The Tragic Life Of Elisabeth Of Austria

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  • čas přidán 8. 06. 2024
  • Elisabeth of Austria was one of the most powerful monarchs of the 19th century. Remarkably beautiful, Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, defied Austrian court traditions. She traveled often and became a beloved figure in both Austria and Hungary. Elisabeth was very concerned with her looks; she engaged in strange beauty rituals and aggressive exercise routines. Elisabeth's iconoclastic ways resulted in her bizarre death at the hands of an anarchist.
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  • @user-gi8pk9uc7q
    @user-gi8pk9uc7q Před 7 měsíci +62

    It's not always good to be the queen, and Sisi was a prime example of that!

  • @Cerrydwenn
    @Cerrydwenn Před 7 měsíci +23

    Even in Belgium i grew up watching the Sissi movies on tv every year around christmas time. As a kid i remember it being almost like a disney story, the beautiful young princess getting married etc.

  • @Replicaate
    @Replicaate Před 7 měsíci +42

    It's weird how I'd never heard of Sisi until a couple years ago when I got really into reading about 19th century eastern/central Europe. A shame, her life is fascinating if terribly depressing - those Wittlesbachs never seem to have a good time, do they?

    • @-xirx-
      @-xirx- Před 7 měsíci

      Have you read mikhail lermontov's a hero of our time?
      I recommend it

  • @anFy81
    @anFy81 Před 7 měsíci +106

    as an Austrian living in Vienna, with roots in Budapest, Hungary, I approve this message

    • @Zachary3D
      @Zachary3D Před 7 měsíci +7

      Ok... lol

    • @jimmorrison8225
      @jimmorrison8225 Před 7 měsíci +2

      My grandmother was from Vienna. Ich liebe Austria.

    • @_sayan_roy_
      @_sayan_roy_ Před 7 měsíci +5

      Approve what message though ? 🤣You just wanted to say you're an Austrian with Hungarian roots. I can understand. It's cool. I also can't resist sometimes to comment like this on video related to where I'm from.

    • @anFy81
      @anFy81 Před 6 měsíci

      @@_sayan_roy_ you are not wrong Sir! therefore I also approve your message 😁 greetings from Grinzing

    • @SophiaElizabeth.
      @SophiaElizabeth. Před 2 měsíci +1

      Love Austria from America!
      🇦🇹❤️🇺🇸 Wanna visit you guys one day!

  • @angelserenade
    @angelserenade Před 7 měsíci +10

    If I remember correctly, the assassin had planned to kill the Duke of Orleans, but failed when his target left earlier than expected. He then targeted the Empress after hearing she was residing in a hotel in the same area.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +10

    9:07 Elisabeth might have had Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Shirley Manson of Garbage (one of my favorite bands) had that.
    "I would spend two hours crying in the toilet - and whatever the result, I always thought I looked disgusting. I would look in the mirror every morning and be upset." - Shirley Manson

  • @writinggamer8059
    @writinggamer8059 Před 7 měsíci +36

    I've been watching the series about her on Netflix, which is a dramatic series so takes artistic liberties. It's interesting that she isn't as well known as Catherine the Great, especially since it was her family ruling right before WWI

    • @elizabethmartin6707
      @elizabethmartin6707 Před 7 měsíci

      What show?

    • @TheZinger14
      @TheZinger14 Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@elizabethmartin6707it’s called The Empress. It’s in German but with subs it’s soo good!!

    • @elizabethmartin6707
      @elizabethmartin6707 Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@TheZinger14 thank you!

    • @evelien135
      @evelien135 Před 5 měsíci +2

      Not as known?? She is one of the most famous royals of Europe ever 😂 when someone has a huge wedding dress people will even say “she had one of those Sissi dresses.” There’s also movies about her which have been massive hits for decades in many European countries.

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +3

    A+ video!
    Fascinating video, very interesting seeing how she is still influential today!

  • @SlipperywhenRhett
    @SlipperywhenRhett Před 7 měsíci +31

    How about one on Lady Jane Grey? The story was so good, my wife named her cat after the 9-day Queen.

