Empress Sisi, Mega-revisit

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

The History Chicks | QCODE

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.6 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2022

⏱️ 194 minutes

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Summary

We've combined our previous coverage of Empress Sisi of Austria because she's getting a lot of screen time these days and we found ourselves in need of a refresher, so we thought you might be, too. Both the Netflix series, The Empress, and a theatrical release, Corsage, cover different time periods in the life of this young noblewoman who was plucked from obscurity and shoved onto the world stage. She found the limelight a difficult place in which to live, but her beauty and her genuine concern for the common people earned her the status of a reluctant icon. Sisi's ultimate death shocked the whole world.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely
0:06.3	coincidental.
0:08.3	Hi, it's Susan.
0:10.4	Beckett and I are both watching The Empress on Netflix about Empress Sissy of Austria.
0:16.8	The Netflix synopsis calls it swoonworthy, emotional, romantic, and I agree with all of those,
0:23.8	but is it accurate?
0:25.9	We both found ourselves pausing the series to look up facts that we may have been a little
0:31.8	fuzzy on.
0:32.8	So, we thought if we're doing it, other people must be too.
0:36.7	There's also another theatrical release about Empress Sissy called Corsage.
0:41.0	I believe it's out in some countries in Europe already.
0:44.3	It's coming to the United States in December and it has a very spicy movie poster.
0:51.6	You can just go look it up.
0:52.8	I'm not going to put it in the show notes because it's kind of rude.
0:55.9	But, it's also very intriguing.
0:59.4	So we decided to take our two-part episode on Empress Sissy of Austria and combine them
1:05.0	into one mega episode.
1:08.0	Yeah, that should have an echo, but I don't know how to do that.
1:13.5	So that's what we're going to present for you this week.
1:16.1	We do want to give you a little content warning, heads up.
1:19.1	There is some discussion about suicide and there is the death of a child in this episode.
1:23.8	So if you have little ears around, you might want to preview it before letting them listen.
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