After reading the story of William Tell, the teacher decided to teach her pupil about the power and grandeur of the House of Habsburg and illustrated her words by showing her an engraving published in a magazine depicting the Crown Prince in hunting costume. Widowed since 1881, he was Chamberlain at the court of Vienna and a life member of the House of Lords in the Austrian Parliament. She expected Captain von Trapp to look like an old, grizzled pirate captain rather than the distinguished gentleman that greeted her, and she herself was the latest in a long line of governesses. Their honeymoon is cut short by the unification of Austria and Germany (the Anschluss) bringing Austria into the Third Reich. This list may not reflect recent changes. Veesenmayer began to search all the archives in the house and confiscated documents of a historical nature, such as letters from Crown Prince Rudolf. On this occasion, the Habsburg monarchy unfolded its full splendor for the last time. The result apparently only forced the Captain to confront his feelings which came to a head while he was visiting Princess Yvonne. Week #3 of the 1950s Sisters Dress Sew-Along! [8] As part of their required education, all naval cadets were taught to play a musical instrument; Georg von Trapp selected the violin. In 1938, the Captain was 58-years old, had not been in a submarine since 1918, or 20 years before, and had lost all his money through a foolish investment. I hope to see you there! The constant butt of taunts, her presence disturbs and irritates to excess. [71] Her sister Louise returned to Belgium as well, and the dying sovereign also refused to see her. When the Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them on the radio, he invited them to perform in Vienna. In 1900, Stphanie married again, to Count Elemr Lnyay de Nagy-Lnya et Vsros-Namny, a Hungarian nobleman of lower rank; for this, she was excluded from the House of Austria-Hungary. Kissing you with all my heart, your Rudolf who loves you". We exchanged alliances []. When the gender of the child was announced to Rudolf, he did not hide his disappointment at not having been given an heir to Austria-Hungary Empire, but he got used to his role of father and gave, in his correspondence, many details about the newborn girl. (Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images). Until World War II, Count and Countess Lnyay (elevated to the princely rank in 1917) peacefully spent their lives at Rusovce Mansion in Slovakia. She believed the Hungarian people deserved greater freedoms and respect, and collaborated with her close friend, the dashing Hungarian statesman Gyula Andrssy, to advance the Hungarian cause. The names of the Trapp children were changed for the musical, along with their ages. In 1886, he was appointed counselor of the legation. In hunting and sinking Gambetta, Trapp achieved a notable success as commander of the first-ever underwater nighttime (and only the second) submarine attack on a vessel in the Adriatic. In her biography, The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, Maria describes her potential rival as the Princess Yvonne. Nothing could have startled this future nun more, and it took all of Yvonnes energyplus the advice of her Catholic priest to convince the governess to remain with the von Trapp family. [4], In her memoirs, Stphanie wrote: "The first event that was deeply engraved in my memory was the death of this beloved brother []. But in her glass coach on the way to her new home in the sprawling Hofburg imperial palace, Sisi sobbedoverwhelmed and afraid. She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881, Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Before long the Princess returned to her castle, and things went on as before, except that Marias interactions with the Captain were very strained. The first candidate mentioned was King Alfonso XII of Spain, but this possibility was almost immediately denied. See Photos. [9], After living for a short time in Merion, Pennsylvania, where their youngest child, Johannes, was born, the family settled in Stowe, Vermont, in 1941. [25], The betrothal was formalized on 7 March 1880, when Stphanie was not yet 16 years old. Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. She is very frivolous". [30][31] Around 1936, Lotte Lehmann heard the family sing, and she suggested they perform paid concerts. Trembling and overcome with emotion, 16-year-old Elisabeth, known by her childhood nickname Sisi, was wed to. Isolated in the palace, she suffered through mental illness, mourned her beloved sons suicide and set off to wander the globe in search of peaceall before her assassination at the hand of an Italian anarchist. [Map 3], On 3 September 1922, Agathe von Trapp died of scarlet fever contracted from her daughter Agathe. On April 25, 1854, a shy and melancholy bride married into a major European royal house. Princess Yvonne was cool, almost to the point of coldness. Stphanie and her daughter were placed in the third row. Reality: The Real Story of the Von Trapp Family", "Movie vs. Leopold II even planned to withdraw the title of Royal Highness from his second daughter, but court jurists demonstrated the impossibility of this. Georg was born in Zadar (now in Croatia), which at that time was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. After studying law in Budapest, he had entered diplomatic service. By the time the Third Reich annexed Austria, Maria had been with the Trapp family for ten years. Affectionately known as Princess "Manni" or her more artistic moniker "Mamarazza," she was an accomplished photographer, her images becoming featured in magazines as well as gallery exhibitions. 1881: Allegory of the union of Rudolf and Stphanie by Sophia and Maria Grlich. After the death of her father in 1909, Stphanie joined her older sister Louise to claim from the Belgian courts the share of the inheritance of which they both felt they had been stripped. Stphanie received a negative response from Leopold II: "My father answered me in the severest and harshest terms that he refused me his consent. Horseback riding, fencing, fast-paced hikes and exercises adapted from the circusunusual for the timeconsumed her days. "Princess Yvonne" was the wife and magical partner of Doc Irving in their two-person mindreading act that played the major vaudeville theaters starting in the early 1920's. Billed as "Princess Yvonne the Oriental Enigma", Mary Ellen was fearless when it came to promoting their show. [28][33], In 1939 the family returned to Europe to tour Scandinavia, hoping to continue their concerts in cities beyond the reach of the Third Reich. Declared an adult at the age of 19, he already had his own household. They purchased a 660-acre (270ha) farm in 1942 and converted it into the Trapp Family Lodge. He worked in Bucharest, then in Saint Petersburg and Brussels. And so, Sisi wandered. In this 1955 photograph, thirteen-year-old Princess Yvonne of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn in Germany is shown tipping back a bottle of Dry Sack sherry as her twelve-year-old brother Prince Alexander sits calmly by, his cigarette nearly finished. She worked as a singer and missionary in Papua New Guinea, no children. They contacted the agent from Italy and requested fare to America. She traveled a lot and devoted herself to painting. With Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Bhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz. The official baptism took place one month later, on 25 June, in a ceremony which lasted an hour, in the chapel of the Palace of Laeken, where she received the names Stphanie Clotilde Louise Herminie Marie Charlotte; her first two names were in honor of her godparents, her maternal uncle Archduke Stephen of Austria, titular Palatine of Hungary) and her aunt by marriage Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. I was the Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary!". But we took it like a thunderstorm that would pass, because the next minute she could be very nice. Princess Ariana Maria-Gobertina of Sayn-Wittgenstein Berleburg (b.23 August 1985) [daughter of late Prince Richard of Sayn-Wittgenstein Berleburg (1952-2010) & his first wife, Countess Louise Batthyany de Nemet-Ujvar (b.1956)] married Zachary Wendkos this year. When she felt the first effects herself, doctors mentioned peritonitis. Instead of the fictional Max Detweiler, pushy music promoter, the von Trapps' priest, the Reverend Franz Wasner, acted as their musical director for over 20 years. In March 1919, the whole imperial family had to leave Austria. Maria came to the von Trapp family in 1926 as a tutor for one of the children, Maria, who was recovering from scarlet fever, not as governess to all the children. [8][Map 4] During this period, he delivered several lectures and conducted interviews on his naval career. She wished to go to her parents in Brussels, but neither Leopold II nor Franz Joseph I would allow Stephanie, who had become a Dowager Crown Princess, to abandon Austria. Princess Yvonne (born 9 December 1942) married firstly in 1962 Alfons, Count von Coreth zu Coredo und Starkenberg (born 1930), a photographer who served as honorary Thai consul in Salzburg (divorced 1970), and married secondly in 1976 physician Klaus Bolzano, Edler von Kronsttt (born 1936), and has issue from both marriages; [3] But the war cut their tours short at least. Elisabeth Marie, Princess Otto of Windisch-Graetz, Count Elemr Lnyay de Nagy-Lnya et Vsros-Namny, Archduke Stephen of Austria, titular