How Beautiful was Empress Sisi of Austria?

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[@HeatherLandon227]

Thank you for actually being realistic about corsets. Tight-lacing wasn't normal even back then and I loved that you put that in.

[@hardyquinn9442]

Most definitely NOT normal. How I feel for those women...ugh.

[@misshoneymoon]

Extreme tight lacing is totally different to wearing a corset for just pulling in the waist. They are not uncomfortable and they are very good for posture.

[@ManiacalBlueberry]

@@misshoneymoon depends on the person. I don't even like close fitted t shirts

[@GiulyHermi96]

Yeah no… corsets beliefs such as “omg women are tightening them so much they’re getting sick” is a male gaze situation. Basically men back then used this propaganda and women couldn’t defend the use of the garment, although it wasn’t that big of a deal. Obviously some people (such as Sisi) might exaggerate the tightening, but corsets were not negative for a woman’s body. As others said before me, it’s a fake news since they were actually really good for the posture. Moreover, they wouldn’t be uncomfortable since underneath women used to wear chamises. So, although they were tightened, skin wouldn’t get ruined or held too tight. It’s basically just a male chronicle that was told back then. It’s basically like if men told today that menstrual cups are dangerous because they prevent women to pee 😂 They don’t know how certain things work and they want to mensplain 🤷🏻‍♀️😂 (plus, Hollywood made us believe that corsets were basically objects of torture).

[@RJLbwb]

There was a big push back against tight corsets as early as the 1860s, which makes it all the more strange a woman so concerned about her heath was doing that.

[@joycefroney6162]

The life of Royals always looks wonderful from outside...

[@ChibiProwl]

Yep. Poor Sisi had her children taken from her and raised by her mother in law. She only got to raise her final child, Marie Valerie. Poor devil.🥺🥺

[@k.v.7681]

@@ChibiProwl It wasn't that uncommon at the time. Nobility didn't really "raise" their children. They enjoyed their presence for function. The good moments. Most actual duties of parentage as we know them were left to the help. She wasn't "separated from her daughters". She was banned from tea time with her daughters. Not saying it isn't hard, but feelings of parental love and the conception of education was very different at the time.

[@belindahawkins4083]

Excellent comm

[@dopplerdog6817]

Still better than the life of the peasants they mooched off, otherwise they would have gladly given up their wealth to change places with them.

[@hardyquinn9442]

Unless you charles II

[@donald8066]

She was not only riding, she was considered one of the best riders in Europa, learning from the best teachers and even from famous artist from the Circus.

[@greenshp]

Sisi was greatly famed for her beautiful hair, and it was reported that her husband was especially enamoured of her hair.

[@GiulyHermi96]

Yup! He also had a portrait of Sisi with her hair let down in his office

[@Arcaryon]

@@GiulyHermi96 It is the first one in the video. There is also a second one in a similar style.

[@amypagekaviani5661]

It must have been a sight to see!

[@stannetaprospere4301]

If he loved her he would not have allowed her children to be taken from her, not when he saw how much she suffered because of it. Loving the way someone looks is not the same as loving them.

[@gorillajoe999]

That's how I am with my wife lol her hair is gorgeous

[@MikaelaKMajorHistory]

Sisi’s life went from being so free to so strict and sad. She wasn’t even allowed to raise her own children and her firstborn was named after her aunt without permission. She could only see them once a day for about 20-30 min while always in her aunt’s supervision. Her husband felt bad but like this video says, because he was a momma’s boy, he only spoke about it with his mother once and never fought about it. I can only imagine the melancholy and depression during her life.

[@centurycountess4949]

I would love to see empress Wu, the only female emperor of china come to life, there is a portrait of her and a giant statue of a Buddha which was modeled from her face, but these are the only two things I know of that were taken from life.

[@buttercxpdraws8101]

Yes 👍🏻

[@chykim1]

Yes good one!!

[@malenamartinez4415]

Wu T'ser Tien?

