Lessons included arithmetic, grammar, sciences, geography, the languages of the Empire, fencing, swimming, history, literature, music and religion – lots of religion. He appointed Count Ferdinand Dengenfeld as his governor – a former army officer, very reactionary and unimaginative. Karl Ludwig educated his son to be a good archduke to reflect his own image. She went on to have two daughters of her own, Maria Annunciata in 1876 and Elisabeth in 1878. She was over twenty years younger than her husband and only eight years older than Franz Ferdinand, but she did her utmost to be a good mother to Karl Ludwig’s children and they sincerely loved and admired her. Karl Ludwig sincerely mourned both wives but decided that his children needed a mother figure in their lives, and in 1873 married Maria Theresa of Braganza. His second wife, Maria Annunciata of the Two Sicilies, the mother of three sons and one daughter including Franz Ferdinand, died at the age of 28 in 1871 from consumption. It was not all comfort though – his first wife, Margaretha of Saxony, died after only two years of marriage in 1858. He had “none of the Habsburg arrogance” to quote Princess Catherine Radziwill. Karl Ludwig quietly supported the Emperor by living the life of a rich nobleman and creating no scandal. He was not ambitious to be involved in ruling or the military – unlike Maximilian who achieved a leading role in the navy, or their cousin Archduke Albrecht who carved a career in the military and became Inspector General of the Army. Thus Franz Ferdinand was the first son of a third son, low in the pecking order of who would succeed to the throne – pretty insignificant.Īrchduke Karl Ludwig was a loving, pious family man. In 1857 he married Princess Charlotte of Belgium. And then there was Archduke Maximilian, the brother in between Franz Joseph and Karl Ludwig in age. At the time of Franz Ferdinand’s arrival, it was expected that Sissi would give birth to more children, that Rudolf would not be his father’s sole male heir and even if he were, he would go on to have sons himself. He married a beautiful Bavarian Princess, Elizabeth (known as Sissi), who, in 1858, gave birth to an heir, Archduke Rudolf. He was young, he was seen as a fresh, dynamic new start for Austria.
Franz Joseph succeeded as Emperor during the revolutionary year of 1848, taking over from his enfeebled Uncle, Ferdinand I, and bypassing his lacklustre father, Franz Karl. His father was Archduke Karl Ludwig, a younger brother of the Emperor Franz Joseph. She has appeared in such feature films and motion pictures as Sabrina, Christmas with the Kranks, The Substance of Fire, The Pallbearer, Thinner, The Secret of My Success, School Ties and Jacknife.When Franz Ferdinand was born in 1863, he was just an average Archduke in terms of rank, and was not expected to amount to much more than a leading member of the Austrian army.
ELIZABETH FRANZ SERIES
She appeared in the series Gilmore Girls, as the inn owner, Mia, and in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Cold Case, Dear John and Judging Amy. She played Helen Wendall on As the World Turns from 1994–95, and appeared as free-spirited beauty salon owner Marsha in three episodes of Roseanne. She became best known for her role as the villainous Alma Rudder on Another World, which she portrayed from 1982–83, while she was performing Brighton Beach Memoirs on Broadway. On television, Franz is most notably a character actor. She also appeared in Long Day's Journey into Night, The Glass Menagerie, The Comedy of Errors, Madwoman of Chaillot, The Lion in Winter, A View from the Bridge, The Matchmaker, The Wizard of Oz, Great Expectations, The Model Apartment, and Woman in Mind. She has starred in numerous Off-Broadway and regional theater productions, including the American premiere of Frank McGuinness's Bird Sanctuary. In 2004–05, she appeared at the Royal National Theatre in London, in the Sam Shepard play Buried Child. She won a Tony Award for her role as Linda Loman in the 1999 production of Death of a Salesman, which also earned her nominations for Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle awards, and she won Chicago's Joseph Jefferson Award, Boston's Elliot Norton Award, and Los Angeles' Ovation Award for a tour of the same production. Elizabeth Franz (born Betty Jean Frankovich) is an American stage and television actress.įranz was born Betty Jean Frankovich in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a factory worker.
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