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Signature. Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria (Rudolf Franz Karl Josef; 21 August 1858 – 30 January 1889) was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi). He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from birth.
Apr 4, 2024 · Archduke Rudolf, crown prince of Austria (born August 21, 1858, Schloss Laxenburg, near Vienna, Austria—died January 30, 1889, Schloss Mayerling, near Vienna) was the crown prince of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His reformist and liberal ideas were stifled by his conservative father.
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Mayerling incident. The Mayerling incident is the series of events surrounding the apparent murder–suicide pact of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his lover, baroness Mary Vetsera. They were found dead on 30 January 1889 in an imperial hunting lodge in Mayerling. Rudolf, who was married to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, was the only son ...
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Sep 23, 2022 · It follows the unstable, melancholic Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, who, newly married to a suffering Princess Stéphanie, begins an affair with the impulsive Mary Vetsera, and makes a frenzied suicide pact with her, carried out in his hunting lodge at Mayerling. The story is cynical and decadently titillating in equal measure.
Feb 5, 2023 · In 1889, the year of his death, Archduke Rudolf was the 30-year-old crown prince of Austria and heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His father, the Habsburg Emperor Franz Joseph, was deeply conservative, and ostracized Rudolf from government decisions.
Today the word Mayerling stands for more than the small locality of that name in the Vienna Woods with its two hostelries, two bus stops, a small private hotel, two Catholic churches, a monastery and a convent – it stands for an event. The village chronicle of 2008 describes it as the ‘most dramatic place in Austria’. Given that the convent now accommodated in Schloss
Rudolf, crown prince of Austria, was born 21 August 1858 in Vienna and died 30 January 1889 in Mayerling. Rudolf was the only son of Emperor Francis Joseph I of Austria and Empress Elisabeth (originally of Bavaria). During his lifetime regarded as either the liberal hope of the Habsburgs, or as a wayward radical and dissolute, Rudolf is best ...
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