i wonder what kinda of an impact the suicide of her father had on her...i mean....how old was she when he killed himself?
Erzsi was born on september 1883 and her father´s death apparently through suicide happened on january 1889. So, the archduchess has five years and four months.
I don´t know much about Erzsi´s childhood, so I can´t tell you how the death of her father affected her while she was growing up. I really want to know more about her relationship with her paternal grandparents and her aunts, and also about her relationship with her own mother. Stephanie had not the support and emotional protection of the imperial family after the tragedy. I read somewhere (I don´t remember why...) that her mother in law, Sissi, blamed her for the unhappiness of Rudolf...and, in some ways, for the sad story between Rudolf and Mary Vetsera.
