The Trailer for Netflix's Sumptuous 'The Empress' Looks Lush and Romantic

For those of you who are thirsting for a proper period drama amidst the seemingly endless onslaught of Fall mysteries, mark your calendars for the premiere of the upcoming Netflix series The Empress. The latest in Netflix's line of international foreign language imports (think Dark, Money Heist, and Babylon Berlin), everything about the show seems lush and romantic, with plenty of court politics and forbidden love.

A sumptuous period piece, the six-part drama is an exploration of the life of Elisabeth of Bavaria — known universally as Sisi — a German princess turned Austrian empress who marries for love and finds herself forced to navigate a world of intrigue and tension at the Viennese court as a result.

The daughter of a Bavarian duke, Elisabeth was meant for a throne. In fact, most of her family expected the young Emperor Franz Joseph to propose to her sister. But the young couple found themselves drawn to one another almost immediately, and their love would not be denied. The two married when Sisi was just sixteen, thrusting her into a highly public, powerful role for which she was wildly unprepared and that she did not particularly like. (Though she would go on to become one of the first celebrity royals, and was almost maniacally beloved by her people.)