When endowed with a title of royalty, Elisabeth learns new lessons about how women are caged within the palace and must remain aloof from the commoners, a contrast to who she is as a person.
When they wed, life takes her by surprise as the royal household reeks of conniving and sly motives, exhausting her and forcing her to play their game to experience a temporary win. She falls in love with her sister Helene’s suitor, Franz Joseph, the then reigning Emperor of Hungary-Austria.
In the series, we know her as Princess Elisabeth Von Wittelsbach of Bavaria. The Empress (Season 1) Recap & Ending Explained: Netflix teams with Sommerhaus Productions to have us witness ‘The Empress’, a German six-part series exploring the true-story telling of the journey of Duchess Elisabeth Amalie Eugenie (her true name in Bavaria), who struggles with herself and a family of royalty.