Vilma Degischer

Chronicles the married life of the young empress as she tries to adjust to formal and strict rules in the palace, and an overbearing mother-in-law.

A dramatization of the life of Austria’s Empress Elizabeth follows her romance with Emperor Franz Joseph, through her reign, to her fateful years.

A preteen 19th-century lass of noble birth charms everyone she meets and, when she comes of age, the Hapsburg emperor pursues her to fascinating ends.

Follows the exploits of a young Austrian empress from her days at Hungary’s Godolle Palace through her potentially fatal tuberculosis and beyond.