Elisabeth, who did everything in her power to be considered the world's most beautiful woman, hated her official duties and public engagements. She never became the mother of her adopted country, was not known for her charity work, and did not care for her subjects - except for those of a single one of the many nations making up the Empire - the Hungarians. How did the young untamed Bavarian girl turn into Erzsébet, the Queen of Hungary, today still fervently loved and revered as the patron of the Hungarian fatherland, the Patronae Hungariae ? For in Hungary she is not remembered as sweet Sisi, but as the popular Queen Erzsébet.