[@centurycountess4949]

@@malenamartinez4415 yes

[@wrendum286]

Sameeee

[@grellimichaelis6844]

Most people here saying that she wasn't even that beautiful seem to forget two very important things: 1. Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder! And 2. Beauty standards change overtime and for the times back then she was extraordinarily beautiful

[@SilverGreenEyes18]

Or they're just jelly?

[@grellimichaelis6844]

@@SilverGreenEyes18 that's also possible

[@sweetvonbettie1]

She was beautiful ..wtf are ppl talking about.

[@KCohere33]

I think she was a natural beauty, which you don’t see too often nowadays. Her hair alone makes up for a lot.

[@essies4294]

There were less beautiful people back then❤

[@daisybornheimastro2942]

Sisi came from a beautiful family, seriously. Her mother and all of her aunts were pretty (incl Archduchess Sophie who was even a member of the famed "Schönheitengalerie" (in German: gallery of beauties) and er Dad was handsome., too. One of her grandmothers was also considered to be pretty and her great-grandfather was considered to be one of the most beautiful men at his time. So she had some good genes running through her body.

[@feliciaboston6365]

That is a lie. I just googled those names. They were below average but ssisi’s hair enhanced her look

[@lauralaladarling3775]

Thank you so much. She's extremely beautiful but how cruel and tragic her 2 daughters were removed from her and then her baby son. Her mother in law was an evil control freak by the sounds of it. At least she kept one baby daughter. What a tragic life she endured. But how interesting regards her focus on being slim, the compulsive excerising, eating tiny amounts of food are symptoms of Anorexia. I'm not surprised it's the only thing she could control within the court. Xxc

[@Lyrielonwind]

She could had suffered of stomach or wovel disorders too.

[@kathi3093]

No, she was simply not interested in her kids, the only good thing she did for Rudolf is to choose his teachers, who were really good for him. But other than that she was absent

[@eburel506]

And distance herself from her family. Her husband did have two mistresses when she pulled away from him to. So sad she struggled so much. Thankfully we have better mental health nowadays.

[@grellimichaelis6844]

@@kathi3093 That is not completely true. She grew cold and distant from Gisela and Rudolf after Sofie died because she never got over her death. With Marie Valerie however she had a very strong bond and spent a lot of time with her. Many people think that's because she then started to realize how much she missed out on with her other children and wanted "to make up for it". Also when Rudolf commited suicide that was one of the most tragic events in Sisi's life. After that she only wore black anymore.

[@visenyatargaryen9130]

Her mother in law = her aunt. LOL

[@angeladillinger5960]

What a life!! I had no idea it was so full of tragedy and also her travels. I actually visited in Vienna the palace where she. And her husband lived. I was fascinated by her personal gym next to her bedroom. A fascinating woman Thankyou fir insight.

[@John_Fugazzi]

She was ahead of her time. It shocked the aristocracy that an Empress would exercise and have a gym.

[@gretahassock8914]

I think they knew how Rudolph died but it was covered up I think he was killed

[@GiulyHermi96]

@@gretahassock8914 it actually looked more like a homicide-suicide situation. He was found with a pistol in his hand and his fiance was also shot. Who knows what really happened, but Rudolph was too a very miserable soul 😓

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

@@GiulyHermi96 _mistress_ rather than fiancee. He was actually married to Princess Stephanie of Belgium and had a daughter with her. Baroness Mary V. was... one of his fun pieces.

[@sballantine8127]

Angela, do you recall which Palace it was? I've been to Vienna a few times and I'm wondering whether or not I've visited that palace. I don't remember anything about a gym but it was a long time ago and I'd never even heard of Empress Sisi.

[@dewihajarahmad]

Her beauty was beyond words. Her eyes and her brows was amazing

[@Erizou90]

I didn't realise the Duke looked so stunning! Also, did you know that Sissi had a tattoo? I believe it was an anchor on her arm. ⚓

[@Altamisal]

Wow!

