhere, and this innocent and beautiful little girl, like a bright ray of sunshine, swept away the gloom over Vienna.
The 24-year-old Emperor of Austria, Franz · Joseph I, looked at the delicate bride and felt that he had become the luckiest man in the world. Originally, the parents of both sides privately booked Sissi's sister Nana, but the emperor fell in love with his sister at first sight, no matter how the queen mother put pressure, the emperor was still obsessed. Now that the beautiful woman of dreams is in the arms, how can you not be ecstatic?
Franz is a standard mother-in-law man, who is obedient to his strong mother, the Queen Mother, and a strong mother must have an incompetent father and a weak son behind her. Franz's father, Archduke Karl, could only eat, drink, and sleep, and his IQ was still a bit problematic, and his mother was mainly in charge of imperial affairs.
Under Sophie's strategy, Austria successfully survived several crises, Franz sat on the throne, and the Empress Dowager was also known as "the only man in Austria", so Franz trusted and recognized his mother's ability very much, and of course the marriage was subject to her arrangement.
(Franz · Joseph I)
Seeing that her son was of the age of marriage, Sophie, who was looking for a daughter-in-law all over Europe for the sake of the royal family's façade and political interests, took a fancy to Princess Nana, the daughter of the Duke of Joseph of Bavaria, a gentle and virtuous niece, and decided that she could be a good helper to her son, and arranged a grand blind date with joy.
When Franz mustered up the courage to give the red rose to 15-year-old Sissi for the first time, against his mother's wishes, Sophie almost didn't catch her breath, and for the first time, the mother and son had a serious disagreement. Although she finally complied with her son's wishes, Sophie didn't like this unobtrusive daughter-in-law anywhere.
Duke Joseph was a casual and cheerful man, guarding the manor and land left by his family, and living an idyllic life without contention. Duchess Ludovica is the eighth sister of Queen Mother Sophie's mother, and the couple gave birth to eight children, Nana and Sisi are their pearls.
Nana and Sissi have diametrically opposite personalities. Nana is quiet and introverted, dignified, and Sissi is beautiful, lively, naughty and cute. Duke Joseph had no political ambitions, and kept his children completely free-range, and Sissi grew up as free and happy as a bird in the beautiful and fresh lake and mountains.
(Sissi's siblings)
The duke lived her little life comfortably, but the duchess was heartbroken. Her sisters are all phoenixes among people, either the queen mother or the queen, all of them have noble statuses. Only he married a little duke who was not motivated, and became a poor relative of his mother's family.
She didn't marry well, and the duchess pinned her hopes on her daughter, and the ideal thing was to marry a royal in-law. So when Princess Sissi was riding on a horse on the grass, her sister Princess Nana was receiving various training courses at home to prepare for becoming a nation in the future.
Who knew that soap was slippery, and her sister Nana, who wanted to marry into the royal family, was coldly received by the emperor at the blind date scene. Her sister Sissi, who came to make soy sauce, accidentally stole the emperor's heart and became the empress of the Austria Empire.
Empress of the Austria Empire
Sissi is used to being a queen, and she doesn't look like a queen when she is a queen, she doesn't have any rules and gestures, she treats people and things without measure, and she smiles forward and backwards with yellow teeth. Mother-in-law Sophie was so worried that she couldn't eat well and couldn't sleep well, and finally decided that she was not afraid of trouble or difficulty, and she wanted to train this wild girl into a qualified queen.
(Queen Mother Sophie)
Before Sissi's freshness passed, on-the-job training began. There is a standing posture, there is a sitting posture, there are rules for eating, there is a way to speak, you have to smile without showing your teeth, you have to raise your head and your chest high, you have to do this and that. What's worse is that no matter what she does, her mother-in-law is not satisfied, and Sissi, who has always been unrestrained, is so depressed that she can't breathe.
