Early in her reign, Sisi developed a deep interest in Hungary, then a rebellious part of her husbands empire. [6] For many weeks, the girl was unconscious, feverish and in great pain. 331-334. Article Source: Katrina Casey| Concerned that her sudden removal might stir the Captains affections for her, Princess Yvonne convinced Maria to stay at least until the wedding and the start of the school term. Look familiar? After having received the last sacraments in September, the son seemed better, but his condition worsened again until he died on 22 January 1869. At the start of her widowhood, Stphanie led a rather withdrawn life. [52], From the spring of 1887, painful scenes were repeated between the spouses. [59], During this time, Stphanie continued her romantic relationship with Count Potocki, whom she had nicknamed "Hamlet". Crown Princess of Austria, Hungary and Bohemia, Generations are numbered by descent from King. 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. Stphanie's last letter to her daughter dated from 1924, the year in which Erzsi had just obtained a divorce a mensa et thoro from her husband. When the Austrian Chancellor Kurt von Schuschnigg heard them on the radio, he invited them to perform in Vienna. Philippe Boesmans's opera, commissioned by the Paris Opera in 2008, stands alone: both sordid and droll, of unexpected cruelty but also irresistibly seductive, it reveals all the . Be good to the poor little one who is the only thing left of me. Her heart had been irreparably pierced long before her murder, however. Leopold II even planned to withdraw the title of Royal Highness from his second daughter, but court jurists demonstrated the impossibility of this. Maria did not marry Georg von Trapp because she was in love with him. [58] BBC Radio presented a different account of the family in October, 2009, in a play by Annie Caulfield called The Von Trapps and Me, focused on Princess Yvonne, "the woman Captain Von Trapp jilted in order to marry Maria."[59][60]. As Maria's stay with the family continued, the children and the Captain became attached to her and did not relish the thought of the day when she would return to the Abbey. On April 25, 1854, a shy and melancholy bride married into a major European royal house. 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. 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. [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. The names of the Trapp children were changed for the musical, along with their ages. "[4], Baroness Marianne married Ludwig, 6th Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn on 12 March 1942 in Glanegg, who was born in 1915 and died accidentally at Sayn in 1962. Stphanie's marriage quickly became fragile. Princesses of Austria, including female members of the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg and its successor the House of Habsburg-Lorraine who usually held the higher title of Archduchess . Stphanie, Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary, by Heinrich von Angeli (1882). Both his sons inherited this hereditary title of Ritter (Knight). He looks a little tired, he is too often on the road, he exerts himself too much. With Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Bhm, Magda Schneider, Uta Franz. (Over three decadesbeginning in 1880, anarchists killed a Russian czar,two Spanish premiers, a French president, and an Italian king.). [65] The Belgian sovereigns, offended that Stphanie did not primarily speak to them about her matrimonial projects, severed any relationship with their daughter and forbade her to return to Belgium. The inclusion of the Captains whistle was also a point of consternation for the family. [26] To his tutor, the Crown Prince confided, "A new life will soon begin for me and I must admit that this worries me a little". She bore Franz Joseph three children during the first four years of their marriage, but only two Crown Prince Rudolf and Archduchess Giselasurvived past infancy. But Maria did introduce the family to many Austrian folk songs and taught them to harmonize the parts. A mischievous free spirit, Maria sang at inopportune times during the course of her day and wasnt sure if shed fit into life at the nunnery. For her part, Stphanie remembered: "In the afternoon of 5 March, my parents called me. One was the French armored cruiser Lon Gambetta, sunk at .mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}3930N 1815E / 39.500N 18.250E / 39.500; 18.250 on 27 April 1915, 25 kilometres (13 nautical miles; 16 miles) south of Cape Santa Maria di Leuca. 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. 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. Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna. Elemr exhibited his artistic collections there, including antique furniture, paintings by old and modern masters, as well as precious porcelain. Everything wrong with The Greatest Showman (Historically at least), Everything Wrong with The Other Boleyn Girl (2008), Henry VII & Elizabeth of York: A Faithful Love. Her watercolors painted in Lacroma were published as an album in 1892. As of 2021, Stphanie had 8 great-grandchildren, 24 great-great-grandchildren and 32 great-great-great-grandchildren. This gave rise to fears for her life before she suddenly recovered. From there, their opportunities grew. Princess Stphanie was the second daughter of King Leopold II of Belgium and Marie Henriette of Austria. [25], The betrothal was formalized on 7 March 1880, when Stphanie was not yet 16 years old. If she could have only seen then all the service she would offer in her life, Im sure she would have been thrilled! However, the latter harbored other marriage plans with Countess Sophie Chotek von Wognin, a lady-in-waiting of the Habsburg court. He gave her, too, an extremely lively answer, in which he even hinted that she had better not interfere in matters which did not concern her". Contrary to general thought, the von Trapp children knew much of music, and the Captain is reported to have said that his children often did nothing but sing all day long. The oldest von Trapp daughter, Agathe, later penned that the Princess was not only a Vienesse countess, but actually a cousin of Georg's first wife! Social Security Death Index as "Rupert Vontrapp" 1 November 1911 22 February 1992; 05672 (Stowe, Lamoille, VT); 127-14-1082; Social Security issued in New York, Barry Monush: The Sound of Music FAQ: All That's Left to Know About Maria, the Von Trapps, and Our Favorite Things, 2015, p. 20, Electronic mail from Carla Campbell von Trapp Hunter from August 2010, The Villa Trapp is at Pina Budicina 11 at, "Tribute to Baron von Trapp Joined by Country He Fled", "Korvettenkapitn Georg Ritter von Trapp", National Archives and Records Administration, "Linenschiffleutnant Friedrich Schlosser", "Korvettenkapitn Georg Ritter von Trapp - German and Austrian U-boats of World War One - Kaiserliche Marine - uboat.net", Georg & Agathe FOUNDATION Honoring the von Trapp and Whitehead Heritage, "Movie vs. Stphanie and her daughter were placed in the third row. Martina - Born 1921. By the time the Third Reich annexed Austria, Maria had been with the Trapp family for ten years. Hanging on the ropes, she made a fantastic impression, like a creature somewhere between snake and bird. She chose to address herself by letter, in October 1899, to Queen Victoria who supported her. However, in 1922, Stphanie was delighted to receive her two eldest grandsons, Franz Joseph and Ernst Weriand of Windisch-Graetz. [77] Four weeks later, war broke out. [81] According to her granddaughter-in-law, author Ghislaine of Windisch-Graetz (ne d'Arschot Schoonhoven), Stphanie "was confused in devotion and even bigoted; she was convinced that her daughter was possessed by the demon and she could not tolerate the immorality of her love life. March 1927 - Princess Yvonne arrives (a distant relative of Georg's first wife), Yvonne tells Maria that Georg's in love with Maria but will still marry Yvonne May 1927 - von Trapp is determined to be engaged to Princess Yvonne but gets pert note from Maria, calls off proposal to Yvonne; thirteen days before Maria is to leave he uses . After the ceremony, a gala lunch was given with 60 people in attendance. Inside the unhappy reign of Sisi, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary. Neither her daughter nor any of her descendants were present at her funeral. ". After his death in 1947, the family home in Stowe, Vermont, became a ski lodge, the Trapp Family Lodge. While Stphanie blossomed in her new role of mother, this birth marked the beginning of deep marital difficulties. In August, Leopold, suffering from dropsy, was brought back to Laeken. Your mother and I are all in favor of this marriage. 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. Through a series of even stranger events than these mentioned, Maria accidentally accepted his marriage offer to her which was initially relayed by the von Trapp children! [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]. [14] He conducted ten more war patrols in the much larger submarine, attacking merchant ships instead of warships. His son, Stphanie's father, ascended to the throne under the name of Leopold II, and her brother assumed the title of Duke of Brabant as the new heir of the throne. This category has only the following subcategory. [43] Delighted to be released from the "official duties", Empress Elisabeth withdrew from court, while Rudolf broke away from his wife to whom he became less and less warm. No one had informed the Crown Princess of the nature of the illness from which her husband was suffering. The princess was saved only by the care of an unknown Ardennes doctor, whom the royal couple had consulted, who recommended cold baths. In real life and in the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, written by his second wife Maria Augusta Trapp, the Captain has been described as being a warm and loving father who was always around. The Nazis are waiting for them! The photo was taken while the siblings were aboard a private yacht off the coast of Mallorca. Stalked by the press, adored by the common man and bedeviled by depression and a severe eating disorder, Sisis royal career also brings to mind Princess Diana, whose life ended similarly tragically a century later. Trapp was transferred to the SMU-14, the former French submarine Curie, which had been sunk and salvaged by the Austro-Hungarian Navy. He should stay more with you; but have no fear!". [8] Trapp's first command was the U-boat U-6 which was launched by Agathe. Before rushing to judgment on the lives of German nobility, it should be known that the photographer behind this image was the children's mother, Princess Marianne Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn. E [15] Louise and Stphanie had to dust their room