Elisabeth: The Princess Bride

by Barry Denenberg

Book Overview

Author Barry Denenberg introduces us to a nineteenth-century Bavarian princess named Elisabeth who at age fifteen is engaged to the emperor of Austria and is swept into an unfamiliar world. Author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0439266440
• ISBN13: 9780439266444
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.7"
• Age Range: 9 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 9

Customer Reviews

Elizabeth

This is a very good book. It makes you think twice about wanting to be an Empress, Queen, Princess.....

Elisabeth's story!!!

I loved the front cover of this Royal Diary and it was just as good as it looks!!Well done Barry, on a wonderful addition to thie series!This is the story about the beautiful princess, Elisabeth. Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, is a lovely princess who was the chosen bride of the honourable Emperor of Austria.The original bride was her beautiful but steady-minded sister, who wanted to be the Empress, and was crushed when her younger sister was chosen. Elisabeth, is devastated about all the rules in the Austrian Palace, it has no bathroom, but chamber pots, and no proper sitting room.Elisabeth will be drawn out of her care-free life into the strict and disciplinary one in the Austrian Palace. Well done Barry!!An exceptional addition to this famous series!I sure loved this beautiful life that spiritual Elisabeth lead!!I found her life story amazing and her death story- tragic.Another great book from the Royal Diary Series!

A Princess who then had an Unhappy Life

Elisabeth Amelie Eugenie is Princess of Bavaria, daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph and his wife Princess Ludovica. Elisabeth, nicknamed "Sisi" is fifteen years old, and loves her life now. She loves her home Possenhofen, riding, and the outdoors with her father. Yet now she is to accompany her mother and sister Helene, nicknamed "Nene" to meet Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Helene's mother is hoping to have Helene and Franz Joseph married, and Elisabeth is coming to meet his younger brother. Yet when arriving, the Emperor is smitten by the beauty of Elisabeth and he chooses her to be his bride. Now she has a mix of feelings, of happiness, woe, and excitement. In April 1854 Elisabeth is sent to Vienna where she is to live in the Imperial Palace of Schonbrunn.Then on April 24, 1854 sixteen-year-old Elisabeth was married to twenty-four-year-old Franz Joseph, making her Empress of Austria. The marriage wasn't picture perfect, and became strained. One great loss was when her son Crown Prince Rudolph commited suicide on January 30, 1889. Later on September 10, 1898 Empress Elisabeth was assassinated in Geneva, Switzerland. She was sixty. I thought this book was good. I was fascinated by Elisabeth's beauty and how she helped creat the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

A good new book from The Royal Diaries series.

Fifteen-year-old Princess Elisabeth, called Sisi, is the daughter of Duke Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria and his wife, Princess Ludovica. She has had a carefree childhood in the Bavarian countryside. She spends as much of her days as possible horseback riding, her favorite pastime. But everything changes in the summer of 1857. Sisi's older sister, Helene, has been chosen to marry their cousin, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria. Their mother is taking Helene to meet Franz Joseph, and has decided to take Sisi along in hopes of finding a husband for her as well. But when Franz Joseph meets Helene and Sisi, he decides it is Sisi he wants to marry. Sisi becomes engaged to Franz Joseph, but she is far too young for the responsibilities she suddenly finds herself facing as the future Empress. This is not one of my favorites from the Royal Diaries series, but it was still a very good book that I recommend to fans of the series. I only wish it could have been a little longer, as Elisabeth's diary is only 93 pages. Also, some parts really could have used more detail.