"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." Empress Sisi was born into a prominent Bavarian family—in fact, her mother was the King of Bavaria's ...

Shooting has begun on the fourth season of Beta’s hit series “Sisi,” which follows the life of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. Variety has been given the first exclusive pictures from the set of the new ...

Sisi, the daughter of the Bavarian Duke Max, grows up carefree and close to nature with her siblings at Lake Starnberg. When the young Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph is to marry her older sister Helene ...

Through her Hungarian teacher the young Empress Sissi is enchanted by Hungary, a country she has never visited, but feels an affinity with. The Council of Ministers wants to punish some Hungarian ...

The image of Empress Elisabeth is still shaped by film romance and courtly splendor. Yet, far from the Vienna Hofburg, the monarch sought a place beyond duty and protocol. A special role was played by ...