[@trudypegg437]

@@OdeInWessex so di

[@trudypegg437]

So did our ancestors rennet the Picts!

[@SS-bz4ze]

She was a well traveled woman with body art... In a time where people did not even have a clue about it...

[@grellimichaelis6844]

@@OdeInWessex it was not for the empress of Austria however. She did that because she loved to travel by ship and the ocean. Nobody knew about this tattoo until she died. And after people found out it was a huge scandal.

[@Always-fd7pk]

I'm SO jealous of her hair

[@VMeral]

Thank You for this! Could you reconstruct the Romaov sisters?? Their photographs are so beautiful I'd love to know what they really looked like

[@effiesaliora1910]

I love it too , from the photos I know they were beautiful.Tatiana was my fav one Thank you !!!!

[@zzzbbbooo]

They have been done many times already!

[@muna_06]

Yess! I would also love that

[@rieriec.36]

@@zzzbbbooo Debbie downer

[@aml6106]

Yes!

[@TheMagicAround]

It is very interesting how she was THAT beautiful coming from a royal family with all that imbreeding, when a pair centuries before the imbreeding led to ugliness and other complications. 2 of her 3 living children (Rudolf and Marie) were also beautiful and third (Gisela) was pretty normal. And that is when she has married her Habsburg cousin! Also that applies to other royal houses (though none had such a beauty as Sisi). There were hemophilia, madness and ilnesses - but the ugliness had somehow vanishen completely in 19th century...

[@ludoludo80]

Also her cousin was beautiful! Ludewig

[@jackyex]

Well that's because that's not how "imbredness" works, the so famed Spanish hapsburgs only got their characteristic looks after many generations, plus she was NOT a hapsburg, she was a from a totally different royal house, the whittelsbach of Bavaria, and you would be surprised of how common was the marriages between cousins in the last century. Inbreeding in only an actual problem when it happens from every generation to the other, the hapsburgs stopped their inbreeding since the war of Spanish succession. There was quite some time for the diversification of genes.

[@sparksfly6149]

Coincidentally, paternity tests hadn’t been invented yet.

[@ludoludo80]

@Logos di'Cosmos actually all her brothers and sisters were beautiful!

[@mkuti-childress3625]

@@ludoludo80 I swear they looked _exactly_ alike! They looked like the same person in two different genders.

[@fredf7457]

The technology of bringing a face from a painting into real life-like is just amazing !

[@denisefreitas6727]

So amazing to see Sissi's face with animations.

[@glorialange6446]

Sisi was very lovely to look at imo she looked like a royal.

[@rexgrl3]

Thank you, I have a soft spot for Sisi.

[@eliv.7062]

I've always found Sissi as a historical character and a female archetype absolutely fascinating. Portraits do come to life. Great job!! 😍🙌

[@christinemeleg4535]

"Sissi"often escaped o Hungary where she was more free from Court life, besides the Hungarian people adored her. Not so much towards Franz Josef, my Nagymama ( Hungarian for grandmother ) kept a flock of chickens in her backyard , the rooster was called FranzJosef until slaughtered for a pot of chicken soup. True story.

[@ythelldoineedahandle]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love this story.

[@masako_aiko_watanabe]

The technology to create this kind of videos here is fascinating! Thanks for it!

[@bisedwards6985]

Your graphics are lovely! Always been fascinated by Sisi, esp after staying in Vienna for two months in a hotel names for her. She was a beautiful and interesting woman. She'd be a genuine star today not another meet and greet fake-smiling royal.

[@Shiryone]

This was a wonderful video. I read "The Accidental Empress," a novel by Allison Pataki, as well as the sequel, so it was great to see the faces of those that I had read about.

[@davinademers9545]

My mum and I watch every German Sissi every Christmas

[@Wysteria-Whisper]

Sisi was a real natural beauty which you brought out in these recreations of real life, her real life, very interesting to see❇️Great Video💡

[@marycerrada9573]

So beautiful!Watched this in 1960. And had wanted to see Forever in Lovr till this time.a dream fulfilled.HAD WANTED TO SEE Love Me Forever!!!Thank you so much!!!

