Vienna Hofburg - Imperial Apartments, Sisi Museum, Silver Collection

“Destinations are only desirable because a journey lies in between. If I arrived somewhere and knew that I would never leave again, even a sojourn in a paradise would turn into hell for me”, wrote Elisabeth. Her restlessness increases, and family and confidantes grow ever more worried about the melancholic empress. In 1897 her daughter Marie Valerie writes in her diary: “Unfortunately Mama wants to be alone more than ever ... and only talks of sad things”. And an entry in May 1898 reads: “... the deep sadness that used to descend on Mama only for periods at a Englisch time now never leaves her. Today Mama said again that she often longs for death ...”www.hofburg-wien.at | Download Tour-Guide (PDF)© by Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.