ANNIE_S
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I thank my 'obsession' to royals because of this fascinating lady.
Me too!!
I thank my 'obsession' to royals because of this fascinating lady.
Me too!!
Do you also have the desire to go back in time and just have a talk with her? A minute looking at her to know how she really looked like would be enough.I thank my 'obsession' to royals because of this fascinating lady.
Me too!!
I think there is so much more about her that nobody knows, only she did.
Yes, I do. But I would need more much than a minute to talk with her!! =)Do you also have the desire to go back in time and just have a talk with her? A minute looking at her to know how she really looked like would be enough.
I think there is so much more about her that nobody knows, only she did.
Cocaine was widely used by physicians at that time as a medicine, even for very simple diseases such as a cold or to treat fever. It was later, at the beginning of the 20th century, whne doctors realised it was very dangerous and higly addictive and its use was restrained. I wonder why Sissi used it. It was of course prescribed then for everyday ailments such as lasting headaches and migraines....http://www.bda.at/image/tn450x_689717456.jpg
Can somebody clarify this for me? Apparantely this is Sissi's cocaine box. Did they use that back then?
In October 1864, when Elisabeth thought her beauty in full blossom, she sat for Franz Winterhalter. A famous portrait shows the Empress in a white ball dress studded with embroidered petals and crowned by the elaborately plaited hairstyle, decked on this occassion with diamond stars. Winterhalter succeeded in making her look both magnificently imperial and shyly imperious. But at the the same time Winterhalter painted two more portraits of Elisabeth, each with her hair hanging down over shoulders loosely draped by a simple flowing white gown. These portraits Franz Joseph kept on the wall of his study for the next half-century of his life.
Though rigidly bound by disciplined codes of behavior himself, [Franz Joseph] was ready to show a generous complaisance towards his wife's moods. And thus, almost casually, he set standards [towards her that were much more lenient than those he applied to others] to which he was to adhere in later years, too. For however much her self-indulgent whims might try his patience, throughout their married life the Emperor loved Elisabeth's individuality so intensely that he never tried in earnest to curb the firebird's flight.
Once back in Austria [in the fall of 1887] the Empress amused her ladies (and mildly embarrassed Valerie) by snide remarks over Katharina's robust figure. The Emperor's devotion to his friend ran deeper than Elisabeth had thought possible during their visit to Angeli's studio [who painted the actress' portrait for Franz Joseph]; and her feelings towards Katharina may have been a shade less generous than is suggested by those open avowals of friendship which her husband found so gratifying. Some verses [of Elisabeth's poetry] have survived which mock Franz Joseph's delight in what Elisabeth implies was a feigned simplicity of manner on the part of the actress. But she, too, needed Frau Schratt--for by mid-October the Empress was off again, sailing down to Corfu. It was good to know her husband would not fret in her absence. Almost every letter from him during this period of separation refers to walks or talks with the "War Minister" (their code name for Katharina) or includes news from the Viennese theatre world. When Elisabeth rejoined him at Godollo [a hunting lodge in Hungary] in time for St. Catherine's Day (25 November) it was she who ordered champagne to drink the absent friend's health on her saint's day. "I was really surprised to see champagne glasses set on the table," the Emperor wrote to Katharina, "We do not usually permit ourselves the luxury of this wine."
It´s said that he had a daughter, Helene, with his mistress Anna NahowskiWhat are the names of all the known illegetimate children of Emp. Franz Josef?
By the way, Katherine Schratt's famous grand niece is the actress Shelly Winters, born Shirley Schrift.
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It´s said that he had a daughter, Helene, with his mistress Anna Nahowski
Anna:Nahowski, Anna
Franz Joseph...was in these years deeply entangled in the seamiest personal relationship of his life. One morning in June 1875, soon after returning from Dalmatia, he was taking his customary early exercise in the Schonbrunn parkland when he met a young and attractive blonde, who was standing beside the artificial "Roman ruin" statuary about a quarter of a mile from the palace. It is probable that Anna Nahowski, the newly married sixteen year old wife of a railway official, had every hope of accosting the Emperor: for why otherwise did she, too, decide to take a walk on her own at 6 AM in the vicinity of Schonnbrun, where Franz Joseph was known to be in residence? Her tactics were successful. Throughout the months when Elisabeth was in Bavaria or Greece, France or England or Ireland, the Emperor looked for consolation to the plump, blonde Anna and found it...It is hard to believe that the businesslike Anna, meticulously noting down in her journal thirteen years of visits, kindled flames of passion; at best she offered the comforting warmth of passing sensuality to a middle-aged man isolated from human contacts. Before the end of the decade [the 1880s], she became an embarrasment for him. But there was no public speculation about the affair; discretion, and ready money, kept the secret for a hundred years or more.
At Schonbrunn he could at least still seek the company of Anna Nahowski. His visits became especially frequent in 1884 when--still aged only 25--she moved to her spacious new house at Hietzing, opposite to the side gate of Schonbrunn's "Tyrolean Garden." In the welfare of one of Anna's children, Helene (who was to marry the composer, Alban Berg) he took some interest, giving the mother the very considerable sum of 100,000 Gulden when, in 1883, the girl was born. But though Anna might satisfy Franz Joseph's physical desires, she seems to have been a young woman of limited interests: did they ever have a real conversation? There is no doubt that he tired of her and it is probable that, as he grew older, he found the twenty-nine year gap in their ages increasingly exacting, although he did not finally break with Anna until the end of the decade.
Thanks, that's great information and just the kind I was hoping for. I wonder how daring the assassination was though if they didn't have any body guards? Maybe body guards for royalty came into being much later. I guess his mother didn't have any body guards either when she was assassinated.