Sophie sighed all day long, she couldn't figure it out, since her daughter-in-law became a queen, she should learn to take on the responsibilities of the queen, how could she be like a princess of a small country, eating, drinking and having fun, and wandering around like a street runner; Sissi washed her face with tears all day long, and she couldn't figure out why she was so chic that she was unlucky to meet an evil mother-in-law, and everything had to be forced to change.
The mother-in-law quarreled with the man and suffered, and Franz's ears were never clean again. My mother said that my wife can only beautify skin care, make up and dress up, and she doesn't care about anything; My wife said that my mother was picky and difficult, and she cared about everything, like an old goblin who only chattered. Franz loved Sissi and was afraid of his mother, and he couldn't bear to blame his wife or offend his mother, so he lived like a sandwich biscuit.
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law war is staged at home every day, and the situation outside the home is also a mess. Prussia's new chancellor, Bismarck, was so bad that he stared at Austria every day for trouble; Hungary and Bohemia clamored for independence; Different nationalities within Austria are fighting fiercely. The poor emperor can't handle it at home and outside the house, and he is anxious every day.
(Franz · Joseph I)
Sophie's abilities are obvious to all, and Franz is in awe of his mother. In the contradiction between his mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, he chose to stand on his mother's side, and often persuaded Qianqian to follow the queen mother's wishes, be more restrained, and not be too presumptuous. Under Sophie's influence, the maids also whispered about the queen's various unruly words and deeds, and Sissi felt that no one understood her, and she became depressed when she was lonely and helpless.
Two years after the marriage, Sisi gave birth to two daughters in a row, which became another major crime for her, and only men in Austria can inherit the family business, so it is the duty of every daughter-in-law to have a son. Franz's uncle, Emperor Ferdinand, let him pick up the leak because he couldn't give birth to offspring.
But Sophie's husband, Archduke Karl, is not in good health, and in her words, he describes it as "not as good as drinking a bowl of broth if she is interested in women". I think Sophie did everything she could to give birth to a son, and it wasn't until six years after marriage that she gave birth to four sons one after another. Therefore, in Sophie's eyes, not being able to give birth to a son is of course a daughter-in-law's problem.
Sissi thought that the birth of her daughter would bring her some comfort, but as soon as the two children were born, she was taken away by her mother-in-law, on the grounds that "the stupid young queen has no ability to take care of the children at all". Like all evil mothers-in-law, the daughter-in-law who gave birth to a daughter does not have to consider her feelings at all.
Sissi begged her husband to reconcile and let her stay with the child. But on the one hand, Franz was afraid of his mother, and on the other hand, he also felt that his wife was young and ignorant, and his mother could not take care of the children. After several attempts to no avail, Sisi simply left and lived in Hungary.
(Princess Sissi)
Separated emperors and empresses
Sisi lives in a beautiful manor in the small town of Gödöller in Hungary, where there is no bitter melon face of the evil mother-in-law Sophie, and there are no annoying rules, and she finally breathes fresh and free air. Leaving oppressive Vienna, Sissi quickly returns to her pre-marital wild state.
It's like the spring is pressed too tightly, and the force of the rebound is amazing. Sissi, who has a free world, changed her gloom from the past, made friends everywhere, held a ball at two ends in three days, lived a life of drunken gold, and the queen's residence became a Hungary aristocratic activity club.
In order to maintain her perfect body shape, Sissi went on a fitness spree, riding horses, fencing, rings, iron dumbbells, and exercising for up to several hours a day. She is 1.7 meters tall, weighs 50 kilograms, and has a waist circumference of about 50 centimeters.
In order to maintain her beautiful appearance and fair skin, she bathed her in milk and washed her hair with brandy with eggs, and spent three hours at a time. Perhaps because of the extreme emptiness in her heart, Sissi seems to have obsessive-compulsive disorder, and she wears makeup and dresses up tirelessly and endlessly every day.
