Can't Even Imagine How Franz Would Deal With All The People Being Rude About Sophie. I Really Want Someone

can't even imagine how franz would deal with all the people being rude about sophie. i really want someone to call out franz joseph for saying the assassination was a relief like your own wife was assassinated have some sympathy but also that would emotionally wreck franz i'm sure of it so i'm conflicted. and all the newspaper articles like the winnipeg tribune blatantly insulting her? ugh i can't even imagine

Joséphine: Whether I'm gonna curse you out or take you back to my house, I haven't decided yet, but I'm gonna get you back.

Thinking about how Mrs Everdeen got Maysilee's pet bird after she died and in-narrative it's presented as a nice thing but it was probably because Maysilee's family couldn't bear to have it in the house, especially since she died because she was attacked by birds

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and future wife Countess Sophie of  Chotek von Chotkow and Wognin, playing tennis.

"It seems, in the matter of love, that the two - the Archduke and the Duchess - were the wisest, yet the late Empress and the Archduchess Zita are more often held as the ideal, the pinnacle, as it were. But the romance of 'Sopherl' and 'Franzi', as they call each-other, is undoubtedly, even in such a subjective matter as affection, something that should be looked up to, perhaps even idealised."