[@cutechiangels]

Thanks for a wonderful short documentary about Sisi, coming to life with some of her family members. 👌👍

[@Griselda_Puppy]

Binge watching your videos! Thank you again for the effort you put into them!

[@HelgaZimmer]

Congratulatios for your fantastic works of arts and history.Hugs from a fan in Brazil 🇧🇷🌟

[@offwiththefairiesforever2373]

Stunning ! She was stunning

[@rosered103]

I am enjoying the series titled, The Empress. Thank you for uploading this video.

[@keroualle]

I would really love to see George Villiers, the first duke of Buckingham, and also d’Attagnan, of the Three Musketeers fame( his full name Charles Ogier de Batz - Castlemore d’Artagnan. There are two extant portraits, said to be his, an engraving and a painting. If you ever get the time and willingness to do it, that would be amazing! Thank you for the great job you’re doing, in bringing all there people back to life! It’s absolutely fascinating!

[@jobes4525]

Would love to see some of the Great Masters and Mistress of the Artist World. TY for the videos. Fantastic ☺️

[@moriko07]

The only moments of happiness were from childhood to adolescence. Her motherhood and court life were as tight on her as her corsets, stressed out by her aunt always meddling in and her court who basically never really accepted her. She if she should have become Carlo Ludovico's wife, she probably would have had a happier life, surrounded by love, animals she adored, nature and children. She didn't have the ambition or the will to be an empress. Her stress and tenderness led her to have an abortion and her state of health led her to lose a lot of hair that she struggled to keep long and she found herself chasing absurd diets in an attempt to preserve herself. And ironically, she saw so little of her husband that she suffered.

[@inkenhafner7187]

Who are you talking about?

[@maried3717]

Excellent! By happenstance I was watching for the first time tonight, the series The Empress. This post has given me more insight into her life and will make viewing more interesting. I am struck how uch the cast members look like this family. Especially Sisi!

[@kathycortez232]

I love how you bring these pictures to live I love this channel tyfs hugs and prayers much love 💗

[@AlexKS1992]

I can see why the Emperor of Austria-Hungary loved her so much. When she was murdered Franz Joseph took it very hard along with the murder of his brother Maximilian and the suicide of his son Rudolf.

[@Morri78]

I do think he loved her, but more in a platonic way. He also had a long-term mistress he loved; a relationship Sisi gave her blessing to. But her and her husband did exchange very loving letters with each other up until her death

[@destinyclark4133]

@@Morri78 No he most definitely loved her in a sexual way. The “mistress” your speaking of is Katharina Schratt, Sisi actually picked her out herself because she refused to go to bed with Franz Joseph after their fourth child was born. However, evidence shows that Katharina and Franz never had a sexual relationship and were honestly just friends but they let Sisi believe they were together since she was so convinced they were. Not to mention one of their daughters told of how once Franz heard of Sisi’s death he remarked, “You have no idea how much I loved that woman.” P.S I apologize if I sound like a know it all, I just love royal history 😅

[@march9177]

@@destinyclark4133 do you really think the man, a king, who didn’t have sex with his wife that gave her blessings to sleep with the mistress would never have sex with any other woman? I doubt he stopped having sex when his wife lost interest, esp since the wife was even fine with it

[@destinyclark4133]

@@march9177 I know it would be hard to believe for a king of that time but all personal accounts from family and close friends say that Franz never slept with anyone but Sisi and that he never wanted a mistress in the first place. Not to mention that Franz was no sex addict and grew up in a strict and rigid manner where duty always came before pleasure. He spent nearly all his time on politics because of the hostility between Austrians and Hungarians when they became one nation. This is proven in letters Sisi would write to Franz in which she would ask him to join her on vacations because of how tirelessly he had been working.

