Crown Princess Stéphanie Was Meant to Be Empress—Then Austria Tried to Silence Her
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Crown Princess Stéphanie Was Meant to Be Empress—Then Austria Tried to Silence Her
At sixteen, Stéphanie of Belgium married Crown Prince Rudolf and was meant to become Empress of Austria. Instead she was given an illness her doctors lied about, a husband who died at Mayerling beside a seventeen-year-old girl, and a mother-in-law, Empress Sisi, who called her a dromedary. When she finally published her side of the story in 1935, the police in Vienna went from bookshop to bookshop to seize it.
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Crown Princess Stéphanie Was Meant to Be Empress—Then Austria Tried to Silence Her
Palaces & Castles
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Crown Princess Stéphanie Was Meant to Be Empress—Then Austria Tried to Silence Her
At sixteen, Stéphanie of Belgium married Crown Prince Rudolf and was meant to become Empress of Austria. Instead she was given an illness her doctors lied about, a husband who died at Mayerling beside a seventeen-year-old girl, and a mother-in-law, Empress Sisi, who called her a dromedary. When she finally published her side of the story in 1935, the police in Vienna went from bookshop to bookshop to seize it.
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#history #royalfamily #documentary