Empress Elisabeth Was Exquisite, Vicious-And Doomed

Privileged, precise, and punishingly beautiful, Elisabeth of Bavaria rose to become Empress consort of the Austrian Empire at the height of its powers, and has remained one of the nation’s most beloved figures. Yet behind her exquisite façade lies a lifetime of pain, violence, and an unimaginably tragic end.
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[@Brightangel55]

She obviously inherited some mental instability from her family but what a pressured life and unexpected death. She sounds unbalanced, even cruel wth her own offspring. It's fascinating how her son's suicide led to a change in the order of succession and then to the catalyst that ignited WW1 Thanks for your very interesting presentation 😊

[@exdus235]

Excellent presentation. Your voice-over is so pleasing, and the soft, un-obtrusive music is highly appreciated. Loved the images that charted the compelling story. 👌

[@huolalupin6008]

I’ll second that. The whole thing was beautifully done and what a fascinating subject!

[@peterlbaldwin511]

So often it seems that, the lives of renowned international beauties through out history, have been blighted by unhappiness and tragedy...

[@wardarcade7452]

Poor Sisi and her cousin 'Mad King' Ludwig weren't the only ones in their family with issues. Princess Alexandra of Bavaria (1826-1875) was an accomplished writer and intellect. However, for reasons never clear, she somehow convinced herself that, as a child, she had swallowed a grand piano made of glass- and nothing anyone else could say could persuade her otherwise!

[@ir9567]

Dear god!

[@kerryannmoor5908]

I love your narrative style and wit. I wish you were always the storyteller 😊

[@WyomingGuy876]

I agree, the other narrators get on my nerves

[@PC-dc1kv]

Fascinating story! Thank you 😊

[@user-xw7ie6jv2x]

This is a really fascinating biography of someone I'd never heard of before. The artwork is well chosen and the video clips are appropriate to the narrative. Far better than many other potted biographies I've seen on KZbin. Well done!

[@bernoch1113]

My experience with coughing fits was due to stresses around my husband. Once I asked him to leave my coughing stopped..

[@carolmanning8367]

Hi, Louise Hayes wrote books on how we create our illnesses & how to heal. I.e skin conditions, who or what is getting under your skin. Lung conditions feeling stifled & not feeling good enough to breath. Obviously she believed in orthodox medicine but to look at causes. As a nurse I found it an enlightening read.

[@XiaoGuanYin104]

It is simple: the throat grows less flexible when the person is stressed. The tension in the vocal cords causes coughing.

[@nicolecampbell208]

Interesting... Mine wasn't just coughing, but intense heartburn, top and bottom gastric explosions, loss of appetite, super fast weight loss. We discovered after the husband and foster child left - it was a case of poisoning.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

@@nicolecampbell208 What? That’s attempted murder. Did he go to prison? And what happened to the foster child? Are you alright now? Sorry for all the questions.❤️

[@pickettywitchoriginal]

@@user-fq8rs7rz3iall questions I’m thinking of too.

[@beadmore]

I love to listen to stories of European royalty and celebrated personalities. The pictures are beautiful too. I like to know what made these people "tick" what they thought of their contemporaries and how they lived their lives. Simple living was much harder for individuals even if they were royals. War, food shortages, no penicillin, and civil unrest in many populations could cause so much danger and tragedy. Thank you for your interesting video.😊

[@maymalone1505]

Yeaaaaaaaaaah ud feel really sorry for these type of people 😮

[@sherrillsturm7240]

I came across a statue of her in Strasburg, Austria, and was surprised by the beauty of her face and royal elegance. I imagined and hoped she had a wonderful life. How sad.

[@newmercies1]

Comes to show beauty power and money doesn't bring happiness, she got everything too early in her life, but there is always a price to pay. I feel sorry for her children, unloved and unwanted. So sad.

[@sarahholland2600]

Those portraits of all the main players ,were breathtaking. What a fascinating story. Loving this channel.

[@SyIe12]

Sisi did not "Rule", she try to avoid Viena and her representative duties as much as posible so she traveled most of the time.

[@Sowhat300]

PTSD at sixteen.

[@sarahholland2600]

Agree. No wonder the present she most loved was a parrot. Unconditional love & companionship in a strange, scary new world must have been a Godsend for a shy introvert.

[@patricialong5767]

She had a life of tragedy and sorrow, poor thing!

[@Katclem77]

"The Kris Jenner of her time" --- 😂🤣😄 That had to suck for the Empress.

[@user-fq8rs7rz3i]

What happened to KJ?

[@sophiegeorge2816]

Not all Sophie’s are evil Some of us are quite nice

[@anastasia10017]

2:46 that portrait of Anna of Prussia is fantastic.

[@msdsplayground8360]

Thank you for sharing

[@jenkor513]

This is what happens when first cousins marry

[@Recartloaded]

Not really it happened everywhere back then there was thousands of different stories that ended differently, I think you’re ignorant about history. It was actually a societal norm back then, prince Henry of Prussia and princess Irene of Hesse by Rhine were first cousins and they had a “normal” marriage this had been going on in royal and aristocratic circles for centuries. Not defending it but it I just know a lot of history.

[@realtruthhurts8851]

Multi-Generational Inbreeding was a major cause of mental health issues. Even today, UK King Chuckie is 13 % Inbred following the documented royal lineage. Hell he’s also related to current wife Camilla. Talk about keeping everything within the family!

[@ir9567]

It's the same for ppl who came from small villages over generations', you tend to intermarry if you stick to what you know.

[@vel230]

And you have probably dated a cousin or two.....

[@dsantamaria713]

People have been mentally unstable ever since the Dawn of time, and they aren't getting any better ...

[@ir9567]

Maybe they shouldn't? Why are the problem ones because we are sensitive to our surroundings and not a slave to cold ruthless societal conformity.

[@vel230]

​@@ir9567She could have run away to join the circus but still wouldn't be happy. No matter where you go, there you are.....she wallowed in her unhappiness.

[@1964_AMU]

The House of Bavaria produced a few autistic individuals. Sissi's father was one exemple of obsessive occupations and weird interests.

[@ChannieTypeO-]

I love her. I have for a long time. Thanks for this video.

[@noeraldinkabam]

Romy Schneider had her own tragic life.

[@davidrubin8228]

A very tragic woman and the mental history of her family and her descendants is a strong indication of mental illness within the Wittelsbach dynasty. This illness was passed on to her son Rudolf. It is perhaps sad but honest that it is thankful Rudolf did not have a male son as if so, the illness perhaps could have continued. RIP dear lady.

[@deanedge5988]

Brilliantly illustrated and sophisticated account- interesting that we are left to speculate about the surely rather fascinating ethnicity of Bay Middleton.

[@user-ze6sg9yg9u]

She really aged very gracefully and looked beautiful until the last , because she didn’t look very old at the time of her murder (she was in her 60s).

[@edithsnelgrosnelgro7326]

Just brings me to tears...Bless people like you!!!!

[@heatherbowlan1961]

Thank you , very enjoyable

[@ralphe5842]

To many cousin in the gene pool

[@katarinatibai8396]

💯💯💯

[@LintuLumessa]

BTW. There is a Netflix Series about her that came out last year called "The Empress".

[@heidibee501]

As l understand it the monster who murdered her so brutally and efficiently, originally had another Royal in mind but he did not show up, so poor Sisi served as a substitute. I believe her son's death occasioned the Archduke Ferdinand to become Franz Josef's next heir to the throne. A literal conspiracy in Serbia caused a Serbian terrorist, Gavrilo Princip to murder the Archduke and his wife after they were lured to Serbia and WWI followed.

[@user-ze6sg9yg9u]

Her assassin didn’t care what royal he murdered. This was an ego driven decision. It didn’t matter what nationality, whether it be French, Austrian, German Russian, or British, he didn’t care., He would’ve been okay with anyone with a title. He only wanted to become a political martyr. Unfortunately, he was very stupid because Switzerland had just abolished the death penalty. After he murdered the Empress, he insisted on being extradited to Italy, so he could be put to death for his crime and die a martyr. To his chagrin, this was absolutely refused. He was given a life sentence instead. Therefore, he murdered her for nothing. Nevertheless, he didn’t care who it was going to be. He just wanted to murder someone to be famous, and Sisi’s death was purely happenstance.

[@bethbartlett5692]

The thought of "precision teachings of the negative , the "Human Ego Mind, aka Lower Mind, aka Adolescent Mind" with an added attention to arrogance), all of which attracts like energies: negative, fear based, undesirable, etc. Positive Energies and Wisdom are found in the "Higher Mind aka Mature Mind". ☀️🔑💛

[@nancygonzales4929]

So many of these symptoms of this young lady are exactly the same as Princess Diana

[@kake2290]

Her daughter Gisela was very beautiful i don't even understand how she could look at her and not think so

[@annedonker4795]

she sounds like a terrible person, her poor daughter Gisela!

[@desireedejong1988]

Good story,nice voice, very good told,but the music is a little bit to load.

[@LintuLumessa]

Austrian over here: Her nickname was actually "Lissy" and not "Sissy". "Sissy" was an invention by media that became the common nickname later on.

[@brianm4178]

It's usually the girls who's mother makes it clear she doesn't think shes attractive, that ends up amazingly attractive 😂

[@marionwallsten7507]

Her husband had an affair with a lover for 20 years after he got married to Sissi.

[@countbenjamin1442]

Does the portrait at 3:04 into the video remind anyone of Queen Elizabeth II? Not exactly lile but a resemblance

[@drunaisis9797]

It is so interesting how whole nations are effected by few mentaly disturbed narcissists, feeling sorry for them is beyond my mind 🤯 why anybody would feel sorry for a woman on power obsessed with herself?!

