![]() ![]() ![]() It is one such journey, to England in 1875 to participate in the Quorn Hunt, which forms the basis for Daisy Goodwin’s novel, The Fortune Hunter. Oppressed by both court ceremony and a pathologically overbearing mother-in-law, Sisi sought refuge abroad. Sisi’s upbringing had afforded a great deal of freedom, a commodity in short supply at the Hapsburg court. She seemed to have everything life could offer: wealth, a doting husband, the love of the people, an heir for the throne, and matchless beauty. Known to those closest to her as “Sisi,” the Empress was born into the Bavarian royal family and, in 1854, married at age 16 to her cousin, Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria. Such was the burden of Elisabeth, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary during the Victorian period. ![]()
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