00:01:52.360had been from Hungary originally. And so he was teaching her like whatever history and things,
00:01:57.100but just inherently from a Hungarian point of view. So she like had some interest and some
00:02:01.080knowledge in it. In 1857, she visited Hungary for the first time with her husband and two
00:02:06.100daughters. And this was, seems like it was her idea because Sophie was just like, what the fuck0.99
00:02:10.060are you doing? Why are you going to fucking Hungary? And she's just like, it's the thing1.00
00:02:14.240we're doing. Bye. And this left a deep and lasting impression on her probably, or perhaps
00:02:19.740Because in Hungary, she found a welcome respite from the constraints of Austrian court life.
00:02:24.000Like, frankly, she could have gone and hidden under a train bridge somewhere and been like, oh, I feel better.
00:02:29.160Like, if she just got out of that palace, like, anyway, Hungary was a place where people were nice to her and she could, like, breathe again.0.85
00:02:37.580At the beginning, at the beginning of the Habsburg Empire, Hungary was this tiny little backwards nowhere, like nothing part of the empire.
00:02:47.000and then and and then great grandpa lost the holy roman empire to napoleon and now0.69
00:02:55.540hungary's half of the empire like a like at the equal in size to austria equal in power
00:03:03.460equal in earnings and they they don't have as much of an excuse to treat them like
00:03:09.360a backwater nowhere as they did when they had spain and holland and
00:03:15.720yeah all of those parts proportionately it is suddenly much more important to them yes and
00:03:23.240it's power it's relative power is increased significantly and i would say cc recognized
00:03:30.020that in a way that perhaps other people did not um but also she just like liked it there they
00:03:35.720seem nice so she went to hungary both of her daughters who were both like babies slash
00:03:42.140toddlers they both became ill sophie was like you shouldn't have taken them there
00:03:45.720So Gizella recovered quickly, but two-year-old Sophie grew steadily weaker and then died probably of typhus.
00:04:05.340Anyway, so this was a further wedge between her and her mother-in-law because the mother-in-law especially liked baby Sophie because it was like the baby she named herself.
00:04:13.700herself anyway cc guess what got really depressed like because she had like i'm sure she had like1.00
00:04:20.300postpartum stuff going on anyway she had her like ongoing mental health concerns and then
00:04:25.300her toddler just died and sophie i'm sure is being like it's your fault for taking her hungry
00:04:29.880so at this point it seems she turned away from gizela her only living child um began neglecting
00:04:39.500her and their relationship never recovered she like basically was just like pushed her away and
00:04:43.860every time we're gonna like the next part we're gonna get into like her coping mechanisms anyway
00:04:51.860she turned towards these coping mechanisms especially when she was depressed which from
00:04:56.620this point on she is a lot when she experiences bouts of depression yes she experiences bouts of
00:05:03.740depression. And they are sometimes triggered by the deaths of people who she loves. And this is
00:05:10.760one of those. I just want to talk a bit more about Hungary before we get into that stuff.
