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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #510 on: October 05, 2008, 03:36:30 PM »
Yes, but she was "countrified" through her years in Bavaria. She became her children's Muti a way Sisi never did...
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #511 on: October 11, 2008, 04:31:23 AM »
Sisi with her dogs:








The empress was a great lover of nature and animals, far preferring the company of her dogs and her horses to humans.
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« Reply #512 on: October 11, 2008, 06:34:13 AM »
i hope these are not repeated..




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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #513 on: October 11, 2008, 02:32:46 PM »
many photos were retouched.
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« Reply #514 on: October 13, 2008, 05:13:10 PM »
One of my favourite Sissi anecdotes involves her three poodles, whom she sent via train to France (I believe) to have them clipped. :D
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« Reply #515 on: October 13, 2008, 05:51:50 PM »
She like animals more than people...
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« Reply #516 on: October 14, 2008, 10:21:56 AM »
I think that she had an Irish Wolfhound called "Horseguard", although I stand open to correction. Once when Franz-Joseph asked her what gift she would like for her name day (as her birthday fell at Christmas she received her birthday presents on her "name day") she replied that she would like a tiger cub and informed him that the zoo in Berlin had three suitable specimens. However, I don't think he granted her wish on that particular occasion.
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« Reply #517 on: October 14, 2008, 01:34:25 PM »
I agree...It would have eaten the skin and bones Empress without asecond thought...
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« Reply #518 on: October 16, 2008, 10:38:35 AM »
Well, interesting and wonderful pictures with the dogs. I did not know about her love to animals and pets. Maybe they could give her more than certain people. It's well known that the Habsburgs loved bigger dogs, but well she's wasn't a Habsburg, but a Wittelsbach, so what about them? Were they usually lovers of dogs or other animals and was this some kind of tradition or was it only Sisi, who loved them? And: Did she only have dogs or other animals, like cats, etc as well?
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« Reply #519 on: October 16, 2008, 12:00:45 PM »
She loved also horses and parrots. But she had love to animals in common. In her possession were a lot of animals. I read somewhere, that in one room she had portraits of her favorite horses on walls. It was propably in Hermes villa.
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« Reply #520 on: October 16, 2008, 02:17:07 PM »
Yep, one of the earliest gift from her husband was a parrot.  ;)
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« Reply #521 on: October 17, 2008, 08:54:12 AM »
This picture is totally new for me

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« Reply #522 on: October 17, 2008, 02:27:59 PM »
I like her "Wilma Flintstone necklace".  ;)
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« Reply #523 on: October 17, 2008, 02:54:45 PM »
Wonderful portrait....you can certainly see why She was considered a great Beauty!
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Re: Empress Elisabeth, Part I
« Reply #524 on: October 17, 2008, 06:06:09 PM »
Funeral of Archduchess Sophie



Statue of young Emperor Franz Joseph I.

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