The life after wedding

It seemed that Elisabeth had a wonderful life after wedding.  Unfortunately her life starting to struggle on her duties as an empress. She had problems with her health.  She had beatiful children but she could not take care of them.

 Sophie

Sophie, her mother in law  never cared for Elisabeth, and her attempts to train Sissi to become a proper Empress did not take into account the girl's own wishes and needs. Franz Joseph was deeply devoted to his mother, and only rarely supported his wife against her. The couple's first two children.  Sophie was  born in 1855, who was named by her grandmother without Sisi's being consulted.   Gisela was born in 1856. Both children were installed in a nursery near Sophie's apartments.  They had been raised by attendants chosen bytheir grandmother Sophie.  Sisi had little power over their upbringing, and little contact with the girls at all. Unfortunately little Sophie passed away.  This misfortune became used as proof that the young Empress was unfit to be a mother.

By this time Elisabeth was widely regarded as one of the most beautiful women in Europe. However  she took great pains to maintain. Much of her time and attention was taken up with preserving and improving her looks. It took three hours each morning just to do her hair.   Periodically she would bathe in olive oil.  Every three weeks for washing her hair had been used  brandy and raw eggs. In her efforts to keep herself slim, she frequently keept starvation diets. She often would eat nothing more than eggs, milk, and broth. The one aspect of her appearance Elisabeth was unable to control was her teeth, which remained yellow despite the efforts of the best dentists in Europe. To disguise this fact, she took to opening her mouth as little as possible when speaking and holding a handkerchief in front of it; when added to the low speaking voice which was a result of her shyness, these mannerisms made understanding the Empress nearly impossible at times.

Sissi 

Her one real political contribution in 45 years as Empress occurred in 1867, when she helped pressure Franz Joseph into the Hungarian Compromise, which reestablished the Hungarian Constitution and turned the Austrian Empire into the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary. The couple's coronation as King and Queen of Hungary took place on June 8.

Corronation of Elizabeth

    After Franz Joseph“s  dead, Elisabeh spent no more than a few weeks each year in Vienna. During an overnight stop in Geneva in 1898, her presence in the city was revealed in a newspaper, although she had been travelling under an assumed name for privacy. On September 10, as she was walking from her hotel to the ship on which she was to leave for Montreux, Elisabeth was stabbed with a sharpened file by Italian anarchist Luigi Lucheni. Lucheni had come to Geneva planning to assassinate the Prince of Orléans; when he failed to arrive, Lucheni had chosen the Empress of Austria, whose presence in the city he'd learned about in the newspaper, as the next best victim available to him, unaware--and uncaring--that in fact she shared his opinions on aristocracy. The file poked a tiny hole in Elisabeth's heart; blood leaked out so slowly that at first no one was aware that she had been injured. She made it to the ship, but shortly afterwards collapsed. Her companion at first assumed the Empress had merely fainted, and when loosening her bodice noticed a spot of blood and a hole in her camisole. She was rushed back to the hotel, but it was too late for the doctors to do anything. Lucheni, sentenced to life in prison, hanged himself in 1910.