00:05:15.100So she was just like, I really want to get a Hungarian woman to join my entourage,0.94
00:05:18.920like a little more servants who are like Hungarian. She just really saw their importance
00:05:22.400and she liked them. And so I love this detail because it's so mysterious. So she's like,
00:05:26.440I want to get a Hungarian woman as my lady in waiting. And so she's presented with a list of
00:05:30.060names of the highest echelon of Hungarian women. And at the bottom of the list written in a
00:05:36.720different handwriting was the name of Ida Ferenczi. So no one knows who wrote that name
00:05:43.720there or why. Because she was a Hungarian noblewoman, but she was nowhere near as high
00:05:50.960class as the other people on the list. And Cece was like, I choose her. And they became great0.86
00:05:56.260friends from ida which is maybe ida i'm not sure they became very close help you with hungarian
00:06:04.020hungarian is an entirely different language from every other language in europe except for finnish
00:06:09.820and i can't help with finnish either the names when i started getting into the hungarian people
00:06:14.420i'm like oh this is bringing me back to the elizabeth bathory episode like the names look
00:06:18.080similar to that anyway so ida i'm gonna say they became very close um and cc learned to speak
00:06:24.980fluent hungarian from her as well as more information about the country such that upon
00:06:30.360a later visit to hungary she impressed surprised everyone because she like gave opening remarks in
00:06:35.400completely fluent like perfect flawless accent hungarian and everyone's like wait when did
00:06:39.560when did cc learn hungarian and she's just like guess what i have an affinity for languages
00:06:43.720and everyone always underestimates me well they let me do yeah while i'm having my hair done
00:06:51.600I learn languages. Anyway, we'll talk about that too. But while they're on the second or the
00:06:58.160subsequent visit, she met the dashing Hungarian statesman, Gyula Andrasi, who had become one of0.82
00:07:04.160her close friends for the rest of her life. He was also, I have to say, a smoke show. He was0.95
00:07:09.460very good looking. Not a coincidence. Cece preferred to only hang out with very, very
00:07:15.040extremely good looking people. That's a preference she had. Anyway.
00:07:19.280your face are problematic but he gula andrasi was like a cool friend to her they were very close
00:07:27.240he was a they like he respected her and cared what she thought and they like worked together
00:07:33.460and that was like good for her she's got like a friend in 1934 so just to give you
00:07:39.540future information this guy wrote so a man named patrick lee firmer visited hungary in 1934 this
00:07:48.240is like decades after Cece's death. And he noted that her pictures of her were framed on desks and
00:07:52.980tables and grand pianos. And her love for Hungary and Hungarians was returned with interest and
00:07:57.120still declared 36 years after her death with all the ardor of Burke for Marie Antoinette.
00:08:02.800I don't know who Burke is, but basically she was beloved by Hungary. Like even years after she
00:08:08.500died, people just like, remember her. She was great to Hungary. In December, 1857, Cece became
00:08:15.620pregnant for the third time in three years. And she's still what, like 20 years old. And her
00:08:21.560mother who had been concerned about her like ongoing, obvious, visible health issues, hope0.99
00:08:28.560that this new pregnancy would help her recover, which is like the opposite of what pregnancy does0.99
00:08:34.800to people with health problems slash mental health problems, which brings us to. That's not how
00:08:40.900hormones work gigantic content warning for disordered eating body dysmorphia what else
00:08:49.600anorexia anorexia the exercise anorexia as well as as severe disordered eating and fat phobia
00:09:00.560like so much fat phobia that she would hate me and that's okay I still love her she I mean
00:09:07.460you have that in common with queen victoria don't don't tell me i have things in common with victoria
00:09:14.940well thank i mean all i have in common with victoria yeah anyway so this is just this is
00:09:22.820a content warning for all that stuff so we're going to put the time stamp for this in the
00:09:26.460episode so you could just like skip ahead and you'll know when you can come back or if you
00:09:29.760just want to skip ahead to the scoring we'll put that time stamp in as well and so we're going to
00:09:33.840talk about I we're not getting into like the CC diet which is like so much of what I read was
00:09:40.480just like here's what she ate here's what she exercised and here's her weight and her waist0.94
00:09:44.440measurement that I don't give a shit that's not what we're talking about we're just talking about0.98
