Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mother-in-law, while the arch-duchess Sophie is trying to tell the emperor how to rule and also Sissi how to be a mother.

Cast: Romy Schneider, Karlheinz Böhm, Magda Schneider, Vilma Degischer, Gustav Knuth, Walther Reyer