Palatine of Hungary), Princess Clotilde of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife, Princess Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, "Baptme de la princesse Stphanie Clotilde Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte", King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa, "De opvoeding van Belgische prinsen en prinsessen in de negentiende eeuw", "De Louise van de Louizalaan: het onwaarschijnlijke verhaal van een Belgische prinses", "COUNTESS LONYAY INVENTOR. (Credit: Imagno/Getty Images), Sisi, however, dismissed all this attention. Firstly, the Captain felt obligated to continue his courtship with Princess Yvonne, the real life "Baroness Schrader" who was a distant cousin of his deceased wife. If she could have only seen then all the service she would offer in her life, Im sure she would have been thrilled! During the next eighteen months, she did not try to hide her affections for the Count from her husband, who continued his own liaisons. Thats not to say it wouldnt have been a nail-biting experience. I loved, I lived/I wandered through the world, she wrote, but never reached what I strove for.. With her ambivalence to public duties and reluctance to marry, the young bride recalled another royal born at the Hofburg almost exactly 100 years before, Marie Antoinette. Stphanie claimed to have warned the victims because the Emperor knew the danger that his nephew was running. Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him. With Hungary not yet undergoing many hardships, Stphanie set up a makeshift dispensary in the Rusovce house, while Elemr accepted a management position in the Austrian Red Cross which took him to Romania and Serbia. Stphanie, Princess Elemr Lnyay de Nagy-Lnya, by Jzsef rpd Koppay (c. 1900). Princess Yvonne. To allow her to truly see if the convent is where she wishes to be, Mother Abbess sends her away to a nearby family that. She lived with her family in, Married 1969 to Lynne Peterson and has one son, Sam von Trapp, and one daughter, Kristina von Trapp-Frame. Alinari Archives/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images. She arrives to find a stern and unyielding man keeping his home as he would one of his ships. The family was musically inclined before Maria arrived, but she did teach them to sing madrigals. The fever decreased and in October, Stphanie was considered to have recovered. FACT CHECK: We strive for accuracy and fairness. In May 1918, he was promoted to Korvettenkapitn (equal to Lieutenant commander) and given command of the submarine base at Cattaro in the Gulf of Kotor. [27], The Crown Prince was 21 years old at the time of the engagement. With the help of the nuns at Marias abbey they manage to hide themselves. But Maria did introduce the family to many Austrian folk songs and taught them to harmonize the parts. Trapp sought to help a friend in the banking business, Auguste Caroline Lammer (18851937), so he withdrew most of his money from London and deposited it in an Austrian bank. [66], On 22 March 1900 at Miramare Castle and after eleven years of widowhood, Stphanie married Count Elemr Lnyay de Nagy-Lnya and Vsros-Namny. When the King entered the dining room, the princesses would rise and bow before kissing his hand which he then put on their head, without a word. Foreign princes (among them the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and his nephew, the future German Emperor Wilhelm II) and members of the imperial family attended the celebrations, alongside members of the diplomatic corps and the Knights of the Golden Fleece. Cut in the shape of a shirt, they fell without any trim, below the knee; a leather belt held them back. [14] He conducted ten more war patrols in the much larger submarine, attacking merchant ships instead of warships. Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna. A long, cheerful noise arose from the crowd. The publishing contract was drawn up on 24 April 1934, but Stphanie's procrastination postponed the publication and distribution of her memoirs to October 1935, under the original title of Ich sollte Kaiserin werden (I Was To Be Empress) in German bookstores,[83] because the book was censored in Austria,[84] where the police visited every bookshop in Vienna in order to seize the copies already on sale. By the 1880s, it was clear Sisi was suffering from a serious mental illness herself. 