The reluctant empress known as "Sisi" painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would ...

The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and ...

Sissi's mother, Duchess Ludovika, goes to Vienna to implore her sister, Archduchess Sophie, to give the baby back to Sissi.

The Sisi Museum offers insights both into the grandeur of the Habsburgs and into the life and death of Vienna's beloved Empress Elizabeth. You can also explore the Imperial Apartments ...

In the final part of the trilogy, Sissi is forced to return to Vienna to avoid Count Andrassy's advances. However, there she contracts a potentially fatal case of tuberculosis.