Chapter 449: The Beauty of Princess Sissi
After Pingguo was knocked down, he couldn't get up on his own, in Mozart's house.
Bank card theft.
With the help of Ping Hanhan and the staff, she finally came to the exit and was arranged to rest on a chair.
Ping Hanhan said: "Shall we call the police?" Why don't you have the staff here call the police for us? ”
Pingguo nodded and said, "Okay, after telling the staff, you, hurry up, report the lost bank card online first!" ”
I saw Ping Hanhan and the staff communicating and communicating in English.
After a while, I saw the staff in the souvenir shop walking over with a black paper clip, chattering for a long time, and then handed it to Ping Hanhan.
Soon, Ping Hanhan took the wallet that was lost and recovered again, and Ping Guo quickly opened it and looked at it again: Sure enough, it was Ping Hanhan's Dutch bank card!
Ping Hanhan said: "The girl at the cashier said that she had just found it, and at first she thought it was a shopping consumer who had lost it here. I didn't see any girls to pay, so I didn't know what was going on. Mom, you said, we still don't report to the police? ”
Pingguo smiled and said, "There's always luck by our side!" Of course, no longer call the police, let alone in a foreign country, naturally don't call the police! ”
Pingguo silently prayed in the depths of his heart, feeling that the green silk above his head was still protecting.
Then, Pingguo took out the tubular pain relief ointment made in Japan again, and applied it again on the neck and waist, so that the feeling of cold and crispy surging all over the body and mind, and then Pingguo could move his waist, an unexpected kind of rapid recovery, Pingguo thought, I'm afraid it's not just the effect of the ointment.
So, under the leadership of Ping Hanhan, Pingguo came to the Meiquan Palace in the suburbs.
Schönbrunn Palace is a Baroque building located southwest of the Austrian capital Vienna, once the imperial palace of the Holy Roman, Austrian, Austro-Hungarian and Habsburg families, and is now Vienna's most prestigious tourist attraction, Schönbrunn Palace and its gardens are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The summer palace of the main chamber of the Habsburg in Austria takes its name from a spring.
It was originally an open green space, and once, when the emperor was hunting, he drank a spring water, and his heart was refreshed, and he called this spring "beautiful spring".
Later, Queen Marigi Theresia ordered the construction of an imposing palace and baroque gardens with an area of 26,000 square meters, second only to the Palace of Versailles in France.
There are 1,400 rooms in the palace, 44 of which are Rococo and elegant and chic, but most are baroque.
The palace is dedicated to oriental classical architecture, such as the Chinese-style room inlaid with rosewood, ebony, and ivory, and the Japanese-style room decorated with lacquer and lacquer, and the interior of the room is also unified and coordinated in the oriental style, and the walls and ceiling are inlaid with ceramics.
Among the dazzling ceramic furnishings, there are Chinese celadons, Ming Dynasty Wanli colored porcelain plates and cuohua vases, etc., which are in addition to China.
After the death of Maria Theresia, Schönbrunn Palace was uninhabited until the beginning of the 19th century, when Franz II, the last emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, again used it as a summer residence, and Napoleon occupied and lived in Schönbrunn Palace twice, in 1805 and 1809.
During the time of Franz II, Schönbrunn Palace underwent a renovation, and Schönbrunn Palace was renovated.
The façade of Schönbrunn Palace is painted in an original ochre color, which is why the German word for ochre is called "Schönbrunn yellow". All Austro-Hungarian and Habsburg royal buildings have been painted in this color since then.
In 1830, Sissi's husband, Franz Joseph I, the first emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, was born in Schönbrunn Palace, he was the eldest grandson of Franz II, and his parents, Franz Karl and Princess Sophie, also lived in Schönbrunn Palace, where Franz Joseph I's childhood and youth spent the summer.
After succeeding to the throne of Austria and King of Hungary in 1848, Schönbrunn Palace experienced another glorious era, as it was the favorite and longest-lived residence of Franz Joseph I until 1916, when he completed his final journey at Schönbrunn Palace.
At present, the Schönbrunn Palace concert is also another top brand concert in the world music scene created by the Vienna City Government after the New Year's Concert in the Vienna Musikverein.
In the 21st century, when Europe is gradually moving towards unification, the global music festival named after Europe is held in Vienna, the holy land of classical music, in addition to reviving and promoting classical music and strengthening the main position of traditional European classical culture, its open and open concept makes the concert glow with a truly people-friendly global village style.
While the Musikverein New Year's Concert features works by the Strauss family, the Schönbrunn Palace Concert features a wide range of works by the world's greatest musicians.
The magnificent performance scene is intended to express the eternal theme of the four seas under the music.