1-86-NARA-NARA or 1-866-272-6272, National Archives and Records Administration, Northeast RegionBoston. One thing I always found interesting was the 11 year time shift, and I wonder if it had anything to do with the Captains World War 1 stint in the Austrian navy, where he was torpedoing Allied ships with U-boats. [14], If Stphanie's instruction was somewhat rudimentary, the discipline was strict: "We got up early in the morning: in summer, at five o'clock, in winter, at six o'clock. Under his authority the villa was extended and remodelled which allowed the Trapp family to sell it when it was returned to them after the war. Allegory on the betrothal of Crown Prince Rudolf and Stphanie of Belgium, by Sophia and Maria Grlich (1881). These were only intended to hide the true nature of the disease who affected him he had actually contracted a venereal disease, (possibly gonorrhea),[48] during his extramarital affairs. Early in her reign, Sisi developed a deep interest in Hungary, then a rebellious part of her husbands empire. She wants to marry Georg and is ruthless in her attempts to rid him of Maria and the children. Yvonne at an event hosted by the AAOE. Having grown up on the mountains, she had yet to acclimatise to the altitude difference which left her with debilitating migraines. The Queen therefore never left her son's bedside. Despite Rudolf's attempts to reconcile with his wife, their quarrel seemed deep. The young descendant of the last Austrian emperor lost her life to an aneurysm in her heart.. Leopold nourished the hope of having a second son and therefore resumed sexual relations with the Queen; but, after a miscarriage in March 1871,[8] another daughter was born on 30 July 1872: Clmentine, the last child of the royal couple. Press J to jump to the feed. [18], While her older sister Louise married in 1875 a wealthy cousin of their father, Prince Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Austrian officer and friend of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria,[19] Stphanie continued her studies and willingly took care of her younger sister Clmentine because Louise's departure left a void at the Palace of Laeken.[20]. She remembers: "The Emperor greeted me cordially. The doctor recommended the removal of the uvula and performed this surgery before his young patient went to Ostend to recover. Every ship I see sailing away fills me with the greatest desire to be on it.. Katrina Casey is the owner of Edelweiss Patterns, a company that specializes in patterns for Sound of Music costumes. [Map 1] Their other children were: Agathe, also born in Pula; Maria Franziska, Werner;[25] Hedwig, and Johanna, all born at the family home the Erlhof in Zell am See;[Map 2] and Martina, born at the Martinsschlssel at Klosterneuburg, for which she was named. In fact, Lucheni had stabbed her. Already rumors about her possible marriage were swirling in Europe. In November 1916, the health of Emperor Franz Joseph I was declining, and his family came to see him. Last edited on 12 February 2023, at 10:26, Alexander, 7th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Aline Griffith, Dowager Countess of Romanones, https://www.westwoodgallery.com/the-sayn-wittgenstein-collection, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marianne,_Princess_zu_Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn&oldid=1138917253, Princess Yvonne (born 9 December 1942) married firstly in 1962 Alfons, Count von, Alexander, 7th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (born 22 November 1943) married Countess Gabriela von, Princess Elisabeth (born 1 April 1948) married bank manager Hasso, Baron, Princess Teresa (born 25 April 1952) married firstly in 1973, Prince Peter (born 22 January 1954) married in 1993 actress, This page was last edited on 12 February 2023, at 10:26. 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She married in Vienna on 10 May 1881, Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria. Visit her website at http://www.edelweisspatterns.com. During our toilet, the most absolute silence was required; any breach of this rule resulted in severe punishment. Platinum Author [50] From that moment, feeling betrayed by her own husband, Stphanie harbored resentment and bitterness towards Rudolf. The British government rejected Whitehead's invention, but Austrian Emperor Franz Josef invited him to open a torpedo factory in Fiume. Princess Yvonne. Then they were invited to sing on the radio, then came an invitation from the chancellor of Austria, followed by their first European tour. The new couples mothers (who were also sisters) had intended for the handsome 23-year-old emperor to marry Sisis sophisticated older sister, but Franz Joseph had been captivated by the slight Sisi from the moment he saw her. While its true that the Trapp childrens upbringing didnt give them the range of folk songs and tradition that Maria taught them, they were a musical family, playing a range of instruments between them. [10] Leopold II thereafter lost interest in his family; he turned his attentions to the notorious creation of the Congo Free State, which was his personal fiefdom and not a Belgian colonial