Sissi's beauty has received a lot of praise, and people have described her as "radiant" and "a miracle of beauty". When she attended her brother's wedding, she wore a white dress with a star pattern, and her hair was decorated with diamond stars, which was depicted on canvas by a painter, becoming a classic image on the screen and imitated by countless descendants.
(Princess Sissi)
Franz bought Gödler's estate and gave it to his wife, and it is now a popular tourist destination in Hungary - Princess Sisi's estate, where you can feel the fragrance and luxury of the former Empress of Austria.
The empress often ran away, and the emperor was the only one who attended various official activities, and some occasions were not in line with diplomatic etiquette, but also easy to cause bad speculation among the people, and also affected the birth of heirs. So in order to take care of the overall situation, Sissi occasionally went back to show her face and complete the queen's task.
Because she has lived in Hungary for a long time, Sisi has a special affection for this place, and the Hungary people also like her very much. In 1857, Franz and Sisi visited Hungary and were warmly welcomed by the populace. At Sissi's insistence, she brought her two young daughters, but she didn't expect that the blows and tortures in her life had just begun.
Because of the lack of adaptation and fatigue of the journey, the two daughters had high fevers, the eldest daughter, who was only two years old, had diarrhea in less than a day, and the second daughter, who was ten months old, miraculously survived. When I went, there were two granddaughters who were jumping around, and when I came back, there was only one left, and my mother-in-law Sophie's mood can be imagined.
(Sissi and her two daughters)
The two granddaughters have been taken by Sophie to be healthy, such a young child goes out of the house, it is still a relatively cold season, she originally disagreed, but her daughter-in-law is stubborn like a cow, and her son also helps her. For the sake of family harmony, Sophie decided to take a step back, but she didn't expect a granddaughter to be gone, Sophie didn't like her daughter-in-law in the first place, but now she is even more disgusted.
This time Franz did not have the face to speak for his wife, and nineteen-year-old Sisi encountered overwhelming and unprecedented accusations, and she was severely depressed, she simply broke the jar and hid in Hungary. also ignored the second daughter who survived by luck, and until the last moment of her life, the mother and daughter were still strangers.
Under the pressure of all sides, Sissi finally gave birth to the long-awaited Yaozu, and she was still the same as before, and she was taken away by her mother-in-law in her lifetime. Probably hating Wu and Wu, Sissi has always been indifferent to Yaozu, and even if her mother-in-law dies, she has no intention of repairing the mother-son relationship. Many years later, Yaozu ended his young life with a bullet, and I don't know how many regrets Sissi has in her heart as a mother.
(Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria)
The Queen's blue-faced confidante
The queen has left her post without permission for many years, the emperor can't do it, Franz has a mess to deal with, love can't be eaten, he is not Jia Baoyu, he has no time to coax Lin Daiyu's wife every day, she can live wherever she wants. Sisi also thinks that Hungary is her home, and her relationship with Hungary has become closer.
As a subordinate of the Austria Empire, Hungary was ruled by the Habsburgs from the end of the 17th century. In 1848, the France took the lead in the revolution, and the Hungary woke up like a dream: we Hungary do not lack arms and legs, why should we be inferior to Austria? I also want to make a fuss and get rid of my life.
Some progressives want to negotiate with the emperor to give Hungary a high degree of autonomy, it is not easy to see the emperor, and it is not difficult to see the empress. Among these progressives, there was one man who caught Sissi's attention: Count Andrássy, a prominent figure of the Hungary revolution and 14 years older than Sissi.
(Count Andráhi)
Born in 1823 into an aristocratic family in Hungary (the place where he was born is now part of Slovakia), Andráhi happened to encounter the European revolution when he was young, and he actively joined and became a core cadre with idealism, and then the revolution was suppressed and he fled everywhere.
The Habsburgs tried Andráhi in absentia, put him on the gallows as a mock, and pretended to hang him. Andráhi was a handsome and beautiful man, popular with aristocratic women, who playfully nicknamed him "The Handsome Hangman".
