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Hello, we're back with part two of our coverage of Embrace Sissy of Austria.

We do want to give you a little content warning, heads up.

There is some discussion about suicide and there is the death of a child in this episode,

so if you have little ears around, you might want to preview it before letting them

listen.

So let's just recap where we are.

A 15 year old Bavarian princess with an outdoorsy laid back life got switched with her sister

for a betrothal to the 23 year old emperor of Austria.

Goodbye country life.

Hello strict Viennese court.

Now Empracing wasn't all dreamy fairy tale stuff.

It's being on all the time.

It's being watched.

It's being controlled by your very politically motivated and disapproving mother-in-law on

Sophie.

But Sissy had given birth to two daughters in the first couple of years, but she was miserable

in Vienna.

Upon returning from a successful diplomatic mission to Italy, Sissy was greeted with a reminder

that the job one of an Empress was to produce a male heir and if she didn't, she was expendable.

Okay, so that notes carefully pulled from the archives where it was once used against

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