In addition to the concerts still performed by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by world-renowned conductors and performed by world-class artists, the performance venue in the back garden of Schönbrunn Palace can be described as a holy place of Tianfu, which is unique, and its magnificent prosperity is like the rebirth of a royal grand celebration.
That's why Schönbrunn Palace concerts have received the support of the President and Chancellor of Austria as well as artists from all over the world.
Austrian national television, German television, and Japanese television station NHK also broadcast live to the world, and hundreds of millions of TV viewers around the world can watch the performance on television.
As early as 1853, the mother of the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, the domineering Princess Sophie of Bavaria, arranged for the emperor to marry Duchess Helen, the eldest daughter of her sister Princess Ludvika, in order to marry her niece as a daughter-in-law rather than accept a stranger.
But Franz Josef's mother, Princess Sophie, who was known as "the only man in the Hofburg Palace", took the emperor's obedience for granted.
The Duchess and Helen were invited to visit Austrian tourist destinations and accepted the emperor's formal marriage proposal, and the 15-year-old Princess Sissi accompanied her mother and sister in a horse-drawn carriage from Munich.
Because the Duchess suffered from migraines, they had to make a stopover so that they did not arrive on time, and the carriage with their evening gowns never arrived. So, in the suburbs, Franz Joseph met the cheerful and optimistic Princess Sissi, who immediately fell in love with her.
In the end, Franz Joseph did not propose to Helen, but openly disobeyed his mother's wishes and told her that he would not marry if he could not have Princess Sissi.
Five days later, Princess Sisi and Franz Joseph officially announced their engagement.
Eight months later, on April 24, 1854, the couple were married in the Augustinian Church in Vienna.
The wedding lasted three days, and Princess Sisi received a dowry equivalent to $240,000 today.
The suffocating life at the Habsburg court became a major challenge for Princess Sissi.
Just 10 months after the marriage, Sissi gave birth to her first daughter, the Archduchess Sophie. However, Princess Sophie, who sees Sissi as a "stupid young mother", not only named her child after her own name without Sissi's consent, but also took full responsibility for the baby's care, refusing to let Sissi breastfeed or take care of her own child. A year later, when Sissi's second daughter, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, was born, Queen Sophie also took the child away from Sissi.
One day, Princess Sissi found a booklet on her desk with underlines underneath some words:
…… The queen's duty is naturally to give birth to an heir to the throne. If the queen is lucky enough to bring the crown prince to the king, then her ambitions should come to an end - she should never interfere in the affairs of the imperial government, caring whether these are women's tasks or not...... If the queen had not given birth to a son, she would have been nothing more than a foreigner in the country, and a very dangerous foreigner. Because she never wished to be treated lovingly here, and must have long hoped to return to her native country, she always managed to win the king by unusual means. She will endanger the king, the country, and the empire by intriguing and sowing discord for status and power......
This malicious pamphlet is generally believed to come from Sissi's mother-in-law, Sophie. The political intervention mentioned in the booklet refers to Sissi's influence on her husband's rule in Italy and Hungary. When Sissi traveled to Italy with her husband, she persuaded him to have mercy on political prisoners. In 1857, Sissi made her first visit to Hungary with her husband and her two daughters, perhaps because of Sissi's popularity in Hungary and her ability to take her away from the constraints of Austrian court life, which left a deep and lasting impression on Sissi.
This was "the first time Sisi had met people of different personalities in Franz Joseph's country, and she became enthusiastic about making friends and disdained to hide her emotions...... She felt a deep compassion in her soul for the self-respecting, determined people of this land......"
Unlike Sophie, who despised the Hungarians, Sissi felt that they were so relatable, and she began to learn Hungarian. And Hungary also admires Sisi very much.
However, the trip was also a tragedy, as both of Sissi's children suffered from diarrhoea during the trip, and 2-year-old Sophie gradually weakened until she died. Today, it is widely believed that she died of typhus.
Sophie's untimely death was a huge blow to Sissi, and she began to fall into depression, followed by a lifelong depression that haunted her.
On August 21, 1858, Sissi finally gave birth to an heir to the empire, Rudolph.
Sissi's influence in the court has finally begun to increase, but illness has also begun to plague her.
Sympathy for Hungary also made Sisi an ideal mediator. As Empress of Austria, Sissi loved neighbouring Hungary from the bottom of her heart, with its music, horses and knights, as well as the architecture of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. More importantly, she admired the legendary Hungarian Count Gyulo Andráşi.
Count Andráhi was called the "handsome hangman". In 1848, he was sentenced to death in absentia for his participation in the rebellion against Austria's excessive interference in Hungary. In 1857, Andráhi was pardoned and returned from exile to his homeland, where he soon became a leading figure.
The reason why Princess Sisi admires Andrassie is because he, like her, is rebellious and strong in his bones, and is not bound by tradition, and the suave Andrassie also loves Sissi with a humble attitude. It is said that the two were once very close.
