Source: Hapsburger.net Nowhere is Christmas celebrated with so much fervor as at the Austrian Court. A few years ago when Archduchess Marie-Valerie was a child…

In pictures, left, Archduchess Gisela of Austria, right, the archduchess and her husband with their children.  Archduchess Gisela of Austria was sober …

A portrait of Empress Elisabeth of  Austria by Winterhalter Empress Elizabeth of Austria was a woman ahead of her time. She had the guts to shun the str…