Im Schloß Possenhofen herrscht große Aufregung. Kaiser Franz Joseph hat um die Hand von Helene angehalten und nun sollte die Familie dem jungen, schmucken Kaiser im romantischen Kurort Bad Ischl begegnen. Und so beginnt ein Verwirrspiel zwischen junger Liebe und imperialer Heiratspolitik, das für alle Beteiligten ein völlig unerwartetes Ende findet.
Pomiješana su mi osjećanja u vezi ove knjige. Prva pomisao mi je da djevojke koje nisu učene pravilima dvora, ne bi trebale stupati u brak sa vladarima. A opet, sklona sam mišljenju da se, uz dobru volju i malo pameti, sve može naučiti.
Druga pomisao mi je da je nadvojvotkinji trebalo dati mišomora. I nakon 170 godina, žena opasno nervira.
Kroz knjigu se vidi odrastanje i napredak carice Sisi, ali nikada to nije potpuna sreća i zadovoljstvo već samo san o slobodi. A tu privilegiju, iako s jedne strane gladni, siromašni uvijek imaju.
The book starts with quite a bit of an introduction, which is a little annoying, because we all know she’s going to marry the Emperor (it says so right on the front of the book). It does however give us quite some background information about Sissy and her family, which are nice things to know later on in the story.
Even though I know this all happened quite a while ago, it was still a bit of a shock to me to find out that the Emperor and Sissy are cousins (it’s clear from the beginning, so not really a spoiler), who need special permission to get married. On top of that, there’s an age difference of 8 years, which at those ages (16 and 24) is quite a difference! I know back in those things that wasn’t an issue as much, but I still found it a little disturbing to say the least.
In this princess story, there is no evil step-mom. Instead, there is an evil mother-in-law, who Sissy (unfortunately) has to live with. This of course, also causes a lot of the conflicts in the book.
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