History is studded with tragedies, but has there ever been a greater chronicle of personal disaster than the story of Ferdinand Maximilian, younger brother of Franz Josef of Austria and ill-fated Emperor of Mexico? Joan Haslip unravels this tragic historical mystery against the background of a Mexico up in arms, the American Civil War, and European court and financial intrigue.

The Crown of Mexico: Maximilian and His Empress Carlota

History

HASLIP,Joan

Americas

HOLT. RINEHART AND WINSTON

The beautiful Austrian Empress Elizabeth was a 'modern' woman who fled the confines of the Habsburg court to roam free.

Lonely Empress: Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

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A biography by Joan Haslip, "The Crown of Mexico: Maximilian &amp; his Empress Carlota". The story of how a German-born princess came to be one of Russia's greatest rulers. Hardcover. Original Jacket. Good/Good.

Catherine the Great

Weidenfeld and Nicolson

The emperor & the actress: The love story of Emperor Franz Josef & Katharina Schratt

Presents the story of the Austrian child-bride who, in the "safety" of a royal marriage, was swept up in the political furies of her time and paid with her life for the luxurious excesses associated with her court

Marie Antoinette

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TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

Madame Du Barry

531 PAGES WITH BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOS. DETAILS THE TRAGIC LIFE OF EMPEROR MAXIMILIAN, BROTH OF THE EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA, WHO TRIED TO SET UP A KINGDOM IN MEXICO

Imperial adventurer: Emperor Maximilian of Mexico

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Lady Hester Stanhope (Cassell Biographies)

Middlesex, Eng.

From the front flap of this 284 page book: "She was the darling of the Austrian stage, a blond 'bird of paradise' with 'laughing blue eyes and a little girl's face'. He was one of the nineteenth century's most influential rulers, the last great Hapsburg emperor, who, years later, would plunge the world into war. She rose from a broken marriage and financial ruin to become the pampered confidante of Europe's rich and powerful. He grew hopelessly obsessed with this guileless girl from the Vienna woods, and lavished his affection - and his wealth - on her. 'The Emperor and the Actress' is a factual account of the relationship between Emperor Franz Josef and Katharina Schratt, a leading lady described by one drama critics as 'the average man's ideal, bot seductress and housewife, earthy and sophisticated'. This is a riveting tale of forbidden love and political intrigue, of madness and murder, of a woman's conquest of her monarch - and of the terrible sacrifices both were forced to endure. In following Katharina's progress through the theatres, palaces, and watering spots of of Europe, author Joan Haslip provides an engrossing glimpse of daily life off and on stage and at court. She resurrects the forgotten theatrical costumes and luminaries of the era. And she describes - in rich detail - the world of princely opulence and sumptuous luxury enjoyed by a privileged few. [This book] is far more than just the story of Katharina Schratt - the toast of the fin-de-siecle society, the mistress 'enslaved in golden chains', a friend to Strauss, Mahler, and Brahms. It is a study of power - the power of beauty, of seduction, of tradition, of wealth, of art, of madness, and of change. And it is a haunting portrait of vanished European monarchy, the last gasp of the Hapsburgs, the excesses of absolute rule."

The Emperor and the Actress: The Love Story of Emperor Franz Josef and Katharina Schratt

Europe

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The Crown of Mexico: Maximilian and His Empress Carlota

Lonely Empress: Life of Elizabeth, Empress of Austria

Catherine the Great

The emperor & the actress: The love story of Emperor Franz Josef & Katharina Schratt

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Madame Du Barry

Imperial adventurer: Emperor Maximilian of Mexico

Lady Hester Stanhope (Cassell Biographies)

The Emperor and the Actress: The Love Story of Emperor Franz Josef and Katharina Schratt