One more time; she did NOT die 'young'.......re-read previous posts made in regards to average age in that era. No need to reply to every post with blanket statements. First read, than comment!
I've read them, but I'm saying that her last photos can't be considered of an old lady today.
You can't look at history wiith today's standards in mind. Times were very different and things that seem so very odd or strange to us now, were very normal in the era they occurred. I love the fact that so many young people from allover the world are picking up an interest in European history, it warms my heart! But there is no need for 'hero worship' for certain people. They all put their pants on one leg at the time. Read other opinions than mainstream about those people. Throughout your postings I have picked up some things and I would like to ask you to read up first and comment later.
Today there is 'the internet', but when I was a young girl, there was none of this, just books and I read as much as I could, as quick as I could to 'get into' the personality of the historical person I was interested in. I read a number of 'opinions' and when I became an adult and understood life a little better, they all of a sudden made sense to me.
Keep going with your interest in history, but beside whatever Wikipedia has to offer, read, read, read.......
An example of this is in the post about the painting portraying Elisabeth's brothers and sisters; if one also is aware of the fashions in the 20th. Century, one knows this could not have been a painting of Elisabeth's parents. Don't focus so much on THE PERSON, look around in the same era they lived and what happened economically, socially etc.
A Library is a GREAT place to spend a couple of hours.......
