How did this wild girl marry a wealthy family?

This should be attributed to Sophie, the invisible empress of Austria, the mother of the young Emperor Franz Joseph. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

After the Revolution of 1848, Austria turned politically to Germany in an attempt to maintain its leadership in the German League and regain the authority that had been taken away by Prussia, and there was no easier way to do it than by a policy of marriage.

If you look closely at history, you will find that before the end of the First World War, the entire Western upper class was a "big family", and the concept of being the right family, and for political reasons, the royal family and aristocracy in the West were combined into a very, very large family through various marriages.

If you want to describe the First World War, the easiest way is to have an aunt who is the best in the world and a nephew who wants to learn a lesson, and another nephew who is ambitious to challenge authority. In the end, the two gangs of people respectively recruited a group of relatives to fight a bad battle, and when these two groups of people hit the dog's head with a pig's brain, and no one could move, a strong young man from afar joined in, and reaped the abundant fruits.

It is a pity that Sophie's good wishes were defeated by reality, she originally took a fancy to Princess Aina, the niece of the King of Prussia, and the young emperor was also very eye-to-eye with Aina, but unfortunately they were already engaged, and Prussia thought that the marriage with Austria was not in line with the line of the people (they wanted to be independent), and the result was that Sophie failed, and was later ridiculed by Prince Wilhelm I of Wilhelm.

Isn't it a little dizzy to see it, what is this Germany? And what about Prussia? Why did Sophie win over Germany?

In 1815, the Congress of Vienna Austria and Prussia formed the German Confederation, Prussia is located in the north of Germany, is the most powerful state in Germany, in 1848 revolutions broke out in various parts of Germany, Prussia defeated Austria in 1866 and established the North German Confederation the following year, and in 1871 the unified German Empire was established, which was later commonly known as Germany.

In this way, everyone should understand why Sophie has to have a German daughter-in-law, but political marriages are always the most unreliable.

The second time Sophie took a fancy to the Saxon princess Sidoni in the direction of Dresden, but unfortunately the little girl was frail and sickly, and Franz Josef did not take a fancy to it, so she gave up.

In the end, just like in the movie "Princess Sissi", Elizabeth finally became the lucky darling and married the emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph, the super diamond king.

Franz Josef is not what he is portrayed in the movie, in fact, this guy was not a junior brother when he was engaged to Princess Sissi, and the legend circulated in Viennese that the emperor's closest political adviser, the Count of Grüne, arranged an affair for the young emperor.

Princess Sissi married into the Vienna court, it can be described as basically everyone is very satisfied, Sophie is very satisfied, she found a German daughter-in-law for her son as she wished, Franci Joseph is also very happy, Sissi's charming, simple, moving and even a little silly, so that he is used to seeing a pretentious, false aristocratic lady He has a little fresh feeling.

Sissi's mother, Luca Microca, described it in one sentence: "A marriage proposal to the Austrian Emperor cannot be refused." At the same time, her dream also came true, marrying her daughter into a wealthy family.

So what does Sissi, as a party to be, think? Later she said, "Marriage is a ridiculous thing. Being betrayed as a 15-year-old child first made a promise that he did not understand, then regret for 30 years or more, and there is no way to free himself from it. ”

Well! It seems that it is correct to marry late and have children later, and children do not understand love.

In fact, the young Sissi married into a wealthy family, and she can be described by her mother, who actually stepped from the children's room to the queen's throne. The contrast between status and environment is simply not something that a little girl can imagine.

What should a queen look like, she should be able to handle all kinds of communication things like a courtesan, and she should be dignified like a bodhisattva, always giving people a feeling of worship, and she should be like a super female secretary, able to help the young emperor deal with national affairs.

It's a pity that none of these should be Xiao Siqian, she is shy and afraid of strangers, unwilling to attend all kinds of social balls and banquets, and is an idiot to politics, and she hates the rigid textbook-like etiquette and rules in the court, she is still too young and too "wild".

In terms of identity and family background, one side is a high-ranking royal family, and the other side is a small nobleman in the "countryside", and this little nobleman has no money.

The property that Princess Sisi brought with her was only a few thousand guldens (the currency unit of Austria at the time), and even the silver dowry that a bride was proud of at that time was pitifully small, and the total value was only 700 guldens.

It is not difficult to ask for a dowry worthy of the same status, but in those days even the brides of the wealthy burgher class proudly displayed their dowries under the curious gaze of their relatives, and it is not difficult to understand the contemptuous glances of some of the Viennese courtiers and the negative comments of the Austrian princes and nobles, and that money and possessions were of great importance in married life in any era.

A Cinderella is about to marry into a wealthy family, and this 15-year-old enthusiastic and righteous little girl, has been educated to take care of the poor and sick since she was a child, she does not have the arrogance of the nobility, she is familiar with the family conditions of the poor around her, she is not superficial, she is good at thinking, not satisfied with appearances, always trying to explore the "nature" and "truth" of things.

These good qualities were of little value to the court, and even became obstacles, and the absence of aristocratic arrogance was seen in Vienna at the time as a defect rather than a merit, as was the contempt for form. At that time, the noble status of His Royal Highness the Emperor and the imperial family was largely based on procedures and etiquette, and the court did not need truth and truth.

What was seen as a form by Sissi had great political significance in the royal family: "They placed the royal family at a height beyond the reach of all "ordinary people", making it inaccessible and elusive, and became a vivid symbol of God's grace, so that Princess Sissi was identified as a ceremonial icon of the Viennese court early on.

Later, all the conflicts and contradictions between Princess Sisi and the Vienna court were actually the confrontation between a person with sincere and delicate emotions and a court idol.

Well, no matter what, a fifteen-year-old girl, just like that, married into a wealthy family, but unfortunately she has a big gap with this wealthy family in terms of identity and value, and then she faces a very strong mother-in-law, and her lover is obedient to her mother-in-law, she is completely a little daughter-in-law who is destined to be angry, and at the same time this little daughter-in-law does not understand the "rules", whether it is from the relatives of the husband's family or those so-called court people, she only gets contempt and ridicule, Hell if you can be happy in such a married life.

The movie "Princess Sissi" shows part of it, but it does not say that Xiao Sissi has been in a fear of the future since she got engaged, and the life of the court and her life in the countryside are two worlds, and everything must be according to "rules" and "etiquette", so that Xiao Sissi was tortured by rules and etiquette more than once before she got married: "Franz Joseph, why is he not an ordinary tailor." ”

As for life after marriage, well! On the fourteenth day of her marriage, on May 8, 1854, she wrote: "Oh, I ought not have left that path, it will send me to freedom." Oh, on this vain avenue, may I never be confused! I woke up in a cage with the shackles already locking my hands. My desire is growing, you, and have turned away from me! Freely! I wake up from intoxication, my spirit has been twisted by it, and I curse this senseless exchange, it is it that makes me lose you, freedom! ”

Poor little girl, despise the handsome man from a wealthy family who eats tender grass, 25-year-old Franz Joseph.