00:09:48.420how her mental illness manifested is not as interesting as the fact that she was she was0.98
00:09:54.080dealing with a mental illness and working around it for the rest of her life exactly extreme degree
00:10:00.900exactly and i think based on like when people when newspapers wrote about her in her era they
00:10:07.460were like here's her diet here's her exercise plan and i think it was was with the intent of
00:10:10.840like other people should do it too and i really which is like no she has okay so cc was this is0.86
00:10:18.040notable and i find interesting five foot eight so she was tall for anyone as tall as me really
00:10:23.820yeah i didn't know you were five foot eight yes is that why you're drawn to mary queen of scots
00:10:30.320as well also all the tall ladies oh no I'm drawn to Mary Queen of Scots because my family all thinks
00:10:36.020that I'm related to Mary Queen of Scots even though I've definitively proven that we're not
00:10:39.860related to Mary Queen of Scots but they still argue with me well your family is German my family
00:10:46.240is every northern European okay that is not does not touch the Mediterranean yeah it's it's Irish
00:10:54.740english scottish swedish norwegian dutch german so you've got a lot of german on all four sides
00:11:02.820and and i feel like the german people are tall or like the scandinavian people are tall
00:11:07.900um german people have tend because they are very agrarian society um tend to have adequate diets
00:11:17.900as young people, height is very strongly correlated to the adequacy of your diet
00:11:24.080when you're young and breastfeeding and a lot of these other characteristics. So
00:11:31.760when you're not malnourished, you tend to grow taller. So Germans historically have been taller0.99
00:11:38.220because like their nobles ate vegetables. That was a weird trait about Germans is that their1.00
00:11:45.080nobility also ate vegetables they didn't just eat meat and bread so like everybody ate vegetables0.95
00:11:51.260everybody ate meat everybody well not everybody but like more people ate meat so every more people
00:11:56.480were much taller not quite swedish tall where everybody grew up on cow's milk and just giant
00:12:03.600bones but yeah so cc was five foot eight which i'm gonna say based on what everything you just0.62
00:12:09.840told me was maybe not that weirdly tall for a Bavarian woman. I mean, it's taller for the,1.00
00:12:16.680it's, it's taller than normal, but like, it's tall for a woman in general. Yeah. True. On the1.00
00:12:22.480upper end of, of, of, it sounds like super tall, but like my, my best friend is six one. So
00:12:29.060six foot. So like women, women can be any height, but on the average, she, she, yeah. So she,1.00
00:12:37.560she would be a tall woman for now she would be she would have been a tall woman for that so she0.91
00:12:43.220was in terms of just like the effect she had on people i think it would be oh we're gonna talk1.00
00:12:48.380about what she looks like later well i'll say right now she had ankle length hair she had the1.00
00:12:53.940hair of oh massive ankle length hair not like the thin scraggly and it grew that long it was
00:13:01.200it was a main yeah every portrait like she curly girled she yeah she so if you just picture it1.00
00:13:09.160like before i even talk about any of this other stuff if you picture a five foot eight woman1.00
00:13:13.100with a very pretty face walks into a room and she has ankle length like she has the hair of like1.00
00:13:18.840a barbie doll but longer like voluminous thick it's just like this is gonna turn heads like she0.99
00:13:25.320is a striking looking person. Also the hair is what I think to me before I learned all this
00:13:32.940stuff was part of mostly what I knew about her. Anyway, so she was tall. She was also very thin0.85
00:13:40.340because of, well, I don't know. I think maybe she was slim. She had a very tight, she had a very0.96
00:13:48.480small waist she was a tight corset person so um what people think historical corsets were like0.90
00:13:55.560she was that person oh my god yeah actual corsets were like so she was she was like fuller up top
00:14:02.820fuller in the hips and very very slim waist yeah which is different than being just thin
00:14:08.760it's it's it's a it's it's a different aesthetic than being someone who who is is a lot more
00:14:18.480straight she was like hourglass definitely and this is why i'm glad you're here as well so lana
00:14:22.760i forgot we didn't say at the beginning but people probably know you're one of the co-hosts
00:14:26.700of vulgar peace theater on patreon and almost every movie we've done so far has had some sort
00:14:31.020of like historical undergarments moment and that's where you shine i didn't know that was