In 1857, Austria, in internal and external distress, pardoned a number of political prisoners, including Count Andrách. He returned to Hungary and continued to organize men to prepare for negotiations with the Habsburgs, and when he first saw the beautiful imperial empress Princess Sisi, he was immediately shocked. A pair of beautiful people look at each other, and the magical flower of love quietly blooms in a hidden corner.
There are many scandals about Princess Sisi and Count Andráhi in various historical sources, the emperor and empress have been separated for a long time, and have not given birth to children for ten years, and the earl has been in and out of the queen's manor freely and frequently, which adds some credibility to the ambiguous relationship between the two. Given Sissi's special status, and the paparazzi have not caught any evidence of a real hammer, it is more likely that they are in spiritual platonic love.
Sisi was very sympathetic to the revolutionaries in Hungary, and one of the reasons why the contradiction between the emperor and the revolutionaries did not further intensify was that Sisi acted as an intermediary and tried to reconcile the relationship between the two sides. Another reason is that the external environment of the empire is extremely grim, and Hungary cannot manage it.
The biggest external trouble came from Prussia, a vicious neighbor who had been eyeing Austria and who had been harassing Austria since the bad chancellor Bismarck came to power. In June 1866, the vaunted Prussia finally took action against Austria, and the famous Austro-Prussian War broke out.
Since the defeat of Napoleon by the anti-French coalition, Austria has been defeated repeatedly for decades, like a frosted eggplant, Prussia with thick eyebrows and big eyes and a tiger descending the mountain, Austria is scared of. If Hungary takes the opportunity to make trouble again, the entire empire will die, and the top priority is that the empire must unite and not fight among themselves.
The queen came in handy, and after Princess Sissi's stringing, her husband and lover finally sat down at the negotiating table. Franz agreed to sell his shares, and Hungary became an imperial shareholder, on an equal footing with Austria. In 1867, the Austria Empire became Austria-Hungary, and one of the eight-nation coalition forces that invaded China in 1900 was it.
The Austro-Hungarian Empire was a rare dual empire in the history of the world, that is, the two kingdoms were separate except for the unification of diplomacy, military and customs. The legal representative of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was also Austria, and Count Andráş became the first Prime Minister of Hungary and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Reich.
A travel expert who has traveled the world
In her later years, Sissi gradually faded out of the public's sight, and she found a new way of emotional sustenance, that is, to travel the world. She has traveled to Bavaria, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal and even Morocco and Algeria in North Africa. In order to keep a low profile, Sissi always wears a black dress and covers her face with a sun umbrella, with only a small number of attendants following.
No matter how much the queen hides her whereabouts, she can't hide it from the professional paparazzi, and when Sissi stays at a hotel in Geneva, the news about her has already been in the gossip tabloids. In Sissi's aimless wanderings, the shadow of death crept in on her.
One day in September 1898, Sissi and her maid were on a lake in Geneva, Switzerland, preparing to board a boat back to Vienna, when a young man suddenly rushed over, thinking that she had come to grab a watch, and the young man punched her in the chest and ran away. Sissi felt a tingling in her chest, and in order not to delay the trip, she still endured the pain and boarded the ship on time.
(Sisi was assassinated in Switzerland)
The pain became more and more acute, and Sissi soon fainted, and the maids took off her clothes, found a small blood stain on the tights, and immediately turned the ship back to Geneva. Doctors examined her and found that a very thin aper needle had pierced Sissi's heart, and with the restraint of the corset, the blood could barely circulate.
The doctor cut open the wound, blood gushed out, and an hour later, the doctor declared that he was powerless. On September 10, 1898, Princess Sissi died peacefully in a coma due to excessive blood loss at the age of 61.
The perpetrator was an angry young man in Italy who wanted to assassinate Philippe, Duke of Orleans in France, but the duke left Geneva ahead of schedule and the assassination plan fell through. Anyway, idle is idle, I heard that the Empress of Austria is also here, if you can't kill the duke, then kill the Empress, and the innocent Sisi has become a ghost under the knife.
