On 24th December 1837 Empress Elisabeth of Austria was born.
1855 . Anton Einsle [aged 53]. Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria [aged 17].
1855. Amanda Bergstedt [aged 13]. Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria [aged 17].
1860. Franz Schrotzberg [aged 48]. Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria [aged 22].
Around 1865. Franz Xaver Winterhalter [aged 59]. Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Austria [aged 27].
Adeline Horsey Recollections. The beautiful and unfortunate Empress Elizabeth of Austria [aged 39] rented Cottesbroke from my cousins the Langhams, and her exploits in the hunting-field are well known. Bay Middleton was always staying at Cottesbroke, and used generally to give the Empress a "lead".
The Empress found Sunday rather a dull day at Cottesbroke, so she had jumps made all round the park, and at 6 o'clock every Sunday morning she and Bay Middleton used to ride together, and taking the jumps became her unvarying Sunday amusement.
Her biographers have not flattered her when they describe her as being singularly handsome, for she was indeed a queenly figure, and I think her only personal defects were her hands and feet, which were large and ungainly. It is said that when Elizabeth first met the Empress Eugenie [aged 50] she was very jealous of her tiny extremities, for Eugenie's hands and feet were exceptionally small.
On 10th September 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria [aged 60] was assassinated being fatally stabbed in the heart by an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni.