Elizabeth, the Dutchess of Bayern, is a young lady living in a big house with her mother and her two sisters. She loves to ride horse and is a very energic girl. Her horse was sacrificed by her mother's husband who affirms that the horse will not recover of a broken leg (while she was riding the horse got injured).
Her mother gives more preference to her daughter Helene, so she is preparing her to get married, and they go in a visit in the Emperor's county. His brother Maximilian arrives in the same moment of the visit because he knows that they are preparing his marriage.
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The Queen welcoming her son Maximilian and a Baronesse of somewhere in Italy. She receives her with a large smile. |
The Baroness of somewhere says: "They will all die in Venice".
Franz Joseph has Maximilian and the little one Ludwig-Victor as brothers, this little one is very educated boy and very smart. He will be a great man one day. He is in my opinion the legitim king by heart.
In the Acquaintance it happens to Franz to approach Elizabeth and he decides to marry her instead Helene, everyone gets surprised, but this was his decision. Helene don't accept well the treason.
Elizabeth accepts immediately the proposal without thinking in her sister. In the beginning of the movie, she declares her wish to marry a true soul mate. She is young, passionate and free.
She marries in a period of turbulence in the Kingdom, people are in a Revolt fighting for better life conditions, they are starving, so they are in an occult rebellion, killing the citizens with better possesses. The King hangs some of them in the beginning.
The life of Elizabeth in the court is not easy, she has 10 ladies-in-waiting to make her company, included one is a descendant of Baba Iaga, and they are all very invasive, she didn't have any privacy out of her room. She feels the pressure of being under their rules, because she wants to be free to take decisions.
Franz is a very focused King, he is trying to avoid his men to go to war, but is inevitable, his counselling voted to war against the rebels. He also wins a loan to build a railroad.
His brother wants to take his place because he believes to be better than Franz. Franz sees his brother interest in Elizabeth so he guarantees that he will be out of his path. Meanwhile his brother is organizing an attack behind his back. Later he confesses to Franz telling him to abdicate his throne and tries to convince Elizabeth to betray Franz and marry him.
The presence of a vessel gipsy Rebel disguised as Lady-in-waiting, Apafi puts in danger not only Elizabeth and the entire court, as organizing with a rebel an attack to kill them all, but living in the court she starts to see that they are good people and doubts because she is emotionally involved, but after a party where Elizabeth constantly gets drunk without her husband, Apafi has an self-intimate confirmation and tells her Conrade that for the Revolution she prefers all of them to die. Meantime, one of the countesses discovers Apafi's plan and prepares the proofs to take her out of the court, but Apafi discovers and kill her before.
Franz and his mother are not satisfied with Elizabeth's behaviour and decide to send her away to her house to separate, in the same day Elizabeth discovers that she is pregnant and tries to tell Franz but is late, he sends her out and she didn't tell him about the pregnancy, Apafi knows because she told her. She starts to get close to Apafi's and believe her to be a good person. Actually, Apafi is a partaker of murder of a lady, she took the clothes and possessions, her partner of the Revolution killed the woman.
When Elizabeth is leaving the castle in the carriage, a lot of citizens are in the Gate protesting, Elizabeth commands to open the gate and then kneel before them. They accept Elizabeth like a suitable Queen because she was there in their living place to know their condition. They saw it with good eyes.
The series finishes with Franz going in her encounter in the gate.
The series has only 6 episodes, the history is only in the beginning. I will wait for more episodes and then to make an update here.
Worth to see, you will learn some important lessons. We see the transition of the young and naive Elizabeth to a Queen.
