The Private Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

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By (author): "Barbara Cartland"
Publish Date: January 1st 1959
The Private Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
ISBN0552107727
ISBN139780552107723
AsinThe Private Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria
“The Wild Rose of Bavaria,” Elizabeth was called.At sixteen this innocent and beautiful girl fell in love with her cousin Franz Joseph, handsome young Emperor of Austria. It was a romance that delighted all Austria. Elizabeth was married like a fairy-tale princess to one of the richest and most important kings on earth.Her subjects adored her. Men worshipped her beauty and charm. Yet Elizabeth’s heart was soon troubled. The rigid court etiquette was stifling the wild rose of Bavaria and turning her into a hothouse flower. Her mother-in-law despised and dominated her. Her husband’s indiscreet affairs were the scandal of Vienna. But Elizabeth’s spirit would not be broken. When her glamorous and dramatic life ended in a flaming climax of suicide and assassination, her husband said, “There is no other such woman on earth.”Barbara Cartland has created many exquisite heroines in her bestselling romantic novels. None is more appealing than the real Empress Elizabeth, lovely, proud, and longing for love.