Crown of Solitude by Lydia Ragosin

Saturday-Night Theatre: Crown of Solitude
Sat 8th Nov 1969, 20:30 on BBC Radio 4 FM
By Lydia Ragosin

'My task is to be reconciled with the purpose and burdens God gave me’. Elizabeth, Empress of Austria.

Produced by Charles Lefeaux

Elizabeth, Empress of Austria: Sheila Allen
Archduchess Sophie, the Emperor's mother...:
Margot Boyd
Franz Josef, Emperor of Austria: Peter Copley
Count Julius Andrassy: Hector Ross
Crown Prince Rudolf: John Pullen
Captain ' Bay ' Middleton: John Rye
Katerina Schratt: Margaret Wolfit
Luigi Luccheni: Leonard Fenton

Elisabeth was born into the royal Bavarian house of Wittelsbach. Nicknamed "Sisi", she enjoyed an informal upbringing before marrying Emperor Franz Joseph I at the age of sixteen. The marriage thrust her into the much more formal Habsburg court life, for which she was unprepared and which she found uncongenial. Early in the marriage she was at odds with her mother-in-law, Archduchess Sophie, who took over the rearing of Elisabeth's daughters, one of whom, Sophie, died in infancy.

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