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Mar 20, 2020 · Crown Prince Rudolf Facts. 1. He Was Spoiled Rotten. Rudolf’s birth on August 21, 1858, was a long-awaited and tense occasion. His mother, the feisty Empress Elisabeth of Austria, had only had girls before him, and his father Emperor Franz Joseph was anxious for a boy who could become the heir. Ecstatic to discover he now had a son, Franz ...
When Rudolf betook himself to Mayerling in January 1889, he was thought to be hosting just such a hunting party, but on the day after his arrival he shot his lover and himself with a pistol. On the official level, efforts were made to hush up the murder and suicide committed by the Emperor’s son. Although as a suicide Rudolf did not even have ...
Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozing from their mouths. Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary appeared to have shot his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera as she slept, sat with the corpse for hours and, when dawn broke, turned the pistol on himself. A century has transformed this bloody scene into ...
January 30, 1889. 1889-01-30 Archduke Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, heir to the Austro-Hungarian crown, is found dead with his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera in Mayerling in an apparent suicide pact. Rudolf was born heir apparent of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1889, as the third child and only son of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth of ...
Jul 18, 2019 · It was later stated that Rudolf and Mary both died of gunshot wounds. However, the Crown Prince may not have been known to have committed suicide. The Minister of Police was dispatched to secure ...
Jan 20, 2021 · January 30, 1889 — Archduke Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, wrote a tragic note to his wife in the early hours of this day. It read: “I am going calmly to my death which alone can save my good name.”. He then put a pistol to the head of his beautiful 17-year-old mistress who was lying in bed beside him and shot her dead.
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.
