Sisi - Season 2 (2022)

When Franz presides over the German League, Bismatrck arrives late with a great Dane, a statue of the emperor it urinated on and the claim that his Prussian king should take over the presidency. Franz feels that's a casus belli, but realizes he can't win a war, whoever starts it, without a much stronger army, which costs an obscene fortune. He intends to get a loan for it from napoleon III, who would cease to be an enemy to safeguard his 'invetsment'. To that end, the imperial couple travels to Biarritz, where he feels humiliated, but Andrassy suggests Ssi can win ...

Franz learns that Prussia is arming itself for a war and Bismarck is getting the German allies, even Sisi's native Bavaria's king Ludwig refuses passage to Austrian troops. While buying arms himself, Franz follows Marie's advice to choose simple models which fresh recruits, as will be needed, can handle, after nearly returning Marie to the nuns orphanage for intruding the crown prince's nursery and setting fire to an imperial bed, but also reporting bad child care from staff. Sisi visits count Andrasy's Hungarian home estate, where he confirms that Bismarck asked his ...

Körtek intends to kidnap Sisi; in joint captivity with Count Andrassy, Sisi is faced with the question of how long she can remain steadfast; Franz is confronted not only with his father-in-law, but also with Sisi's sister.