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

@@destinyclark4133 I read, though, that he gave in to Sissi's whims so much because he gave her STDs, which he had picked up in brothels. The "rashes" and various other symptoms Sissy suffered from and because of which she went to spas were actually from those diseases. Many other royal and non-royal women of her time shared that kind of trouble, so I can well believe it. Tzar Nicolas II and Alexandra were one of the few exemptions, we are told. Sissi's daughter-in-law Stephanie was soon rendered infertile due to what Rudolf "gave" _her._ :-(

[@IrishDancerGermany]

Sisi was 16 years of age when she married Franz Josef. She got engaged at the age of 15.

[@MortalFaces]

Thank you for that correction. Her birthday was in December and they got married in April, so she was turning 17 that year.

[@hellesveistrup9516]

@@MortalFaces Am I rigth or were they married in Budapest??

[@ChibiProwl]

@@hellesveistrup9516 According to Wikipedia, they were married in Vienna, Austria at the Augustinerkirche.

[@maraluth9568]

@@hellesveistrup9516 no, they married in Vienna.

[@monikacigerova6850]

@@maraluth9568 weren't they married in Bratislava, Slovakia ? I think

[@amypagekaviani5661]

Thank you for this video. I have always wondered what she looked since she was considered a great beauty.

[@mariacuachon3906]

Gosh what a beautiful Sissi, handsome Franz Joseph, lovely children... What a tragedy

[@aparnarajesh]

If her son was free to married woman he loved

[@k.v.7681]

@@aparnarajesh He had a tendency to love about every woman he met. While his marriage wasn't a good thing , granted, and purely political, he even cheated on his mistress "love of his life" with whom he commited suicide. And managed to get both his wife and mistress infected with Gonorrhea, which led to those two women becoming infertile (which is an interesting tidbit of info given the wild claims of the mistress being pregnant when they commited suicide. It was perfectly impossible).

[@thekingsdaughter4233]

@@k.v.7681 the wife, Stephanie, actually had one daughter by him. Then infertility. So it could have been possible that Mary was pregnant. :-\

[@debralee1401]

Such a wonderful history lesson fir those who love learning!

[@mariposazuzu5220]

I would love to see the Brontes and Jane Austen , please.

[@ChibiProwl]

Ditto. Maybe Louisa May Alcott and Anna Sewell as well. Boy wise, Jack Frost and Rudyard Kipling?

[@christycrane5902]

I would love to see Jane Austen too! but sadly we don't know how she really looked. The only contemporary image was made by her sister when she was almost dying. And relatives have declared that the sketch is a very bad likeness.

[@GoldPavel]

Hello! You really did an amazing job! I would enjoy to see Louis II of Bavaria, Sissi's cousin

[@mildredjardot4608]

Merci pour ce merveilleux travail !👍👍👍👍

[@kikit9072]

Another great video! I get so excited when I see a new one posted. I wish you could do one every day. 😁

[@muna_06]

Wow. I love history and I kinda liked seeing the likeness to their real faces and the details are amazing!

[@VictorRochaGaming]

Thanks for the info. I had never heard of Empress Sisi until I visited Vienna in 2019. My hosts reverentially spoke of her beauty.

[@rocwyvern1101]

Beautiful!!! 👏👏👏 Thank you!!! 💜💜💜

[@lisalu910]

Diane de Poitiers was another renowned beauty - I'd like to see her. Thanks

[@RedHeadNdProud]

Why am I jealous of her husbands eyebrows? 😂 They were so nice and full!

[@michaels7889]

A careful concise beautifully illustrated narrative of familiar information.

[@antoniofarinaccio541]

Every one knows Sissi the Empress of Austria but her sister Maria Sofia of the Kingdom of the Two-sicily was a real heroes a woman of great spirit and personality and yet no one knows her. I think if one ever really do a serious research on her Sissie's would be insignificant.

[@greenshp]

Was that the one who died in the fire in Paris? I was thinking the same thing..... the whole family is fascinating.

[@elisa7033]

The most accurate portrait of Sissi you can find is probably in the film "Ludwig" directed by Luchino Visconti,with Romy Schneider and Helmut Berger.

[@mr.dorianblackwell]

Maybe. Certainly not those cringy 50s movies with Mrs. Schneider already playing Sissi.

[@paulinegeoghegan6260]

we loved those films sisi sisi empress and sister mother and emperess

[@Beirut27]

Who needs a film ?

[@leonievw2466]

I would love to see her cousin, king of Bavaria. Also a sad story of an exentric figure

[@nelliethursday1812]

He was murdered I mean who drowns in 2 feet of water

[@leonievw2466]

@@nelliethursday1812 I think so as well.

[@whatalsaid]

Sissi was like a combination of Marie Antoinette, Henry VIII's first two wives and Princess Diana. Always under scrutiny by the royal court, tragically died too young.

[@Zarastro54]

She was 60. That’s considered at least early old age even by today’s standards.

[@robertschlesinger1342]

Very interesting and worthwhile video.

[@marlenetrimnal4368]

THEY LOOK SO MUCH VERY REAL INDEED!! ;-) ........thank you happy Holiday's.🎄

[@Tinyflypie]

Your recreations are really superb

[@TheMeowizer]

what a lovely story telling, well done

[@ageorgiapeach9442]

Your work is amazing.

[@meowmeowunknow]

I would love to see King HenryV I know that's it's hard as we can only see one side of his face but it would be fascinating to reconstruct his face base on the doccuments recorded :)

[@bookbirdees5808]

You did an amazing job!

[@wingandhog]

It was an insane world back in those days with anarchy and whatnot. Times never change I guess. That woman was classically beautiful.

[@Erika-xm2mi]

@@tatumergo3931 Not really. You tend to believe that due to the access that we have to information and mass media today and these often focus on the worst aspects of what is happening in the world. If you were to live in a country with heavy censorship, it wouldn't mean that bad things had stopped happening, it would just mean that you'd be happier because you wouldn't know about them.

[@sikemo9432]

Thanks it's amazing work. I'm not so sure about your description of her character though. I've heard and read so many versions of it! He betrayed her with others in spite of all the love they were supposed to have for each other and she never slept with him again after she found out. I heard she felt sorry for herself. But if what you say is true, she had lots of reasons to be depressed. I heard her travels were 'kurs' health spas.

[@k.v.7681]

There's a lot of takes on her persona. Tragic woman, vain tyrant, unstable girl, sad noblewoman... I'd say she was a bit of all that. It has to be said tho that mental instability was rather common in her family. All her brothers and sisters are quite interesting as well. Quite tragic and prone to depression. Altho there is one in particular that turned his despair into something good, Charles-Theodore. After loosing his first wife, with whom he had a very loving relationship, and several wars as a soldier, he dropped titles, career and name to study medecine. He then remaried, and spent his life treating the poor for free along his wife as a respected ophtalmologist.

[@julieholgin6459]

Would like to see Vlad Dracula,King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Pancho Villa,Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera,Eleanor of Aquitaine and Emperor Charlemagne.

[@lisalu910]

According to author/historian Allison Weir, there is no definitive portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Any portrayals of her are simply the artist's interpretation of what she might have looked like.

[@michaelgarcia2973]

Pancho Villa ?

[@julieholgin6459]

@@michaelgarcia2973 yes Pancho Villa

[@julieholgin6459]

@@lisalu910 if that is true or not still would like to see it!

[@serpentlaw5961]

Splendidly done.

[@lucyalmeida4126]

More Sisi please. Thanks

[@cherrykovacevic7584]

THANKYO so much. I watched a movie, she WAS my favourite. I live in Australia but came from Croatia a baroque town with castles, where queen Maria Teresa from Austra & other royalists usted to come. So please I would love to ser her. THANKYOU so much. Love from Australia.♥️

[@denisgallet7211]

Thank you for your great work and i want to see Fouquier-Tinville.

