Editing Empress Elisabeth of Austria (section)

===Hungarian coronation===
{{further|Apostolic Majesty}}

[[File:Ferenc József koronázása Budán.jpg|thumb|Coronation of Franz Joseph and Elisabeth as Apostolic King and Queen of Hungary]]
[[File:Georg Raab - Kaiserin Elisabeth im ungarischen Krönungsornat.jpg|alt=Elisabeth in her coronation Dress Looking Over her Shoulder looking down.|thumb|Empress Elisabeth in the Hungarian coronation dress and rose diadem (1867) by {{ill|Georg Raab|de|Georg Martin Ignaz Raab}}|left|upright]]

After having used every excuse to avoid pregnancy, Elisabeth later decided that she wanted a fourth child. Her decision was at once a deliberate personal choice and a political negotiation: by returning to the marriage, she ensured that Hungary, with which she felt an intense emotional alliance, would gain an equal footing with Austria.{{citation needed|date = June 2016}}

The [[Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867]] created the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary. [[Gyula Andrássy|Andrássy]] was made the first Hungarian [[prime minister]] and in return, he saw that Franz Joseph and Elisabeth were officially crowned King and Queen of Hungary in June.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Tihany |first1=Leslie C. |title=The Austro-Hungarian Compromise, 1867–1918: A Half Century of Diagnosis; Fifty Years of Post-Mortem |journal=Central European History |date=June 1969 |volume=2 |issue=2 |page=115 |doi=10.1017/S0008938900000169 |jstor=4545523 |s2cid=145522363 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/4545523 |access-date=25 October 2022}}</ref>

As a coronation gift, Hungary presented the royal couple with a [[Royal Palace of Gödöllő|country residence]] in [[Gödöllő]], {{convert|20|mi|km|order=flip}} east of [[Budapest]]. In the next year, Elisabeth lived primarily there, leaving her neglected and resentful Austrian subjects to trade rumors that if the infant she was expecting were a son, she would name him Stephen, after the [[Stephen I of Hungary|patron saint and first king of Hungary]]. The issue was avoided when she gave birth to a daughter, [[Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria|Marie Valerie Mathilde Amalie]] (1868–1924). Dubbed the "Hungarian child", she was born in Buda 10 months after her parents' coronation and baptised there in April.<ref name="Sisa, Stephan 1995, p. 172" /> Determined to bring up this last child by herself, Elisabeth finally had her way. She poured all her repressed maternal feelings on her youngest daughter to the point of nearly smothering her. Sophie's influence over Elisabeth's children and the court faded, and she died in 1872.{{citation needed|date = June 2016}}