When the telegram of his wife's death reached Vienna, Franz was slumped in an armchair. He said slowly, slowly, "In this world, I have nothing left. He looked out the window, and his voice gradually became softer: "No one knows how much I love her." ”
(Sissi's funeral)
During the long period of separation, Franz never stopped thinking about his wife, and he insisted on writing letters to Sissi. During the eight years from 1890 to 1898, Sissi wandered all over the world, and Franz still wrote more than 470 letters to Sissi, an average of every week, and the image of a husband who loved his wife deeply came to life.
Franz has tasted the ups and downs of his life, and since he took over this stormy empire, he has been forcibly put on the stage of history. The declining empire suffered one defeat after another, first by the Kingdom of Sardinia, losing Italy, and then by Prussia and squeezing out of the German Confederation. The crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire was like a rope that strangled him out of breath.
Franz also suffered in his personal life. My mother and wife have always been like fire and water, and he has been a firefighter for decades; The younger brother was the emperor of Mexico for three years and was shot by a military court, and he wanted to comfort his elderly mother; Later, his mother passed away, and he lost the spiritual support that helped him; Later, his only son committed suicide by drinking a bullet, and he experienced the pain of losing a child in old age; Now his lover is gone away from him......
(Franz and Sissi)
Princess Sissi forever
Sissi's life has not been happy, maybe this sudden death can save her from the despair that this world has brought her. Or maybe she didn't know how lucky she was, her noble status, her love for her husband, and her luxurious life were all out of reach of others. Fortunately or unfortunately, who can say clearly?
Half a century later, Austria actress Romy · Schneider's "Sissi Trilogy" made her a god in the hearts of thousands of people. People remembered her beauty and called her "Forever Sissi". However, is the real Sissi really that perfect?
Sissi hated her mother-in-law Sophie for depriving her of her freedom, and she described her mother-in-law as follows: "I'm fed up with that vicious woman! Everything I do is wrong, she is constantly criticizing all the people I love, and she will keep digging up all the things about you. ”
But is Sophie really wrong? Now that Sissi has accepted the role of empress, she must learn to be a qualified empress and assist the emperor's husband in governing the country. The simple-minded Sissi is only interested in dressing up and having fun, and refuses to learn even the most basic social etiquette, how can she be a queen?
Metternich is a famous politician in Austria, loyal to the empire is widely used, the beautiful Sisi actually looks down on Metternich's granddaughter, laughs at people for being ugly and ugly with heavy makeup, and the other party also sarcastically mocks her for her low birth. Look, how can this look like a queen?
Having spent half her life traveling the world, refusing to fulfill her duties as empress, finding ways to evade official obligations, and demanding that Austria pay for her huge beauty and travel expenses. With this ideological awareness, let alone being a queen, being an ordinary duchess is not qualified, right? Co-authoring freedom is not to work but to take money, what do you want, and then let others pay for your selfishness and willfulness?
Sissi's two daughters (and a daughter later)
Sissi is not only incompetent as a queen, but also incompetent as a mother. When her mother-in-law Sophie died, Sissi's children were still minors, and she was indifferent until she died, and her daughter did not reconcile with her; Later, her son's suicide was not unrelated to her indifference and selfishness. Sissi was tortured by her mother-in-law when she was young, and after her daughter-in-law became a mother-in-law for many years, she tortured her daughter-in-law with heinous means.
After his death, Sisi entered the ancestral grave of the Habsburg family, and Franz lived until the First World War, and in 1916, at the age of 86, he went to heaven with his attachment to his deceased wife to follow the once bright sunshine. And the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which he had fought for all his life, was exhausted, and the Habsburg Dynasty, the family ancestral business that had been in business for 600 years, would also be wiped out!
(Princess Sissi in the movie)
(Princess Sissi in the movie)
(Princess Sissi in the movie)