The dress that 60-year-old Empress Elisabeth of Austria was wearing on September 10th, 1898, the day of her assassination.
To the right of it is the sharpened industrial needle file that 25-year-old Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni used to stab her in the heart.
A bust of Empress Elisabeth at the Népkert in Miskolc, Hungary.
Empress Sisi’s salon at the Hofburg.
Empress Elisabeth in Corfu, 1889
Empress Elisabeth of Austria, 1867
Ava Gardner as Elisabeth of Austria “Sissi”
“Mayerling” (1968)
For the 175th jubilee of Empress Elisabeth, the Hofburg devotes the Large Salon of her rooms in the Vienna Hofburg Palace to her family, the Wittelsbacher. All her siblings will be represented in life-sized photographs. The first one is Néné.
(Source: irenesroyalphotoblog, via melancholykaiserin)
Empress Elisabeth of Austria with her cousin, King Ludwig II of Bavaria
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