📱 eBook en inglés THE RELUCTANT EMPRESS

The real-life tale behind Netflixs Empress Sisi and the Anarchist, whose assassination in 1898 shocked the world.

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, known to her family as Sisi, belongs to a famous love story of European royalty. In 1853 the Emperor Franz Josef, the most eligible bachelor in Europe, fell in love with her at first sight when she was 15. They were married the next year. On the surface, it was a fairy-tale marriage, all the more poignant, with hindsight, because her tragic death augured the twilight years of the Habsburg Empire.

First published in 1988, Brigitte Hamanns definitive biography tells Elisabeths story from her birth into Bavarian nobility to her assassination at the hands of an Italian anarchist. In her lifetime she was idolised solely for her grace and beauty; but Hamann shows us a stronger character, bitter at her marriage, seeking independence, and struggling against the powerful influence of her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie.