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sissi's daughter name


I heard that the real sissi had three daughters Sophia, Gisela and Valery and one boy Rodolph but in Sissi's movies we only see a little girl. I was wondering what her name was. Was it Valery or Sophia?

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I guess it was Sophie, as she was Sissi's oldest child.

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Sophie died of a very bad bout of measles when she was 2.She was infected by her own young sister Gisele.

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I read a lots of books of Sissi, and she has three girls:

The oldest was named Sophie(who's died in age 3) after born Giselle, Rudolf and the youngest daughter was Maria-Valeria.

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In the movie's (well, in the original German version) we are told that the child is to be called Sophie

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When the baby is born, they say that her name is Sophie. But later in the movie, I Think when she comes back from somewhere and finds her daughter playing with a doll with her nannym well she calls her Gisele.

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For a lovely article about the real Sissi, and a reproduction of the famous portrait by F.-X. Winterhalter, see

www.tribuneindia.com/1998/98aug22/saturday/head3.htm





If the Kingdom of Heaven is like a grain of mustard, It can also be like a chicken-pox mark.

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wowie.

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the little girl we see running up to her mom is gisele.



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The child in the third film is never adressed by name (in contrast to the 2. part of the trilogy where the baby is called Sophie), at least in the orignal German version.
I think within the film's universe the kid in part 3 is meant to be Sophie, her first child. Historically it doesn't make sense of course (as mentioned above, at this time, after the coronation in Hungary, Sophie had already died, and Gisela and Rudolf were already born). I think they just changed that in the script. Leaving out the other kids for now and not letting Sophie die so young. The drama in the third film was focused on other things. I don't really think that they quietly let Sophie die between the 2. and 3. film and skipped right to a three year old Gisela without explanation. I always saw it as just another case of the script writer taking liberty with historic facts, like he did with other elements of the story for the benefit of his own vision of the script. Death of a child was not a theme they wanted to explore, I guess, or they chose the drama around Elisabeth's illness over it when writing the plotline for the third film - so they left it out and let Sophie "survive".
On the other hand, they are sneaky in the third script saying only "our little one" and so on, leaving the possibility of it being Gisela. They leave it open in a way.
Yet viewers who haven't read a biography of Elisabeth have no reason to think it's a different girl when they watch these three Sissi movies. The films give no explicit hint

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