00:14:36.740strength of mine but historical anger garments here i am but so cc um yeah so she did tight
00:14:44.080lacing so there's this like it's a pet peeve of so many like historical caution people i know
00:14:49.600i don't know costume designers i follow on social media and stuff where it's just like in bridgerton
00:14:54.900like in bridgerton in the regency era they're like oh let's pull your corset tighter it's like
00:14:59.780you realize that the dresses don't have waists like that's not but all those the things about
00:15:05.220like holding onto the bedpost while like five servants put like CC did that. It took like three0.94
00:15:11.020hours to get her laced as effectively as she wanted to be. Regular corsets weren't strong
00:15:16.940enough for what, for the look she was going for. So she went to, she said, I want the,0.81
00:15:21.280what the courtesans in Paris have, like, what are they doing? I want that. And what that was,0.99
00:15:25.440was leather. Modern day equivalent is Violet Tchotchke from Drag Race. Like very much that1.00
00:15:33.020tight lacing trainer super aesthetic super super stiff to keep it going violet if she could have1.00
00:15:42.620she would have had her bottom ribs removed level oh if that was a thing yeah she would have had1.00
00:15:48.880her body as morpheo was very extreme and if if um plastic surgery had been allowed oh yeah as much1.00
00:15:55.780as she liked natural being natural looking if plastic surgery had been allowed it would have0.99
00:16:00.820been a strong temptation for her. Definitely. So she, and even with the leather corset, it was
00:16:05.620laced so tightly, like even like this, you needed that strength to support all the body mass that
00:16:11.400was being distended, but also eventually those would wear out as well. So she, that was a thing
00:16:16.960she did. And which is also interesting that that's her preference because her mother-in-law
00:16:22.780expected her to be continuously pregnant. And she was just like, guess how not pregnant I am right
00:16:29.220now. So disordered eating patterns were a thing that happened, were, I don't know, a thing she0.80
00:16:36.500did. This was a manifestation of her mental illness for her whole life. She, she was very
00:16:42.640like calorically restricted. She would do fasting when, when it was, when she didn't match up to0.99
00:16:52.320this mental equivalent in her head. It's also probably interesting to note that Sophie was
00:16:58.340not a small woman. And so there's probably a manifestation of that as well. I am, I am not a
00:17:06.760small woman. So when I say like she, Sophie was probably also fat, Queen Victoria, that, that kind
00:17:17.220of, there was, there was a trend at the time, not to be slim, not to be skinny. That was not the
00:17:23.980trend at the time that was not what you wanted to be you wanted to have some some weight to you
00:17:29.480so you wanted to show your wealth yeah exactly so this it's not like other examples of like
00:17:35.980people who lose a lot of weight because it's like heroin chic or whatever it's not it's not like
00:17:40.500everyone wants to look really thin it's like no cc was doing this because this was how her body
00:17:44.280dysmorphia was manifesting she didn't want to look like this to fit in or to like to impress
00:17:49.800other people it was just like this is what she wanted that's how she felt her body should look
00:17:55.760yeah and she was going to do whatever it took to achieve that just one sec and it was not it was
00:18:02.240not to match trends it was not like today in this day and age it's a very different
00:18:07.480manifestation of the same things so today especially in the 90s it was very looked up to
00:18:15.740the cc diet her exercising her scorpia was was glorified nowadays we would glorify it but we
00:18:24.220would understand it but that back then it didn't make sense it was interesting to read about the
00:18:30.460stuff she did like the caloric restriction so she did a lot of exercise all the time
00:18:35.920and that's such a right but it's such a mainstream thing like you and i are similar-ish ages but like
00:18:43.000growing up in the 80s 90s the early 2000s it's just like every woman's magazine is like here's
00:18:47.700how you exercise to lose weight and here's how you diet to lose weight so it's just like that's
00:18:51.480just what life is like and life should not be like that and that's a shitty way to live but um
00:18:57.380CC was doing this at a time what was mainstream so Evan was just like oh what is she doing like
00:19:03.000like it confused people because they weren't familiar with obviously with like mental illness0.99
00:19:09.800they didn't know about anorexia let alone even the fact like it was scandalous that like a woman1.00
00:19:15.500was doing exercise everyone's just like what a woman like she had like balance beams or whatever1.00
