At the meal Franz introduced some of his men to his fiancée.Īt 11 am they attended the mass together. After the meeting the couple attended a breakfast at Sophie with the family, except Karl Ludwig, who lost his love interest by that time. According to Baron Hübner, the guests could see a simple and kind idyll. The happy (as Hamann said), new young couple met on this day at 8 o’ clock at the hotel in Ischl. Source: Austrian Librara Pg III/8/23 19 August: She couldn’t imagine how the Emperor could choose her, and later she said: “I love the Emperor so much! I wish he wasn’t be the Emperor!” After that Sisi started crying, and she promised that she will do everything to make her cousin happy and will try to be Aunt Sophie’s “most languorous child”. According to Brigitte Hamann, the young Duchess said: “How could anyone not love that man?”. According to Count Corti, Nené tried to be cheerful and tried to communicate with her relatives.Īfter the little trip, Sophie told her sister that Franz loves Sisi, and Ludovika was the one who needed to explain the Emperor’s feelings to her daughter. 18 August:Īfter a common dinner with the imperial family and celebrating the 23rd birthday of Emperor Franz Joseph, he, his mother and the Bavarian duchesses visited Wolfgang. When it was the time for the cotillion, Franz Joseph asked Sisi to dance with him, which was nearly equal with an engagement and everybody knew this, except Sisi. She asked Hugo von Weckbecker to dance with Elisabeth, he said later that “I think I was dancing with our future Empress!”.ĭuring the ball Sisi wore a little, very nice jewelry, the little diamond arrow. The Emperor told his mother before it that he likes (or loves) Sisi, so Sophie decided to try out how the little Duchess can dance. In the eve of Franz Joseph’s birthday, there was a ball. Sisi looked better this time in the black dress than her sister and Franz Joseph fell in love with her. Unfortunately their carriage with the other clothes got lost, so they had to attend the first meeting with members of the imperial family, a tea party in black dresses. All of them wore black dresses because of the death of an aunt. Sisi, Nené and Ludovika arrived in Bad Ischl. Source: Pinterest The summer of 1853 16 August: Romy Schneider and Karlheinz Böhm as Duchess Elisabeth and Emperor Franz Jospeh in ‘Sissi’ (first part of the ‘Sissi trilogy’), 1955
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