territory, and as such its ruthless exploitation amassed him a vast private fortune. Undeterred, they head into the Alps and cross into Switzerland, escaping the Nazis and beginning their new life. Additionally, Maria was hired to tutor just one of the Trapp daughters who, having suffered a bout of scarlet fever, was too weak to make the forty five minute walk to school and so she had little to do with the other children who were themselves altered as characters for the musical. The Trapp Family founded the Trapp Family Austrian Relief, Inc.; the priest Franz Wasner, their pre-war friend, became its treasurer. I began by telling him that Rudolf was very ill and that his pathetic appearance and his dissipated behavior caused me serious concern; I begged him to make his son take a long journey so as to distract him from his grueling existence. See Photos. Austria was under economic pressure from a hostile Germany, and Austrian banks were in a precarious position. They returned to Austria on two occasions while they were on tour in Europe before the outbreak of the Second World War forced them back to America. [17] Only the girls' maid Toni showed them constant affection. Like her mother before her, she also disinherited her two surviving children: she left some 500 heirlooms, owned by the Habsburg Imperial family and inherited by her, to the Republic of Austria, and the extensive park of her Windisch-Graetz villa, in a prime Viennese residential area, was willed to the city of Vienna for the construction of a new residential complex. Despite her title, its quite difficult to trace who exactly Princess Yvonne was but we can assume she was of minor German or Austrian nobility, though Agathe von Trapp believed her to be one of her mothers cousins. Rudolf is doing very well. The two princesses refused a new amicable agreement with the State, before their action was dismissed by the Court of Appeal in April 1913. So he approached Sisi as she walked along a dock to board a ship, attacking her with a small triangular file. [42], From October 1881, Stphanie replaced the Empress at official receptions. Despite the children calling her Aunt there was no warmth from her and she revealed to Maria during their first conversation that once her engagement to their father had been formalised, she would have all seven children sent off to boarding schools. [58] Stephanie had to obey and obtained permission to stay for four months at Miramare Castle, near Trieste. Shocked by the admission which had apparently come from the Captain himself, Maria resolved to return to the abbey so that she would be in no danger of encouraging his affections. [77] Four weeks later, war broke out. Thank you for reading about the real Baroness Schraeder story! Maria Von Trapp mentioned Yvonne in her book, "The Story of the Trapp Family Singers," and it's been written that Georg proposed to Yvonne several times, but she never accepted. Both Stphanie and Rudolf were sure it would be a boy; they even spoke of the future child by calling him "Wenceslaus" (Wacaw), a Czech first name reflecting the sympathies of the Crown Prince for the Slavic populations of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. While I was preparing this piece, the question I was asked most by the people around me was is Maria von Trapp a real person? Indeed, she is! The former Crown Princess's household was dissolved: all those who were part of it were dismissed, but some of them were assigned to her daughter's service. May not be republished or reproduced online or any other form. [3] He was fascinated by submarines, and in 1908 seized the opportunity to transfer to the navy's newly formed submarine arm, or U-boot-Waffe, receiving promotion to Linienschiffsleutnant (ship-of-the-line lieutenant, or lieutenant) that November. [3] They had five children:[2], Marianne, Princess zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Katrina_Casey/864888, 2023 EzineArticlesAll Rights Reserved Worldwide, The Real Von Trapp Family's Story Part 9 - The Sound of Music Legacy, The Real Von Trapp Family History - Part 1, https://EzineArticles.com/expert/Katrina_Casey/864888, http://ezinearticles.com/?The-Real-Von-Trapp-Family-History---Part-1&id=5712852. [85] In the book she published Rudolf's last letter to her, and proclaimed that (in her view) he and Baroness Vetsera had made a suicide pact. The Nazis are waiting for them! Your email address will not be published. The Captain and Maria return to find that he has been invited to serve in the navy but he cannot bring himself to join the Nazi party. A few things stood in the way of her permanency there, however. March 1919, the betrothal of Crown Prince Rudolf, son and heir of Emperor Franz Joseph of. 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