themselves. One of their guests, Father Wasner, was experienced in musical direction and began teaching the family formal singing techniques and arrangements. They leave under the cover of darkness but gasp! The consequences of this lie were dramatic: when the couple tried to conceive another child, Stphanie, who was not yet 22 years old, found it that she was sterile. [62], Emperor Franz Joseph I and King Leopold II of Belgium cherished the plan to remarry Stphanie with Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungary Empire after the death of Rudolf. This ladywas an Austrian noblewoman who had an abundance of wealth, and (apparently) a fondness for Captain von Trapp. After the armistice of 11 November 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire ceased to exist. Undeterred, they head into the Alps and cross into Switzerland, escaping the Nazis and beginning their new life. [8], In 1894, aged fourteen, Trapp followed in his father's footsteps and joined the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy, entering the naval academy at Fiume (now Rijeka). The feast days, Easter, Saint Nicholas Day and Christmas, were the only times when Stphanie and her sisters were pampered. In his diary, a servant recalled walking in on her mid-exercise, as recorded in medical historian Louise Foxcrofts Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years: When I saw her, she was just raising herself on the hand-rings. The new Emperor Charles I led the funeral procession, which included representatives of the Allied Powers, all German princes, and the members of the House of Habsburg. Actually, the movie is based not only on the books, but on the first German movie of 1956, which is its real blueprint. During the winter of 18781879, on her way to London, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (known as "Sissi"), mother of Crown Prince Rudolf, stopped at the court of Brussels, where the 14-year-old Stphanie was introduced to her. On 10 December 1865, her paternal grandfather King Leopold I, founder of the Belgian dynasty, died after a reign of 34 years. The family had a contract with an American booking agent when they left Austria. 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. Given this background, one can only hope that the shot above is the result of intentional composition and not reckless parenting. The arrival of the Red Army in April 1945, at the end of the war, forced Stphanie and her husband to leave their residence and take refuge in the Pannonhalma Archabbey in Hungary. In one of the more iconic scenes in film history, the Trapp family win first place at the festival but have disappeared during the judges deliberation. In March 1890, Potocki died and Stphanie once again went into a deep grieving. [70], When King Leopold II himself died on 17 December 1909, Stphanie had just, two days earlier, been refused a final meeting with the monarch. Trapp hired Maria Augusta Kutschera to tutor one of his daughters and married Maria in 1927. Some sources incorrectly credit Trapp with sinking the Italian troop transport Principe Umberto,[12] which resulted in the greatest loss of life in any submarine attack in World War I, but the ship was actually sunk by U-5 under another commander, Friedrich Schlosser (18851959).[13]. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. The patronages exerted by Stphanie were withdrawn from her,[67] and she thus received an annual pension of 100,000 guilders. He also refused a request for the family to perform at an event for Hitler's birthday. Sisi, on the other hand, was so nervous during the courtship that she was unable to eat. Her early upbringing from an apartheid era household where . The film is one of the most popular, successful, and enduring musicals of all time, and its probably because its success far outstripped the fame of the actual Trapp family that people think theyre fictional at all. [10], On 17 April 1915, Trapp took command of SMU-5. Georg Ludwig Ritter von Trapp was born in Zara, Dalmatia, then a Crown Land of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (present-day Zadar, Croatia). He conducted nine combat patrols in U-5, and sank two enemy warships. 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. This page was last edited on 18 February 2023, at 10:53. As with the Liesl Dress pattern, the Baroness Schraeder Dress comes printed on sturdy white paper in Sizes 6-20. However, in May, Stphanie (suffering from heart disease) and her husband left their residence to take refuge in the Pannonhalma Archabbey, protected by the International Committee of the Red Cross. Shes arrogant, shes snobbish, she plans to send the children away from home, and she does her best to get Maria out of the picture (no pun intended!) Trapp declined a commission in the German Navy after the Anschluss and settled in the United States.