Obviously, we're all used to Netflix producing amazing period dramas based on the royals (yes, hi, The Crown, we see you), but while the British royal family dominates headlines daily, you might know ...

Sisi however, was a dark blonde, meaning the color suited the 15-year-old better. (Later, her chair would turn into her signature chestnut.) “Franz Joseph met his cousins at afternoon tea.

Franzi and Sisi’s affair began like a fairy tale. Franz Joseph had been Austria’s Emperor since he was 18. Now he was 23, and his managing mother Sophie thought it high time for him to marry.

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 ...

RTL Renews Royal Period Drama ‘Sisi’ for Third Season Dominique Devenport and Jannik Schümann return as Austrian Empress Elisabeth and husband Emperor Franz Joseph in the period series, which ...

Franz, sometimes also called Francis, Joseph I was born on August 18, 1830, according to Brittanica. He was the oldest child of Archduke Francis Charles and Sophia, daughter of King Maximilian I ...

Here's the true story of how Empress Sisi and Franz Joseph I fell in love IRL if you watched Netflix's 'The Empress' and want the real deal.

Helene was indeed the original intended bride of Franz Joseph. Princess Ludovika, Sisi’s mother, was the sister of Franz’s mother, Archduchess Sophie. The two women decided to wed their children to ...

Here's the true story of how Empress Sisi and Franz Joseph I fell in love IRL if you watched Netflix's 'The Empress' and want the real deal.