@deedragongirl Yes. Sissi's niece, named Marie, introduced Mary and Rudolf. She also was their go between. Marie covered for Mary's departure to Mayerling (there are even some rumors Rudolf paid her when she got nervous). After Mayerling Sissi never spoke to Maire again, and Marie had been her favorite niece.
This is not the Empress Elisabeth made famous by Romy Schneider. What you have here is a tough, intelligent woman with a brutal and ruthless streak. She was every inch an empress.
@Lytton333 Wow...it really is her! I had to take another look. Her facial expression are so much harsher in this scene that I hardly recognized her. She looks nothing like Lady Marjorie here.
@deedragongirl Yes. Sissi's niece, named Marie, introduced Mary and Rudolf. She also was their go between. Marie covered for Mary's departure to Mayerling (there are even some rumors Rudolf paid her when she got nervous). After Mayerling Sissi never spoke to Maire again, and Marie had been her favorite niece.
dht23 1 month ago
I also read that she (Sissi) accused her niece for being a negotiator to Rudolf and Mary, is this true?
deedragongirl 2 months ago
@BPFanatico Lady Bellamy not mrs!
kieran196 5 months ago
This is not the Empress Elisabeth made famous by Romy Schneider. What you have here is a tough, intelligent woman with a brutal and ruthless streak. She was every inch an empress.
samk1101 5 months ago
Rachel Gurney was just GREAT. *****
vonFalkenstein77 8 months ago
@soulgirl66
If Upstairs Downstairs had not started in 1903 but several years before that´s how Lady Marjorie´s/Rachel Gurney´s costumes could have looked like.
vonFalkenstein77 8 months ago
@Lytton333
Not MRS Bellamy but Lady Marjorie Bellamy.
vonFalkenstein77 8 months ago
@Lytton333 Wow...it really is her! I had to take another look. Her facial expression are so much harsher in this scene that I hardly recognized her. She looks nothing like Lady Marjorie here.
soulgirl66 9 months ago
@BPFanatico She's angry, but trying to restrain herself. Her only son is dead, and she's in the presence of the mother of the woman who killed him.
SapphireCrusader1988 10 months ago
Well I'll be blowed.. it's Mrs Bellamy of 165 Eaton Place!
Lytton333 10 months ago