Sisi, the miniseries

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 in German with subtitles. A nice costume drama.

Empress Elizabeth aka Sisi, was the "Princess Diana" of her time: Popular with the people but prone to break protocol so not popular with the aristocrats.

Unlike Diana, however Sisi interfered with politics: And her role in keeping Hungary in the empire as a co equal kingdom is true. (she even learned Hungarian language, which made her popular there). 

This version shows Sisi not just as a boisterous teenager over her head when she marries a prince, but emphasizes the political: trying to influence her husband to become more liberal and more "people friendly". It also shows the tensions between her and her overbearing mother in law. But it also brings up how her people friendly behavior made her popular and probably helped keep her husband on the throne at a time when revolutions were breaking out all over.

I haven't finished part two, so I don't know if the film brings in her hypochondria/anorexia nervosa/and constant traveling in later years. Presumably it ends before the suicide of her son and the lonely years of traveling before she was assassinated by an anarchist.

A nice miniseries, as good as the 1950s film for romance.