  • @georgianagheorghe8848
    @georgianagheorghe8848 Před 7 měsíci +5

    I remember reading an article about Princess Sissi and I found out that her aunt Princess Sophia made her life miserable. An example is when she took Sissi's firstborn from her right after she gave birth and kept the child away from her.

  • @sallykohorst8803
    @sallykohorst8803 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks for her story.

  • @tinas_hotdog_sophie
    @tinas_hotdog_sophie Před 7 měsíci +8

    Nice pronounciation of Elisabeth! 😍

  • @JeremiahSpeaks
    @JeremiahSpeaks Před 7 měsíci +15

    Can you do a video on when did it start and why humans have last names?

  • @sylviaberger139
    @sylviaberger139 Před 7 měsíci +15

    Very interesting short summary of Elizabeth's life. However a few flaws. Firstly Elizabeth did not have an affair with count Andrassy as she hated making love. Therefore she encouraged her husband to have a longtime affair with Katharina Schratt, who was as well kind of a soul mate to the emperor as his wife was unable to do so. The story of the death of crown prince Rudolf and baroness Mary Vetsera is all but a Romeo and Julia story. Mary was one of Rudolfs many affairs and there is more than one reason to believe that he already had enough from her and wanted closure. Some historians believe that the journey to Mayerling should bring this affair to an end. Whatever happened there, it was no death out of love without fulfillment (maybe but just maybe on her side). There are many theories what may have happened at Mayerling on this could winter night but all have one in common: The crown prince of Austria-Hungary did not die for love!

  • @elizabethramsey9295
    @elizabethramsey9295 Před 7 měsíci

    Thank you for this representation

  • @SophiaElizabeth.
    @SophiaElizabeth. Před 2 měsíci +1

    She’s beautiful-In body and in soul! And a one fine ruler! ❤️

  • @MikaelaKMajorHistory
    @MikaelaKMajorHistory Před 7 měsíci +4

    Psychosomatic symptoms? Definitely! I have them as well and man does it feel good to get away from your stressors. Those doctors did a huge favor to Sisi prescribing her vacation 😊
    Also I have a theory that her son ended up offing himself because of his upbringing. I’ve heard many children who end up mental health issues because their mothers do not care for them (while still being physically around).

  • @JeremiahSpeaks
    @JeremiahSpeaks Před 7 měsíci +13

    Also, if not this suggestion, can you do a video on what life is like for a pageant winner?

    • @mikememine1423
      @mikememine1423 Před 7 měsíci

      Like who, Jon-Benet Ramsey?

    • @JeremiahSpeaks
      @JeremiahSpeaks Před 7 měsíci

      @@mikememine1423 Not necessarily. Any pageant winner for Miss America, Miss USA

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +2

    8:39 "Here I Go Again" by White Snake is an awesome music video!
    We used to listen to that song all the time when I was a freshman at Doane University.

  • @viviktr
    @viviktr Před 7 měsíci +3

    Very interesting video! However, allow me to make a correction: princess Sophie, later Archduchess Sophie, was not a princess of Greece and Denmark, as mentioned in 0:51. This is a completely different royal line

  • @NASCARFAN93100
    @NASCARFAN93100 Před 7 měsíci +9

    She truly was a Queen

  • @darbysdownhomedetecting
    @darbysdownhomedetecting Před 7 měsíci +5

    Would love to hear one on king George the 3rd😊

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +2

    6:33 In reference to psychosomatic...
    The music video "Breathe" by The Prodigy is fantastic!

  • @auntvesuvi3872
    @auntvesuvi3872 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks for this! 👑 #WeirdHistory #EmpressElisabethOfAustria #ElisabethOfAustria #Austria

  • @thisisscorpio6024
    @thisisscorpio6024 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Pretty lady. Thanks for explaining the long hair. I started to notice that as more pictures rolled.

  • @daraf5489
    @daraf5489 Před 7 měsíci +14

    I like the comparison that Empress Sisi was the Lady Di of her day

  • @MilesBellas
    @MilesBellas Před 7 měsíci +3

    "Cirque Du Back Yard" 😂

  • @That1kid304
    @That1kid304 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Early upload this time . Glad

  • @laurensteiler8981
    @laurensteiler8981 Před 7 měsíci +3

    As of German and Austrian descent.. I feel really connected to her in a strange way… I’m OBSESSED w my hair and my appearance.. I thought I was the only peers in of Germanic blood who did the same thing? 😂 Anyone feel the same you

  • @danielbarcenas4175
    @danielbarcenas4175 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Maybe do a video on the Winchester mystery house?