Under the leadership of Bismarck, the "iron-blooded prime minister" of Europe, the Kingdom of Prussia rose rapidly and became a hegemon in Europe.
Sensing the threat, the Austrian Emperor Joseph realized that Austria needed a close alliance with Hungary against Prussia, so he asked Sisi to intervene between the Austrian Emperor and Count Andrách. For these two men, who had been hostile to each other, Sissi was the only one they could both look at and trust in the other way.
Thanks to her efforts, in 1867, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was founded.
In return, Andrassy was appointed the first Hungarian prime minister.
On June 8 of the same year, in the presence of Andrási, Franz Josef and Sisi were crowned king and queen of Hungary [4].
Hungary presented the couple with a country mansion twenty miles east of Budapest as a coronation gift, where Princess Sisi gave birth to a daughter, Marie Valerie. Marie Valerie is known as the "Hungarian child", and Sissi decides to raise this child herself, pouring all her pent-up maternal love into her little daughter, which almost suffocates Marie Valerie.
Queen Sophie died in Vienna in 1872.
However, instead of staying at the Austrian court to enjoy her victory, Sissi began her life of travel, rarely seeing her children, saying: "If I arrive at a place and know that I will never leave, it will be a hell if I continue to stay in heaven."
After the death of her son, Sisi built a palace on the Greek island of Corfu and named it Achilles Palace after the Greek warrior Achilles in Homer's Iliad. It has now been converted into a museum.
Newspapers have published articles about her passion for horseback riding, eating modestly, planning exercise, and fashion taste, and even going shopping in Budapest's fashion stores. Naturally, there is a series of rumored lover news, but there has never been reliable evidence that she has had an affair.
The funniest thing is that among the rumored lovers of the legend is the fashionable Anglo-Scotsman William George Middleton, who is said to be not only the lover of Lady Henrietta Blanche Hozier, but also the father of Clemmentina Churchill (wife of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill).
Rumor has it that the reasonable Princess Sissi even encouraged her husband to maintain a close relationship with actress Katarina Schlatter.
Assassinated
In 1898, at the age of 60, Sissi traveled anonymously to Geneva, Switzerland, when someone in the hotel where she stayed leaked the news that the Empress of Austria was a guest at the hotel.
At 1:35 p.m. on 10 September 1898, Sissi and her maid left the hotel and walked along the Mont Blanc promenade on Lake Geneva to board the steamship Geneva bound for Montreux. Since Sissi didn't like too many people to march together, her attendants had already taken the train to neighboring Territe.
At this time, Luigi Lucheni, a 25-year-old Italian anarchist, kept his eyes fixed on the empress's sun umbrella.
According to Irma Starry, when the ship was about to leave, Lucheni stabbed Princess Sissi with a 4-inch (100 mm) long file inserted into a wooden handle.
It is said that Lucheni had planned to assassinate Philippe, Duke of Orleans, a pretender to the French throne, but Philippe left Geneva early for Valais. When Lucheni learned from a Geneva newspaper that the elegant lady who traveled in Geneva under the name "Countess of Hohenems" was the Empress of Austria, Lucheni, who could not find Philip, decided to assassinate Sissi.
After being attacked by Lucheni, Sisi fell to the ground and a coachman helped her up.
A man named Planna noticed that the queen was still walking towards the steamer Geneva, about 91 meters towards the gangway, and boarded the ship, after which the maid let go of the arm holding Sissi, after which the queen lost consciousness and fell to the ground.
The maid calls for a doctor, but only one former nurse and one passenger on board are able to help Sissi.
The captain, who did not know Sissi's true identity, persuaded the countess to go ashore and take her companion back to the hotel where she was staying, and when the ship had sailed out of the port, he called in three men to carry Sissi to the top deck and place her on a bench.
The maid took off Sissi's long tunic and cut the ties of Sissi's corset so that Sissi could breathe.
Sissi seemed to wake up, and the maid asked if it was painful, Sissi replied "no", and then she asked, "What happened?" Then he lost consciousness again.
The maid noticed a small brown stain on the upper left side of the queen's chest.
The panicked maid identified herself to the captain, and the ship returned to Geneva.
Six sailors carried Sissi on an improvised stretcher back to the hotel where she was staying, and by the time Sissi was carried from the stretcher to the bed, Sissi had already died.
In order to confirm whether the queen died, the doctor cut open the artery of Sissi's left arm, and found no traces of blood, and at 2:10 p.m., Sissi was pronounced dead.
When Emperor Franz Joseph received the telegram of Sissi's death, he feared that Sisi had committed suicide, and it was not until he received a third message about Sissi's death that he realized that Sissi had been assassinated and not committed suicide. A telegram was sent asking the Emperor to agree to an autopsy on Sissi, to which the Emperor replied that any procedure under Swiss law should be followed.
