[3] In 1902, he passed the final officer's examination, and was commissioned a Fregattenleutnant (frigate lieutenant, equivalent to sub-lieutenant) in May 1903. [92], At her birth, as the daughter of King Leopold II, Stphanie was titled Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Duchess in Saxony, with the predicate of Royal Highness, according to the titles of her house, and bears the unofficial title of Princess of Belgium, which will be officially regularized by Royal Decree dated 14 March 1891.[93]. Among other things, Trapp bought seven bottles of water from the Jordan River which were later used to baptize his first seven children. Stphanie received a negative response from Leopold II: "My father answered me in the severest and harshest terms that he refused me his consent. This list may not reflect recent changes. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Truly like an angel of mercy she went from bed to bed, lady-in-waiting Marie Festetics wrote of one such visit, as recorded in The Reluctant Empress. Renovation was required for the residence, which comprised 200 rooms. This gave rise to fears for her life before she suddenly recovered. (Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images). When the King entered the dining room, the princesses would rise and bow before kissing his hand which he then put on their head, without a word. Sisi, on the other hand, was so nervous during the courtship that she was unable to eat. [29], In 1935, Trapp's money, inherited from his English first wife, was invested in a bank in England. If youd like to see a video of the dress which was posted by A Needle Pulling Thread, click here. He also refused a request for the family to perform at an event for Hitler's birthday. 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. Contrary to general thought, the von Trapp children knew much of music, and the Captain is reported to have said that his children often did nothing but sing all day long. [82] Corti being excluded from the literary project, Stphanie addressed Count and Countess Gatterburg, who submitted the manuscript first to a publisher in Leipzig in 1933. She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881, Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Her early upbringing from an apartheid era household where . Stphanie, Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary, by Heinrich von Angeli (1882). 2012-2023 Edelweiss Patterns All Rights Reserved. In May 1918, he was promoted to Korvettenkapitn (equal to Lieutenant commander) and given command of the submarine base at Cattaro in the Gulf of Kotor. Queen Victoria's letter had missed its mark. Sisis husband, Franz Joseph, was hardworking and loved her, but had little imagination or humor. As she said in her autobiography. Rudolf is doing very well. [26] They were married on 26 November 1927 when he was 47 and she was 22. In this 1955 photograph, thirteen-year-old Princess Yvonne of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn in Germany is shown tipping back a bottle of Dry Sack sherry as her twelve-year-old brother Prince Alexander sits calmly by, his cigarette nearly finished. [68] The new spouses initially settled at the Palais Zichy in Vienna. [52], From the spring of 1887, painful scenes were repeated between the spouses. His eldest son, Rupert, was invited to take up a position among the doctors of the Third Reich which was also refused. [23], During the winter of 18791880, Empress Elisabeth returned to Brussels. During the next eighteen months, she did not try to hide her affections for the Count from her husband, who continued his own liaisons. (Credit: Imagno/Getty Images), Sisi, however, dismissed all this attention. He and Maria fall in love much to the Baroness chagrin and she engineers for Maria to return to the convent in secret. The reaction of Rudolf's parents was mixed while Empress Elisabeth was deeply disappointed with the match as the Belgian monarchy dated only from 1830 and did not compare to the Habsburgs in terms of seniority, even though its royal house was a branch of the House of Wettin (one of the oldest ruling houses in Europe), Emperor Franz Joseph I was pleased. It was historically accurate at least, the Villa Trapp was extensive and with so many children, the Captain had decided it was easier to summon them by use of a musical whistle than from calling them. Look familiar? The photo was taken while the siblings were aboard a private yacht off the coast of Mallorca. Although she retained her title of Crown Princess, she did not retain its functions and was no longer authorized to represent the Empress. [1], Born at the Palace of Laeken on 21 May 1864, Stphanie received an emergency baptism on the day of her birth. 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 territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided among seven countries, with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes keeping most of the seacoast. [89], On 2 April 1945, it was the Red Army, having just launched a last offensive pushing back the Germans near Lake Balaton, which reached the Rusovce mansion. On April 25, 1854, a shy and melancholy bride married into a major European royal house. The preparations for a princely birth obeyed protocol: prayers in churches and the exhibition of the Blessed Sacrament in the churches of the imperial palaces. Queen Marie Henriette isolated herself in Spa to rest, while King Leopold II, held back by affairs of state, and his two daughters remained in Laeken. In reality the Captain, our father, was gentle, kind, and sensitive.. She further alienated the Viennese aristocracy by filling her personal staff with Hungarian nationals. Horseback riding, fencing, fast-paced hikes and exercises adapted from the circusunusual for the timeconsumed her days. During the summer of 1888, Stphanie noticed a disturbing change in the general condition of the Crown Prince: his increasingly angry character led him to continued public outbursts of extreme violence. Captain von Trapp himself played several instruments and hired various music teachers for his children, many of whom lived at the villa at different points. Stphanie and her daughter were placed in the third row. Immediately, she left for Spa to pay a last tribute to her mother. For instance, in the 1965 film, Georg von Trapp was portrayed as a disciplinary man who always went away and did not care for his children or their feelings at the beginning of the film. Something Good Maria, Captain von Trapp, and the Baroness. Princess Maria Petrovna Galitzine suddenly died a few days before turning 32, it has been confirmed. The legendary story of this musical family's escape from Nazi Austria is one of the best-loved tales in recent history. [54], Rudolf pursued other connections, in particular with the 17-year-old Baroness Marie Vetsera from around April 1888. The children did not sing the German anthem when required of them, the older children who were now adults refrained from the Nazi salute, and they had reservations about living under Nazi policies which conflicted with their religion. [3] He graduated four years later and completed two years of follow-on training voyages, including one to Australia, as a cadet aboard the sail training corvette SMS Saida II. Having grown up on the mountains, she had yet to acclimatise to the altitude difference which left her with debilitating migraines. Additionally, Maria was hired to tutor just one of the Trapp daughters who, having suffered a bout of scarlet fever, was too weak to make the forty five minute walk to school and so she had little to do with the other children who were themselves altered as characters for the musical. In order to toughen us up, the windows of our bedroom, summer and winter, remained open: we rarely heated". However, he came to terms with his discomfort very early and joined the family on stage as part of the group. The former Crown Princess's household was dissolved: all those who were part of it were dismissed, but some of them were assigned to her daughter's service. [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. An avid seamstress, she has studied historical costume in England and has had her work featured by PBS host Martha Pullen. ==== Image i And from one moment to the next, you didn't know what hit her. Only her sister Louise was informed of the affair. Baroness Schraeder would be proud to wear this - she once noted, "I do have the finest couturier' in all Vienna!". Princess Stphanie was the second daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and Marie Henriette of Austria. [87], As long as they maintained satisfactory health, Stphanie and Elemr traveled and met various exiled rulers: the deposed Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and the Empress Zita. She has studied the Trapp family's history for years and has heard Rosmarie von Trapp in concert describe what is was like to flee from Austria and settle in the United States. [41] However, Stphanie related that Rudolf was suspicious when she accompanied him. ". While Captain von Trapp leaves to visit his love interest, Baroness Schraeder, the high spirited Maria introduces the children to fun, games, and above all, music. The family had a contract with an American booking agent when they left Austria. In March 1890, Potocki died and Stphanie once again went into a deep grieving. In 1935, Stphanie published her memoirs, entitled Je devais tre impratrice ("I Had to Be Empress"). Before long the Princess returned to her castle, and things went on as before, except that Marias interactions with the Captain were very strained. The names of the Trapp children were changed for the musical, along with their ages. Given this background, one can only hope that the shot above is the result of intentional composition and not reckless parenting. While Stphanie and Clmentine accepted the proposal, Louise refused it and initiated, in December 1910, a first trial against the Belgian State and her two sisters. In 1944, she disinherited her daughter, who had divorced to live with a socialist deputy and whom she had not seen since 1925. During an official visit to Hungary in May 1881,[39] she was given a standing ovation and began to see the advantages of her situation. When the gender of the child was announced to Rudolf, he did not hide his disappointment at not having been given an heir to Austria-Hungary Empire, but he got used to his role of father and gave, in his correspondence, many details about the newborn girl. I loved, I lived/I wandered through the world, she wrote, but never reached what I strove for.. Stphanie and Elemr were forced to take refuge in a few rooms because the occupants had appropriated most of the castle. Artur Potocki remained close to Stphanie during the dark days following Rudolf's death. She remembers: "The Emperor greeted me cordially. Here she displayed surprisingly down-to-earth behavior for a royal: holding hands with the dying, and speaking to patients about their needs. This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 10:53. In March 1880 Rudolf was invited to the Belgian court at the insistence of Leopold II. She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881, Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Web princess yvonne was cool, almost to the point of coldness. Crown Princess Stphanie, consort to Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, by Hans Canon (c. 1884). [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. During this time, they went back to Salzburg for a few months before returning to Sweden to finish the tour. Neither her daughter nor any of her descendants were present at her funeral. Ive included the option for straps, for authenticity, as well as cap sleeves which can quickly convert this gown into a modest formal wear dress! One of their guests, Father Wasner, was experienced in musical direction and began teaching the family formal singing techniques and arrangements. The revelation of the Captains affections didnt quite invoke the romantic scenes of the musical where Maria flees to the abbey and is told to confront her problems (through song obviously). Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia). In 1886, he was appointed counselor of the legation. The two were married in November 1927 and their first child, a daughter called Rosmarie was born in 1929. From her hands-on mother, Princess Ludovika, she developed a love of privacy and a fear of public dutiestraits that would not serve her well as empress. The preparations for the wedding filled King Leopold II with pride. 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. See Photos. Works at Westlands, Nairobi. His son, Stphanie's father, ascended to the throne under the name of Leopold II, and her brother assumed the title of Duke of Brabant as the new heir of the throne. Knowing that refusal will put the entire family in danger, they resolve to escape to Switzerland and the safety of neutrality. 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