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Bridgerton, unite – there’s a new royal drama coming to Netflix and it’s one you absolutely won’t want to miss.
The Empress is set to become your new favourite series, depicting the life of Elisabeth of Austria who was the longest reigning Empress in the country’s history, from 1854 to 1898. When she married Emperor Franz Joseph I, she was thrust into the spotlight and faced many difficulties, from her strained relationship with her mother-in-law, the Archduchess Sophie, to the tragic loss of one of her children.
Tragic Empress getting The Crown treatment: Story of Sissi of Austria who lost her first child in infancy, her second in a murder-suicide and her sister in a fire before being murdered is to be brought to life in a new Netflix drama
New Neflix show The Empress to follow in footsteps of The Crown as royal drama
Six part series will document the life of Sissi, born Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria
Royal married Emperor of Austria-Hungary when she was just sixteen-years-old
Domineering mother-in-law Princess Sophie made Sissi s life incredibly difficult
Meanwhile brother-in-law becomes enamoured with both Sissi and the throne