from
Josef Gruebl
Royal dramas of unprecedented proportions take place, the people marvel and scoff at indiscretions, internal affairs and intimacies. The Windsors are not alone in this: The Habsburgs are also rumored to be about reserve princes, fighting brothers, unloved mothers-in-law and beautiful young monarchs. The only difference: The Viennese court treason is told more carefully than the one in London, he also has a better sense of timing. Which is probably due to the fact that life doesn’t always write the better stories: the characters from “The Empress” are purely fictional, despite real models.