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Queen Elisabeth - Austria

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, born on December 24, 1837, grew up in an unstructured environment and married Emperor Franz Joseph in 1854, becoming queen of Hungary in 1867. She faced conflicts with her mother-in-law and the Viennese aristocracy due to her disdain for court etiquette. Elisabeth was assassinated by Luigi Lucheni on September 10, 1898, in Geneva, where she succumbed to her injuries shortly after the attack.

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Queen Elisabeth - Austria

Empress Elisabeth of Austria, born on December 24, 1837, grew up in an unstructured environment and married Emperor Franz Joseph in 1854, becoming queen of Hungary in 1867. She faced conflicts with her mother-in-law and the Viennese aristocracy due to her disdain for court etiquette. Elisabeth was assassinated by Luigi Lucheni on September 10, 1898, in Geneva, where she succumbed to her injuries shortly after the attack.

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QUEEN

ELISABETH OF
AUSTRIA
EMPRESS ELISABETH ’S UPBRINGING
Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie was born on 24 December
1837 in the Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich, Bavaria. She
was the third child and second daughter of
Duke Maximilian Joseph in Bavaria and
Princess Ludovika of Bavaria, the half-sister of King
Ludwig I of Bavaria. Maximilian was considered peculiar;
he loved circuses and traveled the Bavarian countryside
to escape his duties. The family's homes were the
Herzog-Max-Palais in Munich during winter and
Possenhofen Castle in the summer months, far from the
protocols of court. Sisi and her siblings grew up in an
unrestrained, unstructured environment; she often
skipped her lessons to go riding in the countryside.
EMPRESS ELISABETH ‘S
MARRIAGE
Elisabeth was the daughter of the Bavarian duke
Maximilian Joseph. In August 1853 she met her cousin
Franz Joseph, then aged 23, and he quickly fell in love
with the 15-year-old Elisabeth, who was regarded as
the most beautiful princess in Europe. Soon after their
marriage she became involved in many conflicts with
her mother-in-law, Archduchess Sophia, which led to an
estrangement with the court. Generally popular with
her subjects, she offended Viennese aristocracy by her
impatience with the rigid etiquette of the court.
Elisabeth was the empress consort of Austria from April
24, 1854, when she married Emperor Franz Joseph.
She was also queen of Hungary (crowned June 8, 1867)
after the Austro-Hungarian Ausgleich, or Compromise.
LUIGI LUCHENI ‘S EARLY LIFE

Louis Lucheni was born in Paris on April 22, 1873. His


father, unknown, and his mother, Luigia Lucchini, left the
baby to a foundling hospital. The child was moved to Italy
in August 1874 and transferred between orphanages
and foster families. Lucheni worked odd jobs in Italy,
Switzerland, and Austria-Hungary. He served in the
military for three years and moved to Switzerland, where
he befriended anarchists in Lausanne.
EMPRESS ELISABETH’S
ASSASSINATION
On September 10, 1898, Lucheni used a tapered file to fatally stab
Empress Elisabeth of Austria during her visit to Geneva. Elisabeth and her
lady-in-waiting Countess Sztáray had departed their hotel on Lake Geneva to ride a
paddle steamer to Montreux. They walked without their attendants, as Elisabeth
disdained royal processions. On the docks in the early afternoon, Lucheni
approached and stabbed Elisabeth below her left breast with a wooden-handled, four-
inch file, the kind used to file the eyes of industrial needles. Badly wounded, she
nevertheless continued walking, with the support of two other people, 100 yards to
board the departing steamer. The steamer returned to shore after Countess Sztáray
first noticed Elisabeth's bleeding, whereupon the Empress was carried back to the
hotel on a makeshift stretcher. Two doctors pronounced her dead within an hour of
the attack. Documentation of the autopsy was destroyed.
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By K .Brinda -7A1 -7105

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