Max Emanuel in Bayern

[Eric_Lowe]

Nice photo ! I think his hair got less blond as he grew up.

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

There aren't too much photos about him, thanks for sharing this, is totally new for me XD By the way, I haven't noticed that his hair looked of a lighter color as younger... I thought that the only blond was Karl Theodor (well, his hair remained blond more time)

[Eric_Lowe]

He, Karl Theodor & Sophie Charlotte were the blond ones in the family.

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

Well, remembering the painting of the Wittelsbach siblings done for Sissi he looks blond, but in photos he doesn't look as blond as Gackel or Sophie, their eyes look of being of a so light blue and Max Emanuel's look darker. Anyways, any other of the siblings were blond

[Rani]

I read in Hamanns book that Sisis hair got darker, from ash blond to chestnut brown.
So Maxs hair got probably darker, too.

[Yelena Aleksandrovna]

But Sissi didn't have blue (or other light color) eyes, and perhaps that's the reason of her being represented blonde on her first paintings (engagement and first years of marriage) about Max there's no doubt

[Eric_Lowe]

Sisi, Nene, Marie, Mathilde & Ludwig all had dark hair like Duke Max.

[THERRY]

A stylish and elegant princess Amelie in Bayern born Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

1892 By Dittmar , Munich

[Eric_Lowe]

She was elegant but died too young...

[MarieCharlotte]

A stylish and elegant princess Amelie in Bayern born Saxe-Coburg-Gotha

What an amazing picture! I have never seen a photo of Amélie which was taken shortly before her death. She reminds me a lot of her mother Clémentine and her sister Clotilde who also gained weight in their later years.

Amélie wrote "1893" on the photo. So I guess it must have been taken before June, because on 12 June 1893 her husband Max Emanuel died. As a widow she wouldn't have worn such an elegant dress, would she?
Or was the photo really done in 1892 as Therry wrote and Amélie dedicated it to her aunt ("Für die theuere Tante") one year later?

[Eric_Lowe]

Yes. She was devestated by his death and soon followed him to the grave. 

[Veronica]

Max Emanuel and Amalie

[THERRY]

Thank You Veronica. Two wonderful photos and absolutely new

[Veronica]

You're welcome. I've noticed that the picture I posted of Amalie was taken in the same ocassion that the one you posted Therry.

[Marc]

One more bigger photo of Amelie in 18th century dress(thanks to our fellow poster Beladona):