National Geographic History - 05.2019 - 06.2019
and pastimes to fill the hours. She read and wrote poetry, she traveled, and she studied the culture of her people, especially H ...
XXXXXXXXXXX RUDOLF, Sisi’s son and the heir to the throne, is found dead at age 30 beside the body of his teenage lover in a sui ...
comfortable family mansion on the banks of Lake Starnberg south of Munich. Her childhood was unusually informal for the time and ...
“I Gambled Freedom Away” The day after the engagement between Franz Josef and Elisabeth of Bavaria was announced, Sisi’s mother, ...
was solemnized in Vienna, and Sisi became the empress of Austria. Crushed by the Court The young couple had little time to enjoy ...
SUMMERING IN STYLE Dazzling rococo features adorn the Great Gallery of the Schönbrunn Palace, the traditional summer residence o ...
the infant’s care, declaring that the mother was too young to do it properly herself. Following the birth of Sisi’s second daugh ...
IMPERIAL ITEMS The empress relied on various gadgets and accessories to help prepare her food, weigh herself, and exercise. But ...
Recent biographers have also drawn attention to her active mind and love of literature and po- etry, especially for the works of ...
REINHARD SCHMID/FOTOTECA 9X12 ISLAND PARADISE Sisi fell in love with Corfu following her first visit to the island in 1861. In 1 ...
Hungarians. Soon after, and thanks to Sisi’s intense lobbying, Andrássy negotiated terms with Franz Josef that granted Hungary i ...
HUNGARIAN MONARCHS The Castle of Buda dominates this panoramic view of Budapest. Behind, rises the Matthias Church, where Franz ...
at a hunting lodge in Mayerling. The “Mayerling Incident” became a sensational scandal across Europe. The death of Franz Josef’s ...
ORONOZ/ALBUM DEATH IN GENEVA A color etching re-creates the moment when Sisi was fatally stabbed by an Italian anarchist in Sept ...
GIRL ON FILM Born soon after the birth of photography, Sisi understood the power of the camera. Where it burnished her image, sh ...
2 Te e n Qu e e n Sisi was 15 when this picture was taken by the well-known German photographer Alois Löcherer in Bavaria, in 18 ...
How the War Was Won D-DAY STORMING THE BEACHES Following months of top secret planning, U.S. Army troops wade ashore from a land ...
the axis and allies had been sparring for supremacy for five years when dawn broke on june 6, 1944, along the beaches of norther ...
76 MAY/JUNE 2019 THE GERMAN DEFENSIVE BARRIER known as the Atlantic Wall included two areas that met the requirements for a mass ...
Py re nee s A p e n n i n e s A L P S Corsica (Free France) Norman dy Britt any Pas de Cal ais Fri sia J u t la n d Bayonne ...
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