Season 2 ends on a cliffhanger as to whether Franz Joseph is safe or not. However, history has proven that although Austria lost the war, the Emperor returned home as a whole. Not only did Franz ...

In real life, Elisabeth married her first cousin Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, in a union that wasn't initially meant to happen. Instead, their mothers planned for Franz to marry Elisabeth's ...

Video by Celine Jankowiak A long-lost carriage once used almost daily by Austria's longest-serving monarch Franz Joseph for his commute from the Schoenbrunn palace to his office in central Vienna ...

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732–1809) was an Austrian composer ... The composer's reputation spread rapidly throughout Austria, and commissions began arriving from abroad. 1790 saw the death of Prince ...