00:19:20.220like she was like doing exercise was a thing men do for military training it wasn't a thing women1.00
00:19:25.320do yeah she's doing like calisthenics like that was shocking to people but it was with the it was0.69
00:19:36.440a manifestation of this body dysmorphia disorder eating stuff um she only wanted to be around
00:19:42.980attractive looking other people when her daughter gisela first met queen victoria um gisela was0.94
00:19:50.280terrified because cc had just like trained her daughters to also be horrified by fat people0.98
00:19:56.760screaming and running away from victoria i understand that part but because of her size
00:20:29.600so she had the disorder eating the fasting she had the leg like the exercising again i don't0.99
00:20:37.580want to get into the details but it's like hours a day of just like various horseback riding she
00:20:44.160was she was very physical she had to keep moving it was part of it it was part of her attempt to
00:20:51.240look i and she said this before her attempts to continue looking exactly like she did when she
00:20:57.580was basically 15 like when she walked through the door she never wanted to change and and there's a
00:21:04.280lot of psychological pieces of that that manifest like this was when she was happy was when she was
00:21:12.060tiny when she looked like this when she felt like this when she when she exercised and ran0.61
00:21:17.000but she couldn't climb trees as a 32 year old queen so she had a balance beam and yeah
00:21:24.860and then that stuff yeah and i think it also connects to if we're just like
00:21:31.920we're not deep diving into her psychology but like there's an element of like
00:21:37.340desexualization to what she was doing as well where her body was if she wanted personalization
00:21:44.580yeah so if she wants to be like the person she was when she was 15 like before she became the
00:21:48.640empress before she had to move here before she had children yeah so there's like a couple people
00:21:53.980later in her story where people are like oh is it her lover and i'm like i feel like she is not a
00:21:58.040sexual person no whatsoever she likes to be around pretty people but she has a lot of characteristics0.73
00:22:07.240that that would make me not surprised if she identified as asexual yeah or on that spectrum0.99
00:22:13.360yeah so again like she so we're going to talk next about her beauty regime which i think i'm0.58
00:22:20.100going to keep within the content warning era of just like cc psychology because it's still0.60
00:22:25.060body dysmorphia it's it's an it's it's a different kind of manifestation yeah so she was obsessed
00:22:30.760with looking like she wasn't she's 15 she was obsessed with her own personal beauty but again
00:22:36.420it wasn't to attract people it wasn't to be alluring it wasn't like she hated like when
00:22:43.220people looked at her when she was out but she was just like this is yeah this is what i want to look
00:22:47.100so her hair daily care was three hours a day she washed it like once a month there's all these like0.95
00:22:54.500you can google this it's like here's what her shampoo was made of like who cares but um but
00:22:59.020it took a whole day to shampoo her hair like yeah it was it was a whole like yeah it was a whole
00:23:04.000process no that's the thing where you're just like oh i can't go out tonight i'm washing my hair it's
00:23:07.920like true for her and i love this detail though so she they went to the theater and she saw the
00:23:15.200main actress in this play had this great hairstyle. She's like, who did the hair? And it was this
00:23:18.500woman, Franziska Feifelek, who was just like a stage hairdresser, like a lower class person who
00:23:24.980just like was skilled. And Cece was like, and I'm going to hire her and she's going to be my,0.99
00:23:29.720and that became her job. She got like an official job, bring me to the palace. Like she was the one
00:23:33.900who would tend to Cece's hair every day. Franziska would create, so it became like a
00:23:39.560art partnership almost like not quite at first i was like oh this is like a famous like stylist
00:23:47.160actress relationship where she's creating these looks for her and cc had stunning dresses there's
00:23:53.300this famous thing she had the cc stars these like diamond encrusted stars i forget how many they're0.86
00:23:59.260like 25 or something that she would just like pin throughout her hair so she walks in a room and
00:24:03.680you're just like, oh, is this like literally a Disney princess come to life moment? Like
00:24:08.920Ankle likes hair with diamond stars. Anyway, so Franziska, they became very close as you would
00:24:15.520if someone is like spending three hours dealing with your hair that is so important to you.
