Harry's not the only royal making headlines. More than a century after her death, Empress Elisabeth of Austria is enjoying an unprecedented pop-culture moment. She's the subject of hit Netflix series ...

“Every morning, every evening, the Empress must have a two-hour bath,” proclaims Countess Esterházy in Netflix’s The Empress. As Empress Elisabeth (Devrim Lingnau)—better known as Empress Sisi—slowly ...

Nearly 125 years after her assassination, the Empress Elisabeth of Austria — or Sisi to her enduring cultists — continues to inspire a veritable industry of portraiture in Europe: In the last year ...

The Netflix period drama The Empress gives the prestige TV treatment to one of Europe's most glamorous monarchs: Empress ...

“Sisi, where are you!” the Duchess Ludovika of Bavaria shouts at her daughter in the first scene of the new series The Empress. The 15-year-old Elisabeth, or Sisi as she was fondly called, is refusing ...

The reluctant empress known as “Sisi” painstakingly crafted her image through portraits and photographs, ensuring she would be remembered in a specific way Based on a True Story Elizabeth Djinis - ...

In The Empress—the new German royal drama based on the life of Austria’s Empress Sisi that debuted on Netflix this week—the first two episodes focus on her courtship with Franz Joseph I. They recount ...

Unlucky to come on the heels of Marie Kreutzer's similarly anachronistic Sisi portrait 'Corsage,' Frauke Finsterwalder's film nonetheless offers its own pleasures by centering the handmaid's tale.