During the next eighteen months, she did not try to hide her affections for the Count from her husband, who continued his own liaisons. Austria was under economic pressure from a hostile Germany, and Austrian banks were in a precarious position. We always forget about Helene: it's much easier to remember an Empress than a Princess of Thurn and Taxis. Fritz Mayr-Melnhof and Teresa Sayn-Wittgenstein at Glanneg during Christmas photo, 1956. She believed the Hungarian people deserved greater freedoms and respect, and collaborated with her close friend, the dashing Hungarian statesman Gyula Andrssy, to advance the Hungarian cause. Some sources incorrectly credit Zdenko Hudeek with being the most successful Austro-Hungarian submarine commander of the war. This tenderness was expressed especially in their correspondence because it was difficult to travel to Rusovce. After this disappointment, in the spring of 1883, the Crown Princess's pregnancy was confirmed, delighting the Emperor. Having grown up on the mountains, she had yet to acclimatise to the altitude difference which left her with debilitating migraines. The British government rejected Whitehead's invention, but Austrian Emperor Franz Josef invited him to open a torpedo factory in Fiume. To do this, she chose to collaborate with Egon Corti, a biographer recognized in particular for his work on the historical figures of the House of Habsburg. In 1935, Stphanie published her memoirs, entitled Je devais tre impratrice ("I Had to Be Empress"). During our toilet, the most absolute silence was required; any breach of this rule resulted in severe punishment. After the ceremony, a gala lunch was given with 60 people in attendance. [2], Marianne was born on 9 December 1919 in Salzburg, the eldest daughter of Baron Friedrich Mayr von Melnhof (18921956), owner of the Glanegg Castle near Salzburg, and his wife, Countess Maria-Anna von Meran (18971983), granddaughter of Franz, Count of Meran, head of a morganatic branch of the imperial Habsburg-Lorraine. Every ship I see sailing away fills me with the greatest desire to be on it.. [46], In Prague and Vienna, the couple received many visitors and gave many dinners. In her biography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, Maria describes her potential rival as the Princess Yvonne. In order to test us, the housekeeper often made unexpected entries. | Her new husband, for his part, had an annual income of 50,000 guilders. As daughter Maria said in a 2003 interview printed in. We exchanged alliances []. So instead, were just going to have a casual look at the history that surrounds one of the most famous musicals of all time. [47] At the beginning of 1886, the Crown Prince fell seriously ill. Several diagnoses included cystitis and stomach disease. She wished to go to her parents in Brussels, but neither Leopold II nor Franz Joseph I would allow Stephanie, who had become a Dowager Crown Princess, to abandon Austria. Katrina Casey| [8][Map 4] During this period, he delivered several lectures and conducted interviews on his naval career. [32] Father Wasner became the group's musical director. As Maria's original pupil recovered, she became governess to all seven Trapp children and encouraged them in sports, handiwork, and, of course, music. The territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided among seven countries, with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes keeping most of the seacoast. His father, Fregattenkapitn August Johann[7] Trapp, was a naval officer who had been elevated to the Austrian nobility as Ritter von Trapp when he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown Third Class. (Credit: DeAgostini/Getty Images). The villa theyd left behind was confiscated in their absence by the Nazi party and given to Heinrich Himmler to act as headquarters for the SS. Under pressure from his parents to marry as soon as possible, the Crown Prince was satisfied with Stphanie and on 5 March, he asked her parents for her hand. [55] However, these adaptations often altered the portrayal of the Captain. The most obvious difference was the change of eldest children. Lives in Aba, Abia. In March 1919, the whole imperial family had to leave Austria. Trapp sought to help a friend in the banking business, Auguste Caroline Lammer (18851937), so he withdrew most of his money from London and deposited it in an Austrian bank. [28] The family decided to leave Austria. Hanging on the ropes, she made a fantastic impression, like a creature somewhere between snake and bird. In the musical, the character of Baroness Schraeder acts as Marias rival for Captain von Trapps affections. She traveled a lot and devoted herself to painting. Stphanie has been represented by several painters: Princess Stphanie of Belgium, by Hans Makart (1880). Your email address will not be published. She started a career as a professional photographer and archived about 300,000 of her photos until her 100th birthday in December 2019. FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. Later generations are included although Austrian titles of nobility were abolished and outlawed in 1919. Everything wrong with The Greatest Showman (Historically at least), Everything Wrong with The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: A Faithful Love. [1] In January 1947, Major General Harry J. Collins turned to the Trapp family in the