    • @mikememine1423
      @mikememine1423 Před 7 měsíci +1

      San Jose CA...been there. Really bizarre place

  • @leapfrog2640
    @leapfrog2640 Před 7 měsíci +4

    Funny thought while watching this… they wouldn’t have any idea how we can see their photos on technological devices.

  • @niceguy7171
    @niceguy7171 Před 7 měsíci +4

    When they said " So she would crush on Tiktok", i almost deleted myself

  • @Kiraiko44
    @Kiraiko44 Před 7 měsíci +9

    I always feel such disgust for the way so many princesses and queens were treated, I know that in many ways their lives were much better compared to the average person of their times but I still

  • @julianaylor4351
    @julianaylor4351 Před 7 měsíci +5

    Being a royal wife is often tough, but poor Sisi, had it really bad. The first time I read about her history, at school in A Level European History, I felt so sad for her. 😥

  • @SpammytheHedgehog
    @SpammytheHedgehog Před 7 měsíci +8

    I never thought I would hear of a 3rd Queen Elizabeth.

  • @grapeshot
    @grapeshot Před 7 měsíci +10

    Anarchists were like nobody has the right to rule over anybody.

  • @Thomas-Gr
    @Thomas-Gr Před 7 měsíci +1

    At 4;52 You show Ludwig I. of Bavaria, not Ludwig II., the grandson.

  • @richewilson6394
    @richewilson6394 Před 7 měsíci +3

    She eats like my sister-in-law lol

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +3

    10:02 On the tv series Into The Badlands, all the rulers of their region are called Barons regardless of their gender.

    • @mikememine1423
      @mikememine1423 Před 7 měsíci +1

      You don't get out much, do you... take a walk into the great outdoors once in a while...

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@mikememine1423 We lived out in the country until I was six, then lived in an agricultural community until I was 18.

  • @YaaaaanSapnu
    @YaaaaanSapnu Před 4 měsíci

    love

  • @pfkmsandiego
    @pfkmsandiego Před 7 měsíci

    ❤ peace

  • @CK.girl55
    @CK.girl55 Před 7 měsíci

    What a beauty!! 💜🌈✨🖤🌺🌹

  • @juliesarnoff-clark9543
    @juliesarnoff-clark9543 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Can you please do a video about the Dublin whiskey fire in 1875?

  • @kimshearer6464
    @kimshearer6464 Před 7 měsíci +2

    I'd like to know about Amy Robsart.

  • @redphoenix9384
    @redphoenix9384 Před 7 měsíci

    😭😭😭🙏🙏🙏

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +4

    A lot of the marital and familial arrangements remind me of the film Pride and Prejudice (2005), which I just watched again last night.
    Fantastic film!

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Před 7 měsíci +1

      Pride, Prejudice and Zombies is an even better film

    • @mikememine1423
      @mikememine1423 Před 7 měsíci

      Have you ever heard of reading? Books have a lot of information and stories, like pride and prejudice... look in to it

    • @btetschner
      @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +2

      @@mikememine1423 Pride and Prejudice is an excellent book, I read the book and then watched the film.

    • @jewel65
      @jewel65 Před 6 měsíci +1

      The BBC version is the best 1. I think it's closest to the book.

  • @giovannirastrelli9821
    @giovannirastrelli9821 Před 7 měsíci +3

    All of us have danced with death, but no one like Elisabeth!

    • @MadameChristie
      @MadameChristie Před 7 měsíci +2

      *points excitedly* I understood that reference!

  • @Wraith_of_Storm
    @Wraith_of_Storm Před 7 měsíci +1

    Wow...! Anyone else kind of seeing the similarities between Elisabeth and "Cinderella?" 😳

  • @CarlDillynson
    @CarlDillynson Před 4 měsíci

    "...who put his whole Andrassy into everything." LOLLLLL

  • @NewMessage
    @NewMessage Před 7 měsíci +4

    I knew a Beth of Australia who was pretty hungry.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Před 7 měsíci +2

    Being royalty doesn't always live up good as everyone thinks

    • @jasondashney
      @jasondashney Před 7 měsíci +1

      I don't Think I've ever talked to anyone who said they would like to be a member of the royal family. Seems like it would be the worst life ever.

