first of all, everyone talks about elizabeth's beauty and i don't get why. out of all three she looks the ugliest to me. ileana is much more beautiful while mignon is pretty. elizabeth is just plain ugly (there are some good pictures of her but most of them she has those huge brows and cold look and that strange hair and that awfully white skin... i would not be surprised if she opened her mouth and a pair of vampire teeth came out
). she may have been a pretty child (and she was, although i don't like all her childhood photos either, i think mignon looked much better) but as a woman... urgh...
second of all, marie did not hate her mother in law, but she didn't have a good opinion of her either. she said at some point that when she married nando, antonia used her to make the other daughter in law jealous with the amount of attention missy was getting. and then used the same tactic with nando's younger brother's wife. marie liked leopold a lot better.
