Empress Elisabeth, Part III

Well if i remember correctly it was posted in the old thread but in colour... So it's lovely in b&w too

   Ref post #795, punch cartoon.

  "Come back to erin mavoureen" was a popular irish love song of the time, written by poet & composer Charlotte Alington Barnard. The words of the song are not too difficult to find on the net, though I too can't see how they relate to the picture. 

  Ref post #795, punch cartoon.

  "Come back to erin mavoureen" was a popular irish love song of the time, written by poet & composer Charlotte Alington Barnard. The words of the song are not too difficult to find on the net, though I too can't see how they relate to the picture.  

The Empress loved Ireland as she found the terrain even more exciting for hunting than that in England. She would have gone there far more often but for the fact that Franz-Joseph warned her that as a representative of a Catholic realm she would have to be careful not to appear to take sides in the English-Irish disputes, especially as home rule was being debated at that time, and not to offend Queen Victoria and the British parliament, who did not approve of her visiting Ireland.

The Irish were enchanced by the Empress and very disappointed when she stopped travelling to Ireland and returned to England instead, hence the text of the Punch cartoon, which  rather aptly describes the situation. I'm surprised that people failed to see how it related to the picture!

   Many thanks for the explanation greenowl, I for one would never have made the connection.   

Thank for the explanation! i never knew that Elisabeth had passion for Ireland.

Yes, I agree totally, thank you so much for the explanation, I didn't understand the meaning of that
pic!!! ;-)

Sisi was a rebel, so the Hungarians was such a magnet to her. The Irish was rebelling under English rule, The Empress found it romantic.

Some clothes of Sissi

Amazing dresses Katenka!! Are they on a museum on Vienna?
About the first one the hairdo isn't the real one that the empress used, anyways is pretty

The wigh of the second id funny!! I don't know if Sissi's hair was naturally curly or that it looked
curly for her hairdos always using braids...

Two monuments in Hungary, I hope that they haven't been posted before
http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F%C3%A1jl:Esztergom-Erzsebet_statue.JPG&filetimestamp=20070317110254
http://hu.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=F%C3%A1jl:Erzs%C3%A9bet_kir%C3%A1lyn%C3%A9_eml%C3%A9kt%C3%A1bl%C3%A1ja_r%C3%B3la_elnevezett_kil%C3%A1t%C3%B3n%C3%A1l.JPG&filetimestamp=20090103185543

New for me

Is a pretty image of the Empress, Katenka!!!
I've never seen the photo which it is based

It was the "sick session" taken when she looked puffy.

Elisabeth and her beloved dogs