Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. This adage certainly applies to the lives of cousins, Queen Sisi of Austria and King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Born into regal roles, they’d rather live lives that are not straitjacketed. Jemc relentlessly focuses on just a couple of aspects of each personality: a well-developed taste for art and struggles to hide his homosexuality for King Ludwig and Sisi’s boredom at being solely a wife and mother. At times the lives of one-percenters seems overly privileged yet one comes away with sympathy for souls crushed by the relentless burden of heavy expectations.
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