The next day, the doctor conducted an autopsy on Sissi's body and found that the murder weapon had penetrated 85 millimeters of Sissi's chest, and that Sissi's fractured fourth rib had punctured the lungs and pericardium, and had penetrated the heart from the top before leaving the bottom of the left ventricle.
Because the file that stabbed Sissi was sharp and thin, and she was subjected to tremendous pressure from the corset, the blood flow from the pericardial cavity around the heart slowed down, just slowly dripping. Her heart continued to beat until the pericardial cavity was filled with blood, which explains why Sissi was able to walk up the ship's gangway from the scene of the attack.
Doctors took photographs of the wounds and sent them to the Attorney General of Switzerland, but the Attorney General, on the instructions of Emperor Franz Joseph, destroyed the photographs and the autopsy report.
Empress Sisi was buried in the main burial grounds of the Habsburg family in Vienna.
It is said that Franz Joseph I once whispered to himself: "She will never know how much I love her." ”
Sissi's beauty was at its peak in the 60s of the 19th century. In 1864, Sissi attended her brother's wedding, where she was described as "radiant" and the Queen of Saxony praised her as "stunningly beautiful". She wore a white Crenolin skirt with a star pattern, and her braided hair was embellished with the image of a diamond star, which was depicted on canvas by the famous painter Franz Xavel Winterhalt at the time, becoming her most classic image, and in more than a hundred years of history, it has been imitated by countless people. In a letter to his mother, the U.S. minister in Vienna wrote: "The Empress was a miracle of beauty—tall and slender, with a beautiful figure, with abundant light brown hair, a low Greek forehead, gentle eyes, red lips with a sweet smile, a slightly beautiful voice, and a shy but very elegant manners." ”
Princess Sissi discovered early on that her only strength, and the only thing she could control, was her appearance and figure.
Therefore, she has always been keen to groom her appearance and make it the main source of her self-esteem, and her excessively obsessive perfectionist attitude has made Sissi a slave to her beauty and figure.
Sissi is 172cm tall, and even after 4 months of pregnancy, her weight remains at around 50 kg. Sissi kept her figure extremely slim through tight binding, and even after three consecutive pregnancies, she began to stop having sex with her husband, and Princess Sophie, who was looking forward to Sissi's continuous pregnancy, was even more angry at Sissi's exaggerated waistline.
This may be the only thing a helpless woman can do to protect herself, Pingguo always thinks so, this is no way, there is nothing to do.
Of course, Sissi also spends several hours a day doing physical exercises – parallel bars, rings, dumbbells, weightlifting, fencing, and the intensity of the exercises is very intense. Thanks to diligent practice, she was still able to swing back and forth dexterously and freely in a tight-fitting evening gown suit in her old age. In the very conservative social atmosphere of the time, it was very unseemly for the Empress of Austria to swing on these horizontal bars and parallel bars, and when the rumors spread everywhere in the newspapers, the emperor who defended his wife resorted to the killer tactic of seizing the media.
Sissi is a very skilled horseman, and in addition to riding horses for long periods of time, she also walks at high speed for hours every day.
In order to keep her safe, it is often necessary for a female officer who is good at walking to follow her. Sometimes on a whim, she walked a long road of more than ten kilometers and had to let a carriage follow her.
This may be the only thing a helpless woman can do to protect herself, Pingguo always thinks so, this is no way, there is nothing to do.
Princess Sissi is a hairdressing maniac.
She had long, stunningly beautiful chestnut hair, shiny and thick like a cloak, reaching to her legs.
She herself sighed with extra care of her hair: "I am a slave to my hair." ”
She washed her hair every three weeks, spending the whole day washing it, treating her hair with a variety of expensive essential oils, including brandy and eggs.
She spends three hours a day combing her hair, and in order to make the queen happy, the barber hides a strip of rubber under her skirt to glue off the fallen hair, making her think she hasn't lost a single hair.
Sissi also elevates beauty routines to religious rituals, with every bath, wash, and combing done with the devotion and sacredness of a religious ceremony.
When combing her hair, the barber would carry a silver tray for her fallen hair, and finally show her the hair, and the barber would repent of it, and then she would fall to her knees and say softly, "I always bow down at your feet." "This is the end of the combing process.
This may be the only thing a helpless woman can do to protect herself, Pingguo always thinks so, this is no way, there is nothing to do.
Even if Princess Sissi is the queen, there are still many things that she can't be the master of, so she has to do these helpless things carefully and meticulously.
The anarchists let her beautiful out of sight, but she will live forever in people's hearts, Pingguo sighed after visiting Schönbrunn Palace.