[@lohaye3260]

Her life was so tragic, if I'm not mistaken the actress who played her in a trilogy ( Romy Schneider ) had a son who died at an domestic accident very young too.

[@tomasjoconnel5367]

His name was David. David died at age 14 after trying to climb a spiked fence at his stepfather's parents' home. RS never got over it I think.

[@euridicesacramentomariani6953]

@@tomasjoconnel5367 Yes. Very sad. She never more recovered from this tragedy.

[@tomasjoconnel5367]

@@euridicesacramentomariani6953 She is my fav actress of all time. 'Les Choses de la Vie' is a great film. The soundtrack is fabulous as well. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6W1eqSkqrJjd7c

[@angelbabysqueaky3985]

Thank you for a wonderful bio.

[@Frothenbath1]

6:42 That's an image of her at 60 years old?! Wow, she didn't age a bit! Absolutely gorgeous!

[@birgitangermair4483]

No, it isn`t ... it is one of the last official Photographs taken, she was +/- 30 Years of age then. Sisi did not allow any Photographs to be taken after she had turned 30 years old. There exist a lot of paintings showing her at a later age, but she never modeled for them herself, the painters created them from their memory. The last Photographs of her were taken by some paparazzi in Genf in September 1898, a few days before her death.

[@Frothenbath1]

@@birgitangermair4483 Ah, ok. That makes sense. Thanks for clarifying.

[@birgitangermair4483]

@@Frothenbath1 Hi there, you`re welcome!!!!🙂🙂🙂

[@dazeyday5699]

I can’t believe people believe that she was 50 or 60 in these photos. I think it’s a bit more than gullible. Seems we have a bit of male gaze going on both in history and this video.

[@Frothenbath1]

@@dazeyday5699 Since I've known people personally that look far younger than their actual age, it's not gullible, it's actually possible. And "male gaze?" That seems like you're assuming you know my gender, which is a faux-pas these days. I hope you have a wonderful day though. 😀

[@jameseddleman6944]

oh dang, making the pictures move, thats a nice touch

[@trishforster9234]

Exquisite pictorial f a lovely woman🌞

[@andreasa.2119]

Hello and congratulations on such a great video. Could you do on on Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna?

[@delia_watercolors]

Loved the video!! There's photos of her available, not just paintings. ❤

[@OWOT-re5jf]

Such a beautiful royal

[@eringemini7091]

I guess this awesome video answers the question at the end of the "Empress" series on Netfix; did she survive walking out of the palace gates.

[@RoachVlogsBlogs]

Even in her seasoned age she was still beautiful. Damn

[@nikkole9951]

These videos are so neat! Can you do one with King Ludwig II of Bavaria. He was also a Wittelsbach and Sisi’s cousin. Keep up the great work!

[@michellecsiernyik5200]

Your video popped up on my feed, and rightfully so since I love history. Very good video. But I wished you included that she was Queen of Hungary 👑👸👑👸

[@modelomacy516]

This would make a wonderful movie!

[@maried3717]

There is a m8ni series on Netflix playing now. The Empress

[@modelomacy516]

@@maried3717 thank you . Looks like I'll be watching

[@jamellfoster6029]

She was a very loving mother which I admire. Her kids were her world. People complained because she put her kids ahead of her husband & other things but that's what normal Moms do...

[@FaeSparrow]

You kidding? She ignored them for the most part, didn't care when her only son begged her for help weeks before he killed himself, and referred to her oldest daughter as a 'pig', saying she hates her for making her a grandmother at such an young age....

[@grellimichaelis6844]

Sadly that is not true. She never got over Sofie's death and grew very cold and distant towards Gisela and Rudolf afterwards. She was as good as never at the castle in Vienna and only got a better relationship with her youngest daughter Marie Valerie.

