Vilma Degischer

16 year old princess Elisabeth, 'Sissi', follows her mother and sister Helene to the Austrian court in Ischl, where the engagement between Helene and the young emperor Franz Josef will be announced. But he meets Sissi when she's out fishing and falls in love with her. Sissi loves Franz Josef but a marriage with him comes with a bonus, his arrogant and headstrong mother. (imdb)

Sissi is slowly adapting to life as empress of Austria but finds it hard to live with her mother-in-law. The arch-duchess Sophie is a genuine busybody who constantly interferes with how the emperor rules the empire and how Sissi brings up her first-born daughter. (imdb)

In what has become the last part of the Sissi trilogy, the young empress becomes heavily ill and has to go to Corfu, thus separating her from her baby girl. She gets to see her child again in Venice, and in doing so she conveniently captures the hearts of the hostile Italians. (mine)