US pleading for help for the Austrian people, having seen first-hand the suffering of the residents of Salzburg when he had arrived there with the 42nd Infantry Division after World War II. 20, 1666, paris), queen consort of king louis xiii of france (reigned. The family received permission to set up a chapel within the villa which in turn encouraged their choral singing. [8] Trapp then acquired Villa Trapp in Aigen, a suburb of Salzburg, and moved his family there in 1924. Among their closest acquaintances figured, from 1944, their chaplain, Geza Karsai, Germanist, university professor and monk of the Pannonhalma Archabbey. [27], The Crown Prince was 21 years old at the time of the engagement. Of course Maria quickly became excited to become wife and mother to such a wonderful family, and was really only sad at first because she thoughtthe Lordhad rejected her offer of a life of service to Him. After all, whats there to like about her? 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Your mother and I are all in favor of this marriage. The family lived off the charity of friends and well-wishers while making their own money from their musical tours. HISTORY reviews and updates its content regularly to ensure it is complete and accurate. The following 183 pages are in this category, out of 183 total. [60], At the court of Vienna, Stphanie had to endure the coldness of Empress Elisabeth, who avoided her, and the equally distant attitude adopted by Emperor Franz Joseph I. After consulting with the Revenend Mother at Nonnberg Abbey, Maria returned to the von Trapp Villa where she informed the Captain, Th-they said I have to m-marry you-ou!, and buried her face in his shoulder with a sob. Princesses of Austria, including female members of the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg and its successor the House of Habsburg-Lorraine who usually held the higher title of Archduchess . I want always to be on the move, she wrote, according to Hamann. The Belgian state offered a financial transaction to the three princesses, who would each receive a sum of two million francs. When the Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them on the radio, he invited them to perform in Vienna. The consequences of this lie were dramatic: when the couple tried to conceive another child, Stphanie, who was not yet 22 years old, found it that she was sterile. [23], During the winter of 18791880, Empress Elisabeth returned to Brussels. After studying law in Budapest, he had entered diplomatic service. However, the health of the Count, who was not yet 40, was so bad that he lost the ability to speak after surgery due to laryngeal cancer. With her ambivalence to public duties and reluctance to marry, the young bride recalled another royal born at the Hofburg almost exactly 100 years before, Marie Antoinette. The oldest von Trapp daughter, Agathe, laterpenned that the Princess was not only a Vienesse countess, but actually a cousin of Georgs first wife! She was not allowed to leave the palace and remained subject to strict surveillance, so she took the opportunity to devote herself to drawing or painting. Princess Stphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte of Belgium (21 May 1864 23 August 1945) was a Belgian princess who became Crown Princess of Austria through marriage to Crown Prince Rudolf, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Between April 1917 and October 1917, U-14 sank 11 Allied merchant ships under Trapp's command. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Reality: The Real Story of the von Trapp Family", "Maria von Trapp, whose life was 'Sound of Music', is Dead", "So long, farewell: Von Trapp daughter dies, aged 97", "Obituary: Kindergarten teacher Agathe von Trapp was the real Liesl of The Sound of Music", "Maria Trapp: Letztes Mitglied der singenden Familie tot", "Maria von Trapp, last member of Sound of Music family, dies", "Maria von Trapp: last member of family group that inspired Sound of Music dies. [68] The new spouses initially settled at the Palais Zichy in Vienna. His condition deteriorated rapidly: the doctor diagnosed acute pericarditis. The apparent suicide of the Crown Prince deeply affected Stphanie and constituted, in the words of Irmgard Schiel, "the greatest catastrophe that can affect a woman in her married life". The inclusion of the Captains whistle was also a point of consternation for the family. Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him. Leopold nourished the hope of having a second son and therefore resumed sexual relations with the Queen; but, after a miscarriage in March 1871,[8] another daughter was born on 30 July 1872: Clmentine, the last child of the royal couple. This ladywas an Austrian noblewoman who had an abundance of wealth, and (apparently) a fondness for Captain von Trapp. Declared an adult at the age of 19, he already had his own household. [50] From that moment, feeling betrayed by her own husband, Stphanie harbored resentment and bitterness towards Rudolf. [8], In 1894, aged fourteen, Trapp followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy, entering the naval academy at Fiume (now Rijeka). The patronages exerted by Stphanie were withdrawn from her,[67] and she thus received an annual pension of 100,000 guilders. However, on 22 January 1914, an agreement was concluded between Louise, the Belgian State and some of her creditors: She received, like her two sisters, a little more than five million francs from their late father's fortune. [28] In anticipation of her establishment at the Austrian court, her mother Marie Henriette had warned Stphanie: "Avoid Louise, and if you see her, reason with her, show her a good example [] Louise is not true. Shortly thereafter the Captainset offto visit the Princess with plans for a definite wedding date. [92] Her 1908 decision to take out a US patent on a chafing dish surprised the New York Times, not because of her lineage but because "throughout Europe the proficiency of Columbias daughters with the chafing dish is traditional". I hope to see you there! I was the Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary!". Weeks 1 & 2 of the 1950s Sisters Dress Sew-Along. You cannot imagine how charming Sisi is when she cries, Archduchess Sophie wrote, as recounted by Viennese historian Brigitte Hamann in The Reluctant Empress. Affectionately known as Princess "Manni" or her more artistic moniker "Mamarazza," she was an accomplished photographer, her images becoming featured in magazines as well as gallery exhibitions. Horseback riding, fencing, fast-paced hikes and exercises adapted from the circusunusual for the timeconsumed her days. On the other hand, in the autumn, Edmund Veesenmayer, SS Brigadefhrer, and commander of the city of Budapest, took up quarters in Rusovce accompanied by a large staff. The marriage was finally celebrated on 10 May 1881, a few days before Stphanie's 17th birthday,[33] at the Saint Augustine's Church in Vienna. At their table, adorned with flowers, were sweets that the princesses were not allowed to taste. They returned to Austria on two occasions while they were on tour in Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War forced them back to America. So the day he had planned on proposing to Yvonne, he instead broke off their relationship with intentions of marrying Maria. Stphanie's last letter to her daughter dated from 1924, the year in which Erzsi had just obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro from her husband. 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast RegionBoston. The hope was that after a year of living halfway between the altitude of her childhood and that of the convent, she would be able to return and take her vows without any medical issues. It was initially thought Vetsera poisoned Rudolf before killing herself, though it was later determined that Rudolf shot both of them in a murder-suicide pact, a conclusion that only deepened Sisis sadness. Works at Westlands, Nairobi. Yvonne at an event hosted by the AAOE. First, they were invited to sing at the Salzburg Festival where they won first prize. [12] Stphanie benefitted schooling by teachers who provided her with various courses: French, English, German, Dutch and Hungarian for languages, while mathematics lessons, horsemanship, history, history of art, religion, botany, and rhetoric were also taught. Her early upbringing from an apartheid era household where . Only her sister Louise was informed of the affair. The following year, Elisabeth Marie participated in her mother's silver wedding anniversary. If she could have only seen then all the service she would offer in her life, Im sure she would have been thrilled! However, she was not Rudolf's first choice as a potential bride: having refused Princess Mathilde of Saxony, as well as several Infantas of Portugal and Spain,[24] he found that Stphanie was one of the few Catholic princesses who met the criteria imposed by his father Emperor Franz Joseph I to become wife of the heir of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Marie Valerie, the one child on whom Sisi doted, wrote of finding her mother laughing hysterically in a bathtub. The princess was saved only by the care of an unknown Ardennes doctor, whom the royal couple had consulted, who recommended cold baths. She resides in Oregon where she sews, designs costumes, and spends time with her family. By the time Maria arrived on the scene, both von Trapp and Princess Yvonne were planning towards an imminent marriage, though they were not yet officially engaged. Princess Manni was born in Salzburg in 1919, the daughter of Friedrich Baron Mayr-Melnhof and his wife Maria Anna Countess von Meran. The result apparently only forced the Captain to confront his feelings which came to a head while he was visiting Princess Yvonne. [35] As a part of the wedding celebrations, the Emperor bestowed Walthere Frere-Orban with the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary and the Empress bestowed several ladies with the Order of the Starry Cross. . [57], After Rudolf's death, Stphanie had only one thought: to leave Vienna and the heavy atmosphere of the court. Thus, they downsized their living by moving the family onto one floor of the villa, dismissed the staff that they felt they could live without, and began renting out rooms of the villa to guests. [79] Finally, the remains of Franz Joseph I were placed next to his wife and son in the Imperial Crypt in the center of Vienna. [22], Stphanie had heard of Rudolf for the first time at the end of a literature class given by her housekeeper Fanny Brossel. The photo was taken while the siblings were aboard a private yacht off the coast of Mallorca. It costs nothing to lie or act. However, in May, Stphanie (suffering from heart disease) and her husband left their residence to take refuge in the Pannonhalma Archabbey, protected by the International Committee of the Red Cross. (Over three decadesbeginning in 1880, anarchists killed a Russian czar,two Spanish premiers, a French president, and an Italian king.). Allegory on the betrothal of Crown Prince Rudolf and Stphanie of Belgium, by Sophia and Maria Grlich (1881). 