BS: Austrian feminist princess

Subject: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 10:52 PM

Can anybody tell me the name of an Austrian feminist princess or empress, 19th century, who was popular with the populace? There was a movie about her five or ten years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: katlaughing
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 11:08 PM

Maybe Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary? though that link doesn't say much about feminism.

Marie Antionette was Austrian and feminist in a way and Sofia Coppola made a movie about her recently which had rave reviews.

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 11:30 PM

Wasn't Catherine the Great also Austrian?

~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: wysiwyg
Date: 17 Mar 09 - 11:39 PM

From IMDb:

"Fall of Eagles" (1974)
Archduchess Sophia of Austria-Hungary arranges a marriage of convenience between her young son Franz-Josef, the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and the Bavarian princess....

"Napoléon" (2002)
...divorcing Josephine, he marries the Austrian princess MARIE-LUISE...

Austeria (1983)
...of desperate Jews, there is also an Austrian baroness on the run and an Hungarian...


~S~

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: Acorn4
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 07:18 AM

Empress Maria Theresa of Austria surprised a lot of people -although she was actually 18C.

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: frogprince
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 01:19 PM

"she was actually 18C." Forgive me, but:...

That's a remarkably big cup size for a girl that thin!

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: Amos
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 01:52 PM

18C?? It's miniscule, man. Out in Texas they declare that cup as off-limits for being undersize.


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Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: Joe Offer
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 05:35 PM

Hi, Leeneia - I think Kat's right. You're probably talking about Sissi --- Elisabeth of Austria-Hungary (24 December 1837 – 10 September 1898). Wikipedia says she was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia as spouse of Emperor Francis Joseph I. From an early age, she was called "Sisi" by family and friends.

When I was in Budapest, I got the impression from our tour guide that she lived much of her adult life in Budapest and that she was wildly popular there. Romy Schneider starred in three "Sissi" films directed by Ernst Marischka.

-Joe-

Subject: RE: BS: Austrian feminist princess
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 18 Mar 09 - 07:46 PM

Thanks, everybody. Sissi is the person I was thinking of.

Last weekend I went to visit a man who collects, restores, and sells magnificent clocks called Vienna Regulators. (see snclocks.com) On three of the clocks were faces of a woman wearing a certain kind of bonnet. I thought they might be images of Sissi, but I couldn't remember her name.

I'm going to see if there are any paintings of her with a bonnet like that.