Thanks for all the portraits, there are many more than I would have thought at first!
In a Sissi bio, written by a Spanish author and recently published, it says that Ludovika was a real matchmaker; this is reinforced by another writer in his bio of Ludwig II and by the fact that out of her daughters, one became Empress, one Queen, one Duchess and one Countess, not to mention the fact that Sophie Charlotte almost became Queen while her engagement to her cousin Ludwig of Bavaria lasted. I'd like to know if Ludovika's mother, Karoline Friedricke Wilhelmine was a devoted matchmaker too? If her daughters became Queens, Archduchess, etc, I'm inclined to think she was a matchmaker too... What was the exact illness that led Maximiliane (1810-1821) to the grave? And does anyone know why the eldest son (of Maximilian I's and Karoline) died so young? I mena which exatc illness. What was the relationship between the sisters? I find it amusing that there were twos ets of twins
