The Empress Elisabeth of Austria had four children with her husband, Emperor Franz Joseph I. Her first child, Archduchess Sophie, died at just 2 years old in 1857.

A tour will lead you through apartments belonging to Maria Theresa as well as Emperor Franz Joseph, his wife Elisabeth (better known as Sisi) and Archduke Franz Karl.

A tour will lead you through apartments belonging to Maria Theresa as well as Emperor Franz Joseph, his wife Elisabeth (better known as Sisi) and Archduke Franz Karl.

The young Sissi wed Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria at the age of 16, a marriage that thrust her into formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and found unpleasant. Eccentric and ...

Emperor Franz Joseph I with Empress Elisabeth and their children, Rudolf and Gisela (L). Photo: Empress Sisi's daughter, Marie (R). Photo: ... In 1890, Valerie married her cousin, Archduke Franz ...

View Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria - tea set (1907) By J. C. Klinkosch; silver, partly ivory handles and insulations; height of hot water kettle with rechaud 28.5 cm (without handle), tray 62.5 x ...

Archduke Franz Ferdinand Had A Chance To Escape Henry Guttmann Collection/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Although it’s well-known that the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s fatal shooting was the most ...

Austria has declared three days of national mourning following what appears to be the deadliest attack in its post-World War ...

In Zurich, sculptures and objects dating from between 1975 and 1990 by Franz West reveal the creative impulse of the artist.