[1]. Captain von Trapp himself played several instruments and hired various music teachers for his children, many of whom lived at the villa at different points. On leaving Austria, the Trapps traveled by train to Italy (not over the mountains by foot to Switzerland as is depicted in The Sound of Music). Maria is convinced to return and face the fact that shes in love, only to find that the Captain and the Baroness are engaged. During this time, they went back to Salzburg for a few months before returning to Sweden to finish the tour. The territory of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was divided among seven countries, with the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes keeping most of the seacoast. Veesenmayer began to search all the archives in the house and confiscated documents of a historical nature, such as letters from Crown Prince Rudolf. [22], Stphanie had heard of Rudolf for the first time at the end of a literature class given by her housekeeper Fanny Brossel. Princess Yvonne. Once in Italy, they contacted the agent and requested fare to America,[28] first traveling to London, before sailing to the United States for their first concert tour. Their paths crossed for a single instant, only to move away immediately and forever. His father, Fregattenkapitn August Johann[7] Trapp, was a naval officer who had been elevated to the Austrian nobility as Ritter von Trapp when he was awarded the Order of the Iron Crown Third Class. However, the health of the Count, who was not yet 40, was so bad that he lost the ability to speak after surgery due to laryngeal cancer. [35] As a part of the wedding celebrations, the Emperor bestowed Walthere Frere-Orban with the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary and the Empress bestowed several ladies with the Order of the Starry Cross. In November 1916, the health of Emperor Franz Joseph I was declining, and his family came to see him. However, this second union was happy. In 1897, he resigned from the foreign service and retired from the public service. Yvonne at an event hosted by the AAOE. For instance, in the 1965 film, Georg von Trapp was portrayed as a disciplinary man who always went away and did not care for his children or their feelings at the beginning of the film. [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. The Germans were not so desparate, in 1938, that they would need him for their Navy or go to any special trouble to get him. In contrast to paparazzi shows but she never took indiscreet or derogatory photos: "I always photographed my friends as friends. Sources conflict on whether the marriage took place in January 1911 or January 1912. Princess Manni was born in Salzburg in 1919, the daughter of Friedrich Baron Mayr-Melnhof and his wife Maria Anna Countess von Meran. 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 Edelweiss Patterns new release for the "Baroness Schraeder Party Gown"! Calories and Corsets: A History of Dieting Over 2,000 Years. The maid stood in the room and watched us. 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. USA.gov, The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration If we ignore the ten year difference between when the Trapp children met Maria for the first time, their names and ages were as follows. Maria, who was addressed by the children as Gustl, arrived at the Villa Trapp by bus, with a guitar, in a dress that the poor didnt want. [56][57] However, the Captain was portrayed in a more negative light in many adaptations. Stephanie writes: "My education began at the age of ten; I immediately understood that from that moment books and notebooks would take the place of my toys, that a more orderly life would begin". I want always to be on the move, she wrote, according to Hamann. This lady was an Austrian noblewoman who had an abundance of wealth, and (apparently) a fondness for Captain von Trapp. Media related to Princess Stphanie of Belgium at Wikimedia Commons. After consulting with the Revenend Mother at Nonnberg Abbey, Maria returned to the von Trapp Villa where she informed the Captain, Th-they said I have to m-marry you-ou!, and buried her face in his shoulder with a sob. From 1874, Stphanie (who until then had a nanny, the Viennese Antoinette Polsterer) was placed under the direction of her sister Louise's governess, Mademoiselle Legrand. (Credit: Imagno/Getty Images), Sisi, however, dismissed all this attention. On 2 September in the Laxenburg castles complex, Stphanie gave birth to a daughter, Elisabeth Marie, known as "Erzsi" (short for Erzsbet, the Hungarian form of Elisabeth). But you may have wondered, Was there a real Baroness Schraeder, and if so, what wasshe like?. I loved, I lived/I wandered through the world, she wrote, but never reached what I strove for.. While Stphanie and Clmentine accepted the proposal, Louise refused it and initiated, in December 1910, a first trial against the Belgian State and her two sisters. [Map 3], On 3 September 1922, Agathe von Trapp died of scarlet fever contracted from her daughter Agathe. All Rights Reserved. [71] Her sister Louise returned to Belgium as well, and the dying sovereign also refused to see her. C.A. [27], The Crown Prince was 21 years old at the time of the engagement. [87], As long as they maintained satisfactory health, Stphanie and Elemr traveled and met various exiled rulers: the deposed Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria and the Empress Zita. Already rumors about her possible marriage were swirling in Europe. 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. As Agathe von Trapp described in her autobiography, the house was large enough that his voice wouldnt carry, and the walls thick enough that he couldnt be heard if the child in question was on a different floor. Her feelings would immediately be relieved and good humor restored, while other family members, particularly her husband, found it less easy to recover. 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