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Dec 9, 2022 · Archduke Rudolf | Crown Prince of Austria---Born on 5 September 1919 in Prangins, Switzerland, Rudolf von Habsburg was the sixth child of Emperor Charles I o...
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Jul 15, 2021 · In 1889 The Crown Prince of Austria shot and killed his 17 year old mistress in an apparent murder-suicide pact. This act may have lead to World War 1 as we ...
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Jul 17, 2018 · The ritual was common for all the Habsburger, who wanted to get buried in the Imperial Crypt. It reminds the people, that in gods eyes, each human is the sam...
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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 ...
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.
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.
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Feb 5, 2023 · He and one of his mistresses, the 17-year-old Baroness Maria Vetsera, were found dead of gunshot wounds in a hunting lodge Rudolf owned in the Austrian town of Mayerling. From the notes that the couple left behind, it was deemed a murder-suicide. The event shocked Europe, and led to a succession crisis in Austria-Hungary.