  • @richarddeese1087
    @richarddeese1087 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Thanks.
    🎶 Shots in the Royal car...
    (And war around the world)
    Smoke on the corner... 🎶
    tavi.

  • @lakibody
    @lakibody Před 7 měsíci +5

    Man their family tree is like a merry go round😅

    • @mikememine1423
      @mikememine1423 Před 7 měsíci

      That tree has no branches 😭... Grows straight up

  • @patdonnelly9392
    @patdonnelly9392 Před 7 měsíci +1

    I guess it wasn't common knowledge back then that being 96 lbs. at 5'8" would cause her beloved hair to thin considerably. But, maybe they had an early version of Rogaine 🤔.

  • @zach7193
    @zach7193 Před 7 měsíci +2

    Remember reading this on Wikipedia.

    • @VenusAxe
      @VenusAxe Před 7 měsíci

      Same! I had did some reading on her and her favorite cousin, I forgot his name.

  • @itachi-kun7736
    @itachi-kun7736 Před 7 měsíci +3

    she died in a horrific way, i think Franz Joseph would have not entered WWI if she was still alive in 1914

  • @artheemisia
    @artheemisia Před 7 měsíci +1

    And her little sister perished in the fire of the Bazar de la charité, in Paris…

  • @JuhiSRK
    @JuhiSRK Před 7 měsíci

    Why the loud & distracting music choices?

  • @samanthal133
    @samanthal133 Před 7 měsíci +2

    The Netflix series is pretty good & the film was just okay.

  • @SofaKingShit
    @SofaKingShit Před 7 měsíci

    Great choice of music for a land locked country.

  • @jodiuhron1979
    @jodiuhron1979 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Technically, the wife of an emperor/king doesn’t reign. She is just the wife of the emperor/king and mother of the ruler’s children. Same role as the late Prince Phillip, the late QEII’s husband. She was Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary, but Franz Joseph was the one with the power (allegedly… he was a mama’s boy and let his mother have too much say in ruling Austria). If Elisabeth did have power, she could’ve told her monster-in-law to take a hike and shove it, lol.

  • @flo-ip8ds
    @flo-ip8ds Před 3 měsíci

    Sisi, Lady Di and Marie Antoinette have one thing in common..they all broke out from the golden cage in order to be more free....i understand them and its kinda remarkable.

  • @MatthewTheWanderer
    @MatthewTheWanderer Před 7 měsíci +3

    She didn't eat meat, but liked to put raw meat on her face? How peculiar...

  • @SamanthaR0x
    @SamanthaR0x Před 7 měsíci

    I feel like I'm spoiling the show The Empress for myself

    • @FailingArtist
      @FailingArtist Před 7 měsíci

      It doesn’t have true facts- it’s like a “fantasy” mainly but has the “bones” of the true story. Its soooo good!! Highly recommend!

  • @TheCandiceWang
    @TheCandiceWang Před 7 měsíci +1

    She's a Saint!

  • @dgreensotr
    @dgreensotr Před 7 měsíci +1

    I just checked - she is my 8th cousin four times removed

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +2

    The CZcams channel REACT has a video challenge about the etiquette that aristocrats like Elisabeth likely used at the time, it is called "Gen Z Boys Vs. Girls: Ultimate Etiquette Challenge."
    It is a very helpful video for understanding it.

  • @user-qg8qg2sp7i
    @user-qg8qg2sp7i Před měsícem

    Ali and Lelia Pahlavi

  • @mrst7831
    @mrst7831 Před 7 měsíci

    Having your life "mapped" out without input, must be like a jail sentence for anyone. I'm going to try sleeping with the nightgown soaked in vinegar. It might even keep Dracula away.

