The second day in Vienna, we went to the Royal Apartments and the Sisi Museum. Sisi was the Empress Elizabeth—a gorgeously beautiful girl who married the Crown Prince of the Austro Hungarian empire at aged 15 just at the end of the 19th century—and how she was oppressed by this, was obviously bulimic, then depressed, was fixated on keeping her beauty, had her children alienated from her, travelled incessantly and restlessly, and finally was assassinated—so many of the same issues as Diana. When she died she was idolised and many films have been made about her glamour and beauty, but it was life submerged in tragedy. We thought Vienna would be full of music, especially Strauss, but there has been nothing really, and we managed to unearth the Strauss museum. It was hard to find, was
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