Elisabeth “Sisi“ of Austria · Living Behind These Castle Walls

*HD* “Elisabeth was an emotionally complex woman, and perhaps due to the melancholy and eccentricity that was considered a given characteristic of her Wittelsbach lineage (the most notorious member of the family being her favorite cousin, the mad Ludwig II of Bavaria), she was interested in the treatment of the mentally ill. In 1871 when the Emperor asked her what she would like as a gift for her Saint’s Day, she listed a young tiger and a medallion, but: “...a fully equipped lunatic asylum would please