Sisi‘s Tragic Ending
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- This year marks the 125th anniversary of the assassination of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Her death spread widespread grief and shock across Europe. Throughout the Austro-Hungarian Empire as well as in other countries in Europe a period of mourning was arranged and memorial services were held. Her assassination prompted nations to increase their security measures and take additional precautions to protect their head of state against anarchists and political radicals. Many people began seeing the anarchists as a threat to social order and stability. The public outcry against anarchism rose.
Empress Elisabeth or Sisi, how she is commonly remembered today left this world with a lasting legacy. As she did not pose for photographs after her mid 30s her youthful beauty is locked in people’s minds up until this day. Her looks and fashion sense laid the foundation for many books, movies and TV series. She somehow seemed like a tragic but yet so mystical figure, who struggled with the royal life she was pushed into.
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Two unsettling footnotes to this senseless assassination: one is the one can see a life-sized abstract metal statue of the Empress Elisabeth marking the exact spot on the Geneva Quay on Lake Geneva/Leman where she was fatally stabbed. BTW, it's within sight of the start of the lake's outflow which becomes the Rhone River.
The 2nd footnote is that in Vienna's Hofburg Palace, there is a permanent exhibit of 'Sisi' detailing her life until its grisly end and on display in that exhibit is the very file that Luigi Lucheni used to end her life! Ironically, the Empress had always felt extremely uncomfortable in Hofburg Palace but even more tragically, she was still in deep mourning over her only son Rudolf's death nine years earlier - an apparent murder-suicide!
I've studied Sisi's life and history for years. What is never overlooked is her body dysmorphia and her extreme obsession with maintaining a very low body weight. However, I've never heard her weight reported as anything less than 108lbs. 94??? It's remarkable that Sisi was even able to hold herself up, let alone walk!
I'm also 5'8" and my weight fluctuates between 109 and 115lbs. I'm extremely thin (not deliberately) and I have to pay close attention to when my body weight gets down to a certain point. I literally FEEL my body struggling to stay functional. My hip, collar, and rib bones poke out and the skin gets sore or even bruised against my clothing, I have heart palpitations, my muscles feel like wet noodles, my body can't regulate its temperature so I go between shivering and sweating in an instant and then back again, my hair gets dry and brittle because my body is using its own fat for more important reasons than beauty and it breaks and falls out, and I get very tired. For a 5lb weight loss that I didn't do on purpose (chronic illness, medication side effects, etc.).
It just makes my mind reel that poor Sisi was my height, and at one point weighed 15lbs LESS than me at my lowest and worst weight, but she still managed to....LIVE? Survive? Did she ever really thrive? How was she even existing? Years of doing this to herself, I suppose. It's so incredibly sad. 😢
Poor wee soul. I hope you make a full recovery 🙂
She was so young and vulnerable then she found out suddenly, she was marrying Joseph instead of her older sister. I mean, she loved her sister, so how awkward was that? Her sister had the chiselled features of her mother, Ludovika, and quite hard looking especially in black, and when also compared to Elizabeth who was typically a Witselbach in appearance,. The sister was a sweet and good lady though without the mental fragility that would later manifest in Sisi, and she would later make a good and happy marriage, so that is good.
This sudden engagement pressure could of contributed to the triggering of obsessive behaviours and why she started to turn out to be bit of an odd duck in later life. But, it should be noted that her extended family's biological history harboured a lot of cousin marriages and produced a fair share of odd ducks! Indeed, her cousin King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who Sisi closely resembled, was wildly eccentric, and his younger brother was clearly mentally handicapped.
Yes, a lot of cousin marriages over centuries.
Lovely video on Empress Sissi. Educational and delightful. Thank you 🙏🏻
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A truly beautiful lady, sadly she never knew true happiness, thank you superb as always.
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Sisi was an attractive Imperial and royal woman and sadly she was murdered by a crazed Italian man and that is so sad and evil 👿
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She was related to all the royals of Europe.
😢😢16 years old...to cope with court,the pressure of giving birth to boys..You can see why she got mental health problems...We can have all the money in the world...but Love and Happiness seem to evade some😢
As always fantastically intriguing and historically educational video.🌸
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Excellent video. Love them. Keep up the great work. 😎👍 Peace ✌🏻
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She always wanted to die that way. That's what she write years prior
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1:35 Slight correction, I don't believe Elisabeth was ever called Sisi during her life. If memory serves, the nickname stuck after a movie or TV show about her life became popular.
Source: tour guides in Vienna and Budapest
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