[@grellimichaelis6844]

@@FaeSparrow oh that's interesting I didn't know that. Where have you got that information from?

[@jamellfoster6029]

@@FaeSparrow I wouldn't want to be a grandmother at a young age either. Thank goodness my daughters don't want to be young Moms. They are 22 & 25 & still single with no kids.

[@michellemcdermott2026]

I put my husband first, then my children

[@ReapWhatYaSow]

I remember she was a great beauty. Her beauty influenced the "pretty princess" that Disney eventually had adopted. All spread from the brothers Grimm of course.

[@patshifflett4205]

Great job

[@goldenager59]

In the 1968 movie Mayerling (a remake of an earlier French feature), which starred Omar Sharif as the Crown Prince and Catherine Deneuve as his paramour, the role of the Emperor was ably served by James Mason - but the luminous Ava Gardner as the Empress was an example of truly *immaculate* casting. 😎 🤩

[@pauljet]

Romy Schneider was the perfect casting for that role, her Sisi trilogy is all sugar and coating but when she played Sisi in the Ludwig II film, she was perfection.

[@mr.dorianblackwell]

@@pauljet The 50s movies are really horrible.

[@pauljet]

@@mr.dorianblackwell not true. 19 of AFI's 100 best films in history were made in the 50s so you're wrong obviously.

[@tessdurberville711]

​@@pauljetFrom a viewing standpoint, but she looked nothing like Schneider.

[@pauljet]

@@tessdurberville711 same with Ava Gardner then xd

[@gooseware4937]

thank you, appreciate the little history lesson, I had never heard of her, enjoyed this, could you please do the last Sicilian bandit, Salvatore Giuliano, there are pictures and a death mask, he was killed in the 1950s

[@ChibiProwl]

Yes, please. All I know of him is the movie The Sicilian starring Christopher Lambert.

[@martin_minds]

very well done. thank you.

[@giovannaadinolfi5170]

Wonderful! Thank you!

[@kellybrackin9214]

I would love to see Eleanor of Aquitaine.

[@peachesloca1397]

omg yes... but i think that would be even harder since the paintings back then were so far from reality, same goes for her tomb. but i would love to know what she looked like

[@dewrock2622]

Fascinating thank you.

[@carolinedecastro4171]

So much history of this family on the island of Madeira.

[@marika6570]

This ! video is very well made. 🦋 ♤🧡♤ 🦋

[@JarekC250]

To idzie w dobrym kierunku.,,Ożywiamy" dawnych celebrytów👍🏻

[@Morwenna16]

Her last daughter really looked like her mother, she had the same eyes and mouth so I like to watch pictures of Marie Valerie when she was older and imagine her mother did look like that when she got older ❤

[@alpha-alpha-alpha]

Her husband was heartbroken at her death, true, although he had a mistress at that time for years, who was a lot younger than Elisabet. But the nation of Austria, the Austrian people, were not mourning her because Elisabet spent too much time in Hungary, away from the Austrian court, because she did not want to get pregnant and had to escape her husband's urges (and her mother in law.) She also loved the simplicity of Hungarian people, which reminded her more of her childhood stay at Possenhofen castle, and the warm and simple, non royal folk there, whom her father invited to Possenhofen frequently for card games, zither music and drinking bear. Elisabet, (and this was how her name was spelled in her lifetime), loved people who spoke in a direct and unpretentious manner, yes, even brutally open and direct, as this was the Bavarian way of speaking among folks, and despised pretense of court with all her heart. Hungarians were known to be directly spoken and she felt way more home in Hungary than in Austria.

[@frediswendatayko321]

I hope you can also feature Sultana Hurrem.

[@roderickreilly9666]

A movie series about the life of Sisi starring Romi Schneider were made in the 50s, and were very popular in Italy where I lived as a child. We boys had a crush on "Sisi" (Schneider). It was ironic that these movies were popular in Italy because of the historical contentious relationship between Austria and Italy.