371k members in the AccidentalWesAnderson community. [8], In 1900, he was assigned to the protected cruiser SMSZenta and was decorated for his performance during the Boxer Rebellion, in which he participated in the assault on the Taku Forts. Sissi: Directed by Ernst Marischka. In real life and in the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, written by his second wife Maria Augusta Trapp, the Captain has been described as being a warm and loving father who was always around. [80], Until World War II, Prince and Princess Lnyay peacefully spent their lives at Rusovce. [54], Rudolf pursued other connections, in particular with the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera from around April 1888. In August, Leopold, suffering from dropsy, was brought back to Laeken. The von Trapps traveled to Italy, not Switzerland. After this announcement, the Crown Prince once again became considerate and attentive to his wife. Her watercolors painted in Lacroma were published as an album in 1892. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Frstliche Huser XIX. Princess Ariana Maria-Gobertina of Sayn-Wittgenstein Berleburg (b.23 August 1985) [daughter of late Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein Berleburg (1952-2010) & his first wife, Countess Louise Batthyany de Nemet-Ujvar (b.1956)] married Zachary Wendkos this year. Until World War II, Count and Countess Lnyay (elevated to the princely rank in 1917) peacefully spent their lives at Rusovce Mansion in Slovakia. Subsequently composed (musical/film only, not by original group): On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. In fact, he didnt speak to her at all for several evenings when the children had asked her, do you like father? (to which she replied yes) which had somehow become misconstrued to Please tell your father I accept his proposal of marriage.. [81] According to her granddaughter-in-law, author Ghislaine of Windisch-Graetz (ne d'Arschot Schoonhoven), Stphanie "was confused in devotion and even bigoted; she was convinced that her daughter was possessed by the demon and she could not tolerate the immorality of her love life. [6] For many weeks, the girl was unconscious, feverish and in great pain. Queer Kings & Queens: Was James I & VI gay? Normally, thatd fall into the Everything wrong with series but I have neither the inclination or the audacity to suggest that something is wrong with The Sound of Music (1965) despite its many and frequent deviations from the story of the actual Trapp family. But in her glass coach on the way to her new home in the sprawling Hofburg imperial palace, Sisi sobbedoverwhelmed and afraid. The Mayr von Melnhof family were Catholic Styrians since the 15th century and, having become industrialists, were ennobled with the title of Baron in Austria in 1859.[3]. [53], In October 1888, Stphanie, worried about the depressive even suicidal tendencies of her husband, went to the Emperor Franz Joseph I to alert him, without succeeding in convincing him. The two princesses refused a new amicable agreement with the State, before their action was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in April 1913. However, he came to terms with his discomfort very early and joined the family on stage as part of the group. [29] Rudolf's personality was ambiguous: Often subject to mood swings, he suddenly passed from a melancholy state to an expansive joy, and he was aware of the duality of his temperament. By the time the Third Reich annexed Austria, Maria had been with the Trapp family for ten years. Stphanie did not dare talk about her marital problems with her mother. As of 2021, Stphanie had 8 great-grandchildren, 24 great-great-grandchildren and 32 great-great-great-grandchildren. His older sister was the Austrian artist Hede von Trapp, and his brother Werner died in 1915 during World War I. And, thats where the similarities to The Sound of Music end. And so, Sisi wandered. Stphanie made her first communion on 12 June 1876 and officially appeared for the first time at court. C.A. Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images The film is one of the most popular, successful, and enduring musicals of all time, and its probably because its success far outstripped the fame of the actual Trapp family that people think theyre fictional at all. The fever decreased and in October, Stphanie was considered to have recovered. [34] Stphanie remembered, "Both of us pronounced the sacramental 'yes'. Both his sons inherited this hereditary title of Ritter (Knight). In order to be able to marry Stphanie, he converted to Catholicism. Actually, the movie is based not only on the books, but on the first German movie of 1956, which is its real blueprint. Upon her return, the Captain realizes he cannot be without her, breaks it off with the Baroness, and proposes to Maria. On this occasion, the Habsburg monarchy unfolded its full splendor for the last time. 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