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The Habsburg dynasty is the most important, most influential, and most widely ruled royal family in European history. Its family origins date back more than 1,500 years.

In the sixth century AD, Li Yuan, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, took over the Sui Dynasty and established the Tang Dynasty. During the same period, the Frankish Kingdom in Europe was established. In what is now the Alsace region in northeastern France, the Frankish Duke of Alsace also established his own territory.

At the beginning of the 11th century AD, Li Yuanhao founded Xixia in mainland China during the war, and the Alsatian family in Europe also emerged. Four hundred years later, it gradually expanded its territory to the canton of Aargau, which now borders Switzerland and Germany, and built a huge palace there. The castle was named 'Habsburg', and the family took this as their surname.

In the middle of the thirteenth century, Kublai Khan established the Mongol and Yuan Empire. In Europe, Archduke Rudolf I of Habsburg was crowned King of Germany, and the Habsburg family began its 600-year rule over the Holy Roman Empire.

In 155 AD, Yan Song was in power. In Europe, Emperor Charles V of the Holy Roman Empire ceded the throne of Spain and the Archduke of Austria to family members respectively, and allowed their respective descendants to inherit their own thrones hereditary and were not allowed to pass them on to each other. Since then, the Habsburg royal family has officially split into the Austrian Habsburgs and the Spanish Habsburgs.

In 1700 AD, Emperor Kangxi was worried that he had too many sons, and formed cliques with each other to secretly peek at the throne. King Carlos II of Spain, who was far away in Europe, had no choice but to pass the throne to his nephew, Philippe from the Bourbon royal family, because he had no sons. Duke, ending five generations of Habsburg rule in Spain. The Bourbon royal family continues to this day, and the current Spanish King Juan Carlos is a direct descendant of Duke Philip.

In the 11th year after losing the throne, the Spanish Habsburg family lost the family's last stronghold, Barcelona, ​​in the war with the Franks. Since then, the Spanish Habsburg family has slowly disappeared into the dust of history.

In 1740, Emperor Qianlong "returned his native land to his native land" and sent troops to pacify the Hunan and Guizhou chieftains. At the same time, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI died. Since neither he nor his brothers left any sons, his eldest daughter Maria Theresa succeeded the Archduke of Austria, the throne of Bohemia and Hungary, and his His son-in-law, Francis I, Duke of Lorraine, was elected Holy Roman Emperor the following year.

After that, Emperor Franz I added his wife's surname in front of his own, and their descendants all adopted the surname "Habsburg-Lorraine". Since then, Austria has entered the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty.

In 1805, peasant uprisings in Shaanxi, Sichuan and Chu were suppressed by Emperor Jiaqing, and the Qing Dynasty gradually declined from this year on. In the same year, French Emperor Napoleon defeated the allied forces of the Holy Roman Empire and Tsarist Russia, and forced Francis II to dissolve the Holy Rome the following year.

The German Confederation was established, and the empire that had lasted for nearly a century disappeared.

The House of Habsburg-Lorraine lost most of Europe.

AD 18 Xiangshan, Guangdong. In Europe, the last male leader of the Habsburg family, the Austrian Emperor Franz Joseph I, was crowned King of Hungary, established the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and became the emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He has a very beautiful queen, Princess Sissi.

In World War 1, the Central Powers grouped by Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire were defeated, and Austria was established as a republic. At this point, the Habsburg and Habsburg-Lorraine families have completely lost their clan, and family members have fled to America for refuge. From then on, they gradually became sparse and scattered.

The Habsburg royal family has withdrawn from the stage of history, but their glorious family history has established their status as the most powerful family in Europe. Because of its long history and far-reaching influence, the existing royal families in Europe today have various relatives with the Habsburgs, and even almost all senior nobles have connections with them.

It was not until the end of World War II that the last Crown Prince Otto von Habsburg-Lorraine sought permission from the Austrian government in the United States, and members of the Habsburg-Lorraine family were able to return to Vienna and were returned to many families. property. Now the head of the family, he once served as Germany's representative in the European Parliament.

As the only direct blood descendants of the great Emperor Franz Joseph I and Princess Sissi, the Koko family and their family did not have close or even close contact with the family leader Otto. All this stems from a tortuous story.

After Princess Sissi and Emperor Franz Joseph got married, they were not as happy as described in film and television literature. Although the couple was very loving, things in the royal palace compound were by no means as simple as a young couple living. Princess Sissi, who was happy and innocent by nature, was not used to the harsh red tape in the palace. She had many conflicts with her mother-in-law and the Queen Mother Sophie, who called her a 'wild girl from the countryside'.

Moreover, the first problem facing Princess Sissi is to quickly give birth to an heir to the throne and a son for her husband.

The men of the Habsburg family may have genetic problems, and the population has not been strong for more than a thousand years. Both the Spanish Habsburg and the Austrian Habsburg had to interrupt their inheritance due to the death of heirs. After arriving in Habsburg-Lorraine, the genes have changed, but it is still not easy to have a son.

In the first two years of their marriage, Princess Sissi gave birth to two daughters. The eldest daughter, Grand Duchess Sofia, died at an early age of more than two years old, and the second daughter, Grand Duchess Gisela, had also been in poor health. It was not until four years after their marriage that Princess Sissi gave birth to Rudolf, his and the emperor's only son.

Just like the two previous daughters, her son was taken away and raised by the Empress Dowager after he was born. It was difficult for Sissi to even see her child, and she could not see her son all year round. The beautiful Princess Sissi missed her son so much that she gradually became depressed. It was rumored that she suffered from severe depression.

Crown Prince Rudolf grew up slowly, but because he had little contact with his mother and had no sense of intimacy, he had a better relationship with his grandmother. He was very alienated from Sissi and even resented his mother. The conflict between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law is instilled in the minds of future generations, and Queen Mother Sophie is a bad old woman.

Rudolf 1 persuaded him not to be only interested in natural science and mineral collection, nor to be confused with so many little girls, but to focus on his identity as the crown prince of the empire. After Rudolf had a big fight with his mother, he walked away.

The extremely sad Princess Sissi told her husband, and then took her entourage and guards to Florence to relax, and thus, there was the colorful flower alley.

In fact, Rudolf and his mother have very similar personalities. Both of them are free and romantic, but they just can't talk about it together. Princess Sissi often sheds tears alone for this.

Princess Sissi, who grew up in a carefree environment, is very kind-hearted by nature. Her innocent, lovely and joyful character can infect the people around her, and her husband is also deeply fascinated by her and loves her to the fullest. After becoming the empress of the empire, Princess Sissi was graceful and kind to her mother, and was deeply loved by the people. The empress was also very kind to her people. Her warm smile warmed the hearts of every citizen who came into contact with her. The empress did not He had no disdain for the vulgarity and filthiness of the ordinary working people, and he never looked at them as aristocrats looked down on the common people.

Princess Sissi was supposed to be a happy angel on earth, but being a queen made her suffer a lot, and huge bad news was coming to her.