00:24:21.780Franziska would accompany her on her wanderings. She's always with her. She's forbidden to wear
00:24:27.380rings and required to wear white gloves. The hairs that fell out when she was combing her hair had to1.00
00:24:33.040be presented in a silver bowl to cc for inspection and she was always mad if any hairs came out i0.98
00:24:37.060read that francisca would as she's coming and hairs came out to just like tuck them in like0.99
00:24:41.240her bodice just so cc wouldn't so she could present her with uh also that that body dysmorphia1.00
00:24:46.140she doesn't want to change she doesn't want her her body to change in any way yeah she doesn't0.89
00:24:51.480want to lose a single hair but francisca figured out how to work around that um during the hours0.86
00:24:57.120long hairdressing session cc worked at learning languages she spoke fluent english and french1.00
00:25:02.440added modern Greek to her. She'd already learned Hungarian. So her Greek tutor, Konstantin0.92
00:25:08.300Christomonos, described the ritual. Hairdressing takes almost two hours, she said. While my hair
00:25:14.000is busy, my mind stays idle. I'm afraid that my mind escapes through the hair and onto the fingers
00:25:18.920of my hairdresser, hence my headache afterwards. The empress sat at a table, which was moved to0.63
00:25:23.440the middle of the room and covered with a white cloth. She was shrouded in a white laced penoir,0.87
00:25:27.420her hair unfastened reaching to the floor and folded her entire body the amount of hair like0.99
00:25:34.100it would obviously give her headaches unsurprisingly so they would do like a thing
00:25:39.820where they're like pin it all up and she would lie down and that would help so it's yeah it's
00:25:44.280just everything is like it's another extreme right it's another like this no one expected
00:25:50.860you to have ankle length hair but this is what she wanted to look like growing up one of my mom's
00:25:58.460friends had like butt length hair and during the winter she'd wrap it around her neck like a scarf0.77
00:26:06.420so it wouldn't get caught in her zippers yeah like it it becomes its own personality like this
00:26:12.700own thing you have to deal with and work around for your entire life absolutely one special ways
00:26:18.600to sleep. Yeah. It's like, I don't know. It's an extra limb. A friend of mine during when the
00:26:28.680pandemic started, she already had long hair and she just didn't get it cut for a while. And then
00:26:31.960eventually it became like butt length hair. And when she was like, okay, I'm sitting on my hair
00:26:36.020and I want to sit, she decided to get it cut. But yeah, it was such a thing. So Cece used cosmetics
00:26:42.900and perfumes sparingly as she wished to showcase her natural beauty, which I think also comes back0.99
00:26:48.240to being like the fresh-faced 15 year old that she was she didn't want to look so her whole thing
00:26:54.460was natural beauty and then by age 32 she decided she did not want the public image of her beauty
00:27:00.540challenged so therefore she did not sit for any more portraits and would not allow any photographs
00:27:04.700um when the whole um the the paparazzi incident happened and she like covered her face with a fan
00:27:13.280Yeah. So that's the thing, like in her later years, she would, she would walk around with a fan to cover her face and a white parasol. So it's just like fan parasol. It's just like, okay, that looks like that.
