她被誉为欧洲最美女人，被一见钟情改变命运，却为何只换来最悲惨的结局？

1988年，上海电影译制片厂把1955年德国和奥地利联合拍摄的电影《茜茜公主》（ Sissi）译制配音，一时间引起巨大轰动。

这部影片讲述了活泼可爱的茜茜公主和弗朗茨皇帝两人一见钟情，并且不畏严苛的皇太后追求真爱的故事。

罗密·施奈德（Romy Schneider）饰演的茜茜公主，纯真可爱，热情大方，吸引了无数中国粉丝。

就在今年年底，又一部聚焦茜茜公主的影片《束胸》（Corsage）将和大家见 面，北美定档12月23日。此外该片还将代表奥地利竞争本届奥斯卡奖最佳国际影片。

薇姬·克里普斯（Vicky Krieps）饰演茜茜公主，此前发布的美版海报中，她对着对着镜头做出轻蔑的手势。历史上，“茜茜公主 ”曾因美貌获得同时代人的赞美，但在电影中，着力表现的是她在古板沉闷的哈布斯堡宫廷中做出的种种“出格之举”。

在此前曝光的物料中，“茜茜公主”多次对着镜头吐舌头，还击打餐桌、当众做出不雅手势，这也正是她内心渴望自由想要躲避拘束的体现。

这一期的王室秘辛，我们一起来了解一下茜茜公主的故事。

Born 24 December 1837, Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie – perhaps best known by her nickname Sisi (or Sissi) – had been raised to be adventurous, curious, and creative. The family spent their days in the forests or up the mountains of Bavaria.

伊丽莎白·亚美莉·欧根妮（也许她最出名的昵称是茜茜）1837年12月24日出生，她从小就喜欢冒险，充满好奇心和创造力。他们一家人在巴伐利亚的森林里或山上度过他们的生活。

茜茜的父母马克西米利安·约瑟夫公爵和卢多维卡公主对子女采取亲力亲为的教育方式，让茜茜和她的七个兄弟姐妹自由自在地成长，并热爱探索大自然。

无忧无虑的少女时光很快被一次相遇打断了，茜茜的人生发生了彻底的改变。

In 1853, the 15-year-old Elisabeth, daughter of the Duke in Bavaria, accompanied her mother and elder sister Helene from their home near Munich to the Austrian town of Bad Ischl.

1853年，15岁的巴伐利亚公爵的女儿伊丽莎白，陪同她的母亲和大姐海伦从慕尼黑附近的家中来到奥地利的巴德伊舍镇。

The journey had been long, they were delayed en route and some of their luggage did not arrive, meaning they had to stay in the blackattirethey were wearing in mourning for the loss of one of their family.

旅途漫长，他们在途中被耽搁了，一些行李也没有运到，这就意味着他们不得不因悼念一位失去的亲人而一直穿着黑色的衣服。

This was not going to make the ideal first impression, for they had come to meet the young Emperor of Austria, Franz Joseph, to receive his formalproposalto Helene.

这势必难以给人留下理想的第一印象，因为他们是来见年轻的奥地利皇帝弗兰茨 ·约瑟夫的，并准备接受他对海伦的正式求婚。

Sure enough, the pair did not hit it off; Franz Joseph found Helene, who was his first cousin, too quiet. The emperor was, however, utterlybesottedby the beautiful Elisabeth, and shortly announced his intention to marry her, or no one at all. Five days later, they werebetrothed.

当然，这一对并不合拍：弗兰茨·约瑟夫发现，他的大表妹海伦太安静了。然而，皇帝完全被美丽的伊丽莎白迷住了，不久他就宣布打算非她不娶。五天后，他们就订婚了。

Elisabeth was not assmittenwith the 23-year-old Franz Joseph, whom she thought dull, humourless, and conservative.

伊丽莎白对23岁的弗兰茨·约瑟夫并无兴趣，她觉得他沉闷、缺乏幽默感，而且很保守。

When they married eight months later, in April 1854, the teen bride was seen sobbing in her carriage during the procession through Vienna.

8个月后，也就是1854年4月，他们结婚的时候，人们捕捉到这位少女新娘在维也纳的游行队伍中啜泣。

Being the empress consort came as no consolation since it meant she had to move to theintransigentlyformal imperial court, which would be a far cry from the freedom of her childhood.

成为皇后并不令人欣慰，因为这意味着她必须搬到正式得一丝不苟的皇室宫廷里，这与她童年的自由自在简直相去甚远。

At the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, by contrast, Elisabeth soon realised her introverted nature and dislike of rigid formality was muchmaligned, with her strongest critic proving to be her mother-in-law (and aunt), the archduchess Sophie.

相比之下，在维也纳的霍夫堡宫，伊丽莎白很快就意识到她因为内向的性格和不喜欢刻板的礼节受到了很大的批评，而对她意见最大的是她的婆婆（也是姨妈），大公夫人索菲。

Overbearing and highly influential, she had disapproved of Franz Joseph’s choice of wife and made no attempt to hide her disdain for Elisabeth’s unsuitability for the top of the Habsburg hierarchy.

她盛气凌人，威慑四方，她不赞成弗兰茨·约瑟夫对于妻子的人选，并且毫不掩饰她对伊丽莎白不适合担任哈布斯堡家族高层职位的鄙视。

（哈布斯堡家族是欧洲历史上支系繁多的德意志封建统治家族,主要分支在奥地利,亦称奥地利家族。）

Tensions only intensified when Elisabeth gave birth in 1855. Sophie not only took total control of the baby girl’s care, to the point of preventing Elisabeth from breastfeeding, but even named the child – and after herself, no less. A second daughter born the following year was similarly taken away from Elisabeth.

当伊丽莎白在1855年生产时，紧张的局势才得以加剧。索菲不仅完全掌控了对女婴的照顾权，甚至阻止了伊丽莎白母乳喂养，还给孩子以她自己的名字命名叫索菲。第二年出生的二女儿也同样被从伊丽莎白身边夺走。

These years took a heavy toll on the still-teenage Elisabeth, who started suffering from an eating disorder and bouts of depression.

这些年对尚处于青春期的伊丽莎白造成了沉重的打击，她开始患上饮食失调和抑郁症。

In 1857, her daughter Sophie fell ill and died during a family trip, in one of the rare periods when Elisabeth could care for her children.

1857年，她的女儿索菲在一次家庭旅行中病逝，这也是为数不多的伊丽莎白能够自己照顾孩子的时刻之一。

In her grief and guilt, she distanced herself from her other child Gisela. Yet she did not have long to mourn as she soon became pregnant again, for the third time in three years. This time, she bore a son.

在悲痛和内疚中，她疏远了她的另一个孩子吉塞拉。然而，她并没有时间去哀悼太久，因为她很快又怀孕了，这是三年内的第三次怀孕。这一次，她生了一个儿子。

Providing the empire with a crown prince, named Rudolf, at last gave her security and influence, and made her even more popular among the people. Unlike the court, they had adored her from the start: as a tall, slender and stylish woman, she was considered one of the great beauties of the day.

为帝国生育了王储鲁道夫，这终于给了她安全感和影响力，并使她在民众中更加受欢迎。与宫廷的态度不同，他们从一开始就崇拜她：作为一个高挑、纤瘦和时髦的女人，她被认为是当时的最美的美人之一。

茜茜公主的美貌也是令她自己都为之陶醉的资本，她也花费了极大力气来维持美貌。

茜茜公主编织的发辫上点缀着钻石星花的装扮方式成为当时很多贵族女子模仿的对象。

Of particular pride to Elisabeth was her hair, chestnut-coloured curls so long that they fell to her ankles. It required a three-hour ritual every day to look after, and on days that she washed it she made sure to have no other commitments in her diary.

伊丽莎白特别自豪的是她长及脚踝的栗色卷发。她每天都要花三个小时的时间来打理头发，在洗头的日子里，她要确保日记簿中没有其他任务。

These periods offered a much-desired escape from public appearances, and the opportunity to improve her mind as she spent the time learning languages, including English, French and Greek.

这些时间为她提供了一个她非常渴望的逃离公众场合的机会，同时也在她花时间学习包括英语、法语和希腊语在内的语言时，给了她提升思想境界的机会。

In fact, Elisabeth looked for any means to escape, both physically and mentally, the imperial court and her loveless marriage. Since she struggled to sleep at night, shevoraciouslyread literature, history and philosophy, and wrote her own poetry.

事实上，伊丽莎白为了能够从身体和精神上都逃离宫廷和她无爱的婚姻而想尽了一切办法。由于她晚上难以入睡，她如饥似渴地阅读文学、历史和哲学，并自己写诗。

But her primary focus (obsession even) was her physical fitness. Throughout her life, she kept up an extreme exercise and dietregimesto maintain her svelte figure. Every residence had a room that she transformed into a gymnasium, equipped with weights andapparatuslike balance beams, pommel horses and rings.

但她的首要重点，甚至可以说痴迷的是她的窈窕身材。在她的一生中，她一直保持着极端的锻炼和饮食方式来保持她苗条的身材。她每个住宅都有一个房间被改造成健身房，配备了举重设备和平衡木、鞍马和吊环等器械。

She also excelled in activities like horse riding – she was considered one of the finest female equestrians in Europe.

