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Classy Girls Wear Pearls: Bringing Empress Sisi Back to Life

As Published on Classy Girls Wear Pearls by Sarah Vickers:

Empress Sisi & Emperor Franz Joseph
Photos by Sara Kerens, Creative & Art Direction Lacy Lynch Graphic Design by Caroline Crawford.

Right after the new year Kiel and I drove to New York to partake in a promotional Meet the Hapsburgs photo shoot for The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki. It was an opportunity that we couldn’t resist! I enjoyed the unique experience of dressing up like nineteenth century royalty. Kiel took on the role of Franz Joseph, Emperor of the Austro-Hungarian empire. I portrayed Duchess Helene of Bavaria and Camille Birkhead made a stunning Empress Sisi. (How gorgeous was her hair?!) The photos were fittingly shot at the luxurious Waldorf Astoria and St. Paul’s Chapel in New York City.

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Allison Pataki

Allison Pataki

Allison Pataki is a New York Times Bestselling author with a passion for telling the stories of leading ladies lost in history. Her debut novel, The Traitor’s Wife, came out in 2014 and her second novel, The Accidental Empress, came out in February 2015. Allison’s third New York Times Bestseller, Sisi: Empress on Her Own, hit shelves March 2016. In 2017 her fourth historical novel, Where the Light Falls, was published. Beauty in the Broken Places was released in 2019, a Memoir of Love, Faith, and Resilience. In May 2019 she published her first children’s book, Nelly Takes New York. Her fifth historical novel, The Queens Fortune, released February 2020 and her second children’s book, Poppy Takes Paris released May of 2020. Her instant bestseller The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post came out in early 2022. Her next historical fiction novel, Finding Margaret Fuller, hit the shelves March of 2024.
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