One monarch of this name was traumatized by the murder-suicide of her son Rudolf in the Mayerling Incident, and was later shanked in the heart by Luigi Luncheni on Lake Geneva, expiring after removing her corset which had hidden the injury.
One monarch of this name was traumatized by the murder-suicide of her son Rudolf in the Mayerling Incident, and was later shanked in the heart by Luigi Luncheni on Lake Geneva, expiring after removing her corset which had hidden the injury. The wife of Franz Josef I bore this name, as did a woman whose actions, revealed to Emperor Mathias by Gyorgy Thurzo, led to the rise of the lesser Hungarian gentry after they tired of that woman of this name (*) mutilating their daughters for sport. Three different Shuvalovs served a monarch of this name, whose 1761 death bailed Prussia out of the Seven Years' War after the ascendancy of Peter III. The niece of Stefan Bathory and daughter of Peter the Great bore this name, as did a monarch saved by Francis Walsingham from the Babington Plot, which prompted her to execute Mary, Queen of Scots. For 10 points, identify this name shared by a famous "Virgin Queen" of England.
One monarch of this name was traumatized by the murder-suicide of her son Rudolf in the Mayerling Incident, and was later shanked in the heart by Luigi Luncheni on Lake Geneva, expiring after removing her corset which had hidden the injury.
Elizabeth [or Elisabeth or Elizaveta or Yelisavet or Erzsebet]