Sixteen-year-old Bavarian duchess Elisabeth "Sisi" falls in love with her sister's intended fiancé Emperor Franz Joseph and the two later marry. She moves to Vienna and finds herself having to navigate the complexity of court politics and her husband's scheming family members. Her mother-in-law Sophia, who is also her aunt, antagonizes her almost immediately. Her brother-in-law Maximilian, Franz Joseph's younger brother, keeps trying to outshine his older brother and prove that he is more worthy to rule.
Raymond Tarabay as Ambassador François-Adolphe De Bourqueney
Development
In December 2020, Netflix announced it was about to start production on a 6-part series with the working title The Empress based on the life of the Austrian Empress Elisabeth of Bavaria, nicknamed Sissi. The series would be directed by Katrin Gebbe and Florian Cossen with Bernd Lange and Jana Nandzik writing. Devrim Lingnau and Philip Froissant were announced as being cast in the lead roles.[5]