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00:29:58.440we look for the stranger than fiction stories
00:50:35.580I wonder how much she paid that doctor.1.00
00:50:37.200so she spent a lot of time leaving court to go get treatment at various spas1.00
00:50:44.040good for you let's see a quote from her so she also was intentionally avoiding pregnancy1.00
00:50:50.540she said quote children are the curse of a woman for when they come they drive away beauty which
00:50:55.780is the best gift of the gods that's body dysmorphia in one quote not that i not that i disagree with
00:51:03.520childlessness because i am also childless but yeah well i think i i don't know we we had that
00:51:09.880whole section but like if this is your like what does pregnancy do to a person with body dysmorphia
00:51:15.960i'm sure nothing good so of course she wants to avoid it but then in 1868 she finally quote
00:51:24.180finally agreed to have a fourth child for political reasons so back to hungary so her decision was at
00:51:32.120wants a deliberate personal choice and a political negotiation she figured by returning to her
00:51:38.460marriage like her marital bed she could like hold this over franz joseph to like finally get the like0.98
00:51:45.620austria-hungary thing to happen she wanted to have a her fourth child to be born in hungary
00:51:50.460like sort of symbolically to be like this is yeah so arguably he did know how to get what he wanted
00:51:58.680out of her by giving her what she wanted, which again is not a thing that normally would have
00:52:03.880happened in most royal marriages. They came to this compromise where she agreed to give him a
00:52:10.720child and he agreed to form the kingdom of Austria-Hungary. He agreed to recognize Hungary
00:52:16.840as an equal partner. Yeah. So in 1867 and largely due to Sisi's diplomatic work, Hungary became an
00:52:23.260equal partner in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Josef was crowned king of Hungary and
00:52:28.580Sisi became queen with Andrasi as prime minister. For her part in the Austro-Hungarian compromise
00:52:35.540of 1867, Sisi was beloved by the Hungarian people who were also given new freedoms as
00:52:40.460equals to the Austrians. And I think there was a big coronation situation, very exciting for
00:52:45.320everybody. Hungary presented the royal couple with a country residence in Godolo.
00:52:52.320I just don't know how to help with that one. There's a lot of umlauts in that word, just know.
00:52:57.020A lot of umlauts. Umlauta. Godolo. Anyway, Hungary presented them with a country residence
00:53:03.58032 kilometers, 20 miles east of Budapest. And Cece was like, great, I'm just going to live here
00:53:10.220basically permanently and do horseback riding for the rest of my life. So the next year,
00:53:15.040she lived primarily basically a hunting lodge yeah like it was very much balmoral for the
00:53:21.340austral-hungarians well and this is where i think she really um starts getting into horseback riding
00:53:27.900fox hunting so she lived primarily there and this is where she became like she's pregnant living0.83
00:53:35.400there the people of austria were just like why why doesn't she want to live here in vienna where1.00
00:53:40.220we were cruel to her the entire time like why would she ever leave us and they're like oh she
00:53:44.760must be you know androssi must be the father of this baby they made like a mean joke saying that
00:53:51.500she would if it was a son she would call him stephen after the patron saint and first king
00:53:55.040of hungary it would be so terrible if she names him after a hungarian people in vienna just
00:54:01.220anyway a lot and i love them and they're terrible and i love them i do i do it was a city 100%1.00
00:54:08.940population messy bitches living for drama so anyway she's like super chill and then Vienna's1.00
00:54:16.820like no we're going hard so anyway it was not a daughter it was sorry it was not a son it was a0.99
00:54:24.260daughter who she called Marie Valerie who is known as the Hungarian child so she was born in Budapest
00:54:31.020because it really isn't is it really a Habsburg baby if it's not named Marie
00:54:35.780i will say valerie is the first time i've had someone called valerie on this podcast ever
00:54:41.040there's also someone called stephanie anyway marie valerie known as valerie is the hungarian
00:54:48.420child who's born in budapest um baptized there and then she was plagued her whole life by rumors
00:54:54.280that her father was secretly andrasi but like she looked like her father who was franz joseph
00:55:00.280And Cece and Andrasi were not lovers because if nothing else, they were both extremely closely monitored at all times by people who would have noticed something like that happening.
00:55:10.400Cece was never alone, ever, ever alone as much as she wanted to be.
00:55:17.340Yeah, there's one of the sections this I almost want to call like Cece wants to be alone.