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Kate Connolly in Berlin

Sisi-mania: first royal celebrity celebrated in cinemas and on Netflix

Vicky Krieps as Elisabeth of Austria
Corsage, starring Vicky Krieps as Elisabeth, Empress of Austria. Photograph: MK2 Films © Felix Vratny

She has been described as a Habsburg popstar, the first royal celebrity, the earliest example of a woman body-shamed by the media and a long undiscovered 19th century feminist icon.

Elisabeth, Empress of Austria, is now being brought to life again for the modern age with two new cinema films, two television series, including a Netflix biopic, as well as a novel.

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