[@maymalone1505]

Yep😮

[@sarahholland2600]

Because women then were nothing more than pawns , used to make alliances with other dynasties. Consigning a 16 yr old to an arranged marriage in a strange country is quite horrific really. Especially in the light of recent research that found contrary to previously held theory, children's brains dont fully mature re decision making, impulse control & consequences until age 25. So inflicting that trauma on a 16 yr old is never going to end well.

[@Recartloaded]

She didn’t have any power because queen consort don’t have any power at all it’s all their husbands and she wasn’t a narcissist stop trying to diagnose a random woman you barely know anything about,the reason why she was so obsessed with her looks was because people would shame her if she started looking differently or if she gained weight, and her physical appearance was the only thing she could ever control in her life she couldn’t even name her own children when she was forced to have them at a young age.as later on she founded the Hungarian constitution and fought for the rights of Hungarians and Lombards. You really don’t know that much about her.

[@Recartloaded]

@@maymalone1505 nope

[@maymalone1505]

@@Recartloaded don't be silly!

[@puppetguy8726]

I named my cat Sissi after her 😊

[@exdus235]

🐱

[@randalturner6234]

I liked the video but why did you choose Berlioz Symphonie fantastique for music?

[@pumpupjam9648]

She never wanted to be held down and be empress. She was a free soul. Sometimes way to free.

[@judithsullivan9703]

Tge palace life caused her stress, life did, got sold for strategy..to a breed cow for Frigid Freddie then the narrator stated she took it out on him, this perspective is nuts!

[@marylou3995]

Money & position - not worth it , I’ll take my little life thank you.

[@ruthmeb]

The tight lacing photo has been retouched for exaggeration. They were never that tight.

[@weaviejeebies]

Nobody who needed to walk across a room or stand for more than 5 sec would lace like that if it's even possible. It didn't take long after photography came around that people realized it was great for discreet sexual gratification. Many tightlaced or other lingerie photos of that era don't give us any indecency shock or titillation now, but they were absolutely intentional porn. Manipulating them to stoke a fetish was easy to do and probably pretty common. My college anthropology prof said the super cinching photos are a way of transforming everyday boring undergarments into a "good girl who is a bad girl in the bedroom" fantasy, much like fishnets vs pantyhose, with a bit of BDSM going on too.

[@tabithas1554]

❤

[@deadlykitten.5908]

Can anyone tell me what the beautiful choral music is called.

[@MausMasher54]

Take a look at the Horse's eyes in the 1st picture, something is not good by that look....

[@tessdurberville711]

Animals know.

[@pickettywitchoriginal]

She looked a little like Elizabeth Taylor.

[@jenniferirwin82]

She looks nothing like her even though they were both beautiful.

[@pickettywitchoriginal]

@@jenniferirwin82 I think she did in some photos, not a double of anything. But she looks similar to me.

[@DanielaClemmons]

She had a small tattoo on her shoulder. An anchor.

[@mejustme71]

Please tell the story in a linear fashion.

[@judithsullivan9703]

Why is it that the most beautiful women in history are always rich...did never anyone look at a little poor urchin and say hey look at that face? LOL

[@thejudge8892]

Germns ruling the Great Britain, how funny .

[@Recartloaded]

You don’t know anything about history, those “Germans” were chosen because they were the last remaining Protestant relatives and they were also chosen because they were descendants of the Stuarts old Scottish kings and old English kings.

[@venanziocalise946]

​@Recartloaded ...the judge has to be an American to make that statement. They do not even know their own history. Irony.

[@lbrowning2543]

Better watch out for those parrots given as gifts, harrowing!

[@anastasia10017]

OMG. stop butchering Gisela's name. it is pronounced Jee- zel -a .

[@jo-annbastings]

Elizabeth was most probably bipolar.

[@Faro-tb3sk]

😂. The Austrian Empires height of power… More like a steady fall down!

[@brober]

Much like Princess Diana.

[@XiaoGuanYin104]

Not at all. Diana loved Charles but he cheated on her quite openly with his firmer over.

[@DemelzaBoing]

@@XiaoGuanYin104 That`s true, but although Diana was a lovely person, she was no saint. She also had lovers during their marriage. I don`t blame her, she was very lonely, and not very emotionally mature or stable.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Both insane slags.

[@ASideshowJourney]

In real life, I'm her doppelganger. My German mother pointed this out to me.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

You got a phone number?? 😉

[@Snakesnarl]

I don’t think it’s pronounced Geez-Ella

[@missg.5940]

If you are using a germanic pronunciation it is exactly that

[@everlynevins]

That's exactly how you pronounce it in German speaking countries. - I'm a German in Germany. Gee-zella, Gee-zilla, Gee-sella is all correct.

[@Savetheworldfirebidennow]

Probably a dude