她还擅长骑马等活动，她被认为是欧洲最好的女性马术运动员之一。

She regularly lived on diets of thin broths, milk, eggs and oranges, but if her weight ever neared 50kg she would go through period of fasting. Her corsets could never be tight enough, with her attendants rubbing their fingers raw in the attempt.

她经常以稀肉汤、牛奶、鸡蛋和橙子为食，但如果她的体重接近50公斤，她会经历一段时间的禁食。她的紧身胸衣永远都不够紧，她的侍者们在尝试帮她穿衣时把自己的手指都磨破了。

她还用橄榄油洗澡，用鸡蛋和法国白兰地洗她的长发。因为对衰老的恐惧，茜茜公主从30多岁起就拒绝坐着画像或者拍照了。

她的生活方式和不快乐的婚姻令她的身体健康越来越差。为了帮助康复，茜茜公主认为应该尽可能多地去旅行。

“I want always to be on the move,” she reportedly said. “Every ship I see sailing away fills me with the greatest desire to be on it.”

据说她曾经说过：“我希望永远在路上，我看到的每一艘驶向远方的船都让我充满了登上它的愿望。"

茜茜公主的脚步遍布英格兰、爱尔兰和地中海地区，而她最喜欢的地方是匈牙利，也是她的努力促成了当时奥匈帝国的建立。

据说茜茜公主与当时匈牙利的传奇人物安德拉希伯爵曾经过从甚密。安德拉希伯爵曾成为匈牙利的领袖人物后为了与日渐崛起的普鲁士帝国抗衡，选择与奥地利结盟，这其中也不乏茜茜公主从中起到的沟通作用。

Most significantly, her efforts as a passionate mediator helped secure the Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867, ending Austria’s absolute rule and establishing a dualmonarchy.

最重要的是，她作为一个热情的调停人所做的努力帮助确保了1867年的奥匈妥协，结束了奥地利的绝对统治，建立了一个双重君主制。

那段时间，茜茜公主和丈夫的关系有所缓和，并有了他们的第四个孩子玛丽·瓦莱丽。 1889年，茜茜公主唯一的儿子鲁道夫和情妇玛丽·维塞拉一起开枪自杀，这给了茜茜公主极大的打击。

Elisabeth fell into a deep depression from which she never fully recovered, wearing black for the rest of her life and retreating even further from public life.

伊丽莎白陷入了深深的抑郁，之后从未完全康复。在她的余生中一直穿着黑色的衣服，进一步退出了公众生活。

茜茜公主花更多的时间去四处周游，并且疏于安保。这也为茜茜的遇刺事件埋下了伏笔。

On 10 September 1898, her yearning for travel had taken her to Geneva, Switzerland. As she walked to catch a ferry, an Italian anarchist named Luigi Lucheni approached and stabbed her with a sharpened needle file, puncturing her heart. She died shortly afterwards, aged 60.

1898年9月10日，她对旅行的渴望把她带到了瑞士的日内瓦。当她步行去赶渡船时，一个名叫路易吉·卢切尼的意大利无政府主义者走过来，用削尖的针锉刺伤了她，刺穿了她的心脏。不久之后，她就去世了，享年60岁。

茜茜公主悲剧性的一生走到了终点，但直到近两年在欧美影视圈，茜茜公主的故事依旧是热门改编题材，有很多戏剧、芭蕾舞、电视节目、书籍和电影都在讲述着她的故事。

其中最著名的就是我们开头说到的由罗密·施耐德主演的20世纪50年代的《茜茜公主》三部曲。

2009年翻拍的《茜茜公主》中，观众一致认可扮演茜茜的克里斯蒂安娜·卡波通蒂的美貌。

2021剧版《茜茜公主》中，由多米尼克·德文波特扮演茜茜。

2022剧版《茜茜皇后》中，黛芙姆·林瑙扮演茜茜。

对茜茜公主的生平感兴趣的话，也可以从这几部影视剧入手去了解更多。

今日词汇

attire/ əˈtaɪə(r) / n. 服装

proposal/ prəˈpəʊz(ə)l / n. 求婚

smitten with对...着迷

intransigently/inˈtransəj(ə)ntlē/ adv. 不妥协地

besot/ bɪˈsɒt / v. 使迷糊

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英文部分素材来源：History Extra: Sisi: the tragic life of the lost and lonely Empress Elisabeth of Austria / NYTimes: An Empress Ahead of Her Time Is Having a Pop Culture Moment

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