With season 2 winning over fans, here is the true story behind the Netflix show 'The Empress', based on Empress Elisabeth of ...

Netflix's The Empress tells the historical story of Elisabeth "Sisi" von Wittelsbach, the Duchess of Bavaria who marries ...

Emperor Franz Joseph dies at the age of 86 because of pneumonia ... Franz married Elisabeth of Wittelsbach, often called 'Sissi'. They married when Elizabeth was 16 and he was 23.

Sissi, born Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria, had an incredible but troubled life. She disturbed the strict Viennese court conventions with her marriage to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary.