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Hermesvilla. Hermesvilla is a palace in the Lainzer Tiergarten in Vienna, a former hunting area for the Habsburg nobility. Emperor Franz Joseph I gave it to his wife Empress Elisabeth (nicknamed "Sisi"), and he called it the "castle of dreams.“
Elisabeth (born Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie in Bavaria; 24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898), nicknamed Sisi or Sissi, [1] was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Josef I of Austria on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
The Royal Palace of Gödöllő (German: Schloss Gödöllő, Hungarian: Gödöllői Királyi Kastély) or Grassalkovich Castle is an imperial and royal Hungarian palace located in the municipality of Gödöllő in Pest county, central Hungary. It is famous for being a favourite place of the Queen of Hungary.
Elisabeth's Childhood Was Pretty Wild. Empress Sisi was born into a prominent Bavarian family—in fact, her mother was the King of Bavaria's daughter.
Empress Sisi from Netflix's 'The Empress' was assassinated by an anarchist while on vacation and died tragically at the age of 60, shocking the world.
Originally the palace was a Biedermeier villa belonging to a Viennese notary named Josef August Eltz. In 1850 it was purchased by Eduard Mastalier. After Franz Joseph's engagement to Princess Elisabeth of Bavaria in 1853, Franz Joseph's mother, Princess Sophie of Bavaria, purchased the villa as a wedding present for the couple.
A new true-crime podcast about the theft of iconic Austrian empress Sisi’s diamond in the 1990s is set to launch on Curiouscast later this month. Written by Emma Jane Kirby and hosted by Seren ...
Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil El-Sisi [a] (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has been serving as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014.