  • @LoriVanAuwelaer-fe4fw
    @LoriVanAuwelaer-fe4fw Před 7 měsíci

    Hey y°all 😮

  • @Daria_Morgandorfer.
    @Daria_Morgandorfer. Před 7 měsíci +1

    Some believe Sisi had Npd and Bipolar and Anorexia but the family inbreeding didn't help her either

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci +1

    Eating ANOTHER Weird History meal!
    This time eating CHEF BOYARDEE BEEFARONI* with parmesan and drinking WILD CHERRY CAPRI SUN^...while watching this Weird History video!
    * From the Weird History Food video "Who Was the Real Chef Boyardee?"
    ^ From the Weird History Food video "Thirst-Quenching Facts About Your Favorite Beverages"

  • @MadameChristie
    @MadameChristie Před 7 měsíci +1

    *points to avatar* I'm a huge fan the of the German language musical about Sisi so I know my Elisabeth history lol😅
    I will say Sophie gets a tiny it of a bad rap. She was controlling and kinda bitchy yeah, but Sisi being a literally teenager when she had her kids, she may have been justified in taking charge of the kids.

  • @annacbrown1986
    @annacbrown1986 Před 7 měsíci +16

    Not as famous? Not everyone is English/American you know 😂 I've always known about Sisi but only recently learned about Queen Victoria.

  • @-xirx-
    @-xirx- Před 7 měsíci +2

    She is a ravishing hottie! 😍

  • @charlesxix
    @charlesxix Před 7 měsíci +1

    Is it American or what that the word is it regime not regiment.

  • @supwphilosophy8375
    @supwphilosophy8375 Před 7 měsíci

    Well that’s an eating disorder if I’ve ever seen one 8:24 I get why she didn’t want people taking pictures of her. Sucks to be uncomfortable in / unaccepting of your own body. Imagine having to gestate and pop out a third/fourth(?) child in order to get your husband to make you queen. Yikes!
    Thanks, I hope we get more videos about women!

  • @FatKarma999
    @FatKarma999 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Youre showing unrelated medieval portraits of other royals like you don't care why???

  • @ebrahimpatel1120
    @ebrahimpatel1120 Před 7 měsíci

    I love to videos on European aristocracy

  • @ridureyu
    @ridureyu Před 7 měsíci

    In-Laws. Am I right!?!?!?

  • @MatthewTheWanderer
    @MatthewTheWanderer Před 7 měsíci +2

    Um, why are you claiming, at the beginning of the video, that Empress Elisabeth was a "ruler" who "reigned"? She was not a ruler at all and was only married to the actual ruler, Emperor Franz Joseph I.

  • @user-rp3sg2iy8q
    @user-rp3sg2iy8q Před měsícem

    Sisi bude spet Vládnutí Moju korunu nedám Královská koruna patří pravěk Kralovnej 👸🌏🚨⚡🇸🇰♥️

  • @SpammytheHedgehog
    @SpammytheHedgehog Před 7 měsíci +3

    George Washington.

    • @HxyitsIrey
      @HxyitsIrey Před 7 měsíci +2

      Alexander Hamilton

    • @mikememine1423
      @mikememine1423 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@@HxyitsIreyBen Franklin... OH, I thought we were naming founding fathers of the United States

    • @HxyitsIrey
      @HxyitsIrey Před 7 měsíci +1

      @@mikememine1423 right? So did I

  • @tonyphilpott9500
    @tonyphilpott9500 Před 7 měsíci +2

    She wasn't a ruler. She was the consort of a ruler, Emperor Franz Joesph.

  • @alexaales7937
    @alexaales7937 Před 7 měsíci +2

    oh yes, what a very tragic life, traveling, spending money, exercising like a maniac and starving herself by choice cause she was vain beyond belief! i feel for your problems, Sisi, lol!

  • @TexasTimeLord
    @TexasTimeLord Před 7 měsíci +1

    If only WW1 had never happened and all the old empires had survived, the world would be such a better place today

  • @chcknpie04
    @chcknpie04 Před 7 měsíci

    Based Lucheni

  • @Bibibosh
    @Bibibosh Před 7 měsíci +1

    Who the hell is elizabith ?? Didnt she die in 2022/9/9?

  • @merikatools568
    @merikatools568 Před 7 měsíci +1

    Didnt she sell bathtub water she farted in?

  • @btetschner
    @btetschner Před 7 měsíci

    Going to watch the two thumbnail recommendations at the end of the video!