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36. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 400–401.
37. Marie Valerie, diary entry of February 7, 1889, in Schad and Schad, 175.
38. Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 87; Morton, Nervous, 261–62.
39. Franz Josef to Katharina Schratt, letter of February 5, 1889, in Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 109.
40. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 401; New York Times, February 6, 1889.
41. Kugler, 3.
42. Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 97; Judtmann, 282.
43. New York Times, February 6, 1889; Morton, Nervous, 262.
44. Barkeley, 253–54.
45. New York Times, February 6, 1889.
46. Unterreiner, Crown Prince Rudolf, 26.
47. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 401.
48. Unterreiner, Crown Prince Rudolf, 26; Morton, Nervous, 264.
49. Barkeley, 256–57.
50. Bibl, 80.
51. Franz Josef to Katharina Schratt, March 7, 1889, in Bourgoing, 135.
52. Unterreiner, Emperor Franz Joseph, 55.
53. Marek, 288.
54. Empress Friedrich to Queen Victoria, letter of April 20, 1889, in Ponsonby, 371.
55. Bibl, 79.
56. Franz Josef to Katharina Schratt, letter of February 5, 1889, in Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 109
57. Le Gaulois, February 7, 1889.
58. Judtmann, 369n68.
CHAPTER 13
1. Le Temps, February 7, 1889.
2. New York Times, February 3, 1889.
3. Der Polizeibericht, 39–39.
4. Le Figaro, February 3, 1889.
5. Le Temps, February 5, 1889.
6. Le Matin, February 5, 1889.
7. Paget, Embassies, 2:470.
8. Louise of Belgium, 114.
9. Prince Philipp of Coburg to Queen Victoria, letter of February 10, 1889, in Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 148.
10. Revue Artistique Littéraire et Industrielle 1, December 1, 1896.
11. Judtmann, 369n68.
12. Prince of Wales to Queen Victoria, letter of February 12, 1889, cited in Van der Kiste, 106
13. Bibl, 114; Slatin, Abschrift.
14. Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281.
15. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932.
16. Judtmann, 321.
17. Ibid., 325–26.
18. Ibid., 333–34.
19. Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 343–44.
20. Judtmann, 315–16.
21. Wiener Tagblatt, March 9, 1926.
22. Neues Wiener Tagblatt, November 28, 1937.
23. Judtmann, 338–39.
24. Judtmann, 55; Listowel, 235–36.
25. Loschek, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, April 24, 1932; Listowel, 254.
26. Antonia Konhäuser statement, quoted in Friedrich, Der Kriminfall Mayerling, 263.
27. Krauss to Taaffe, report of February 2 (misdated March 2), 1889, in Lónyay, 209.
28. Judtmann, 358n5.
29. Der Polizeibereicht, 48–49.
30. Sokop, 223–24.
31. Larisch, My Past, 358.
32. Judtmann, 72; Larisch, My Royal Relatives, 222.
33. Ffoulkes, 316.
34. Stephanie, 259–60.
35. Ascherson, 214.
36. Le Figaro, February 9, 1889.
37. Reuss, dispatch of February 9, 1889, in Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 141–42.
38. Quoted in Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 401.
39. http://levantineheritage.com/testi47.htm.
40. Sokop, 237–38.
41. http://levantineheritage.com/testi47.htm.
42. Barkeley, 263; Judtmann, 174.
43. Judtmann, 175–76.
44. Ibid., 172–73; Bibl, 127.
45. Barkeley, 264; Lónyay, 212; Judtmann, 196.
46. Judtmann, 197; Marek, 285.
47. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 54; Judtmann, 72.
48. Lónyay, 212–13.
49. Judtmann, 174.
50. Markus, 35.
51. Judtmann, 177–78; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 224, 226.
52. Holler, 364.
53. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 237–39.
54. Ibid., 226.
55. Holler, 364.
56. Ibid., 140, 164–69.
57. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 442.
58. Markus, 56.
59. Professor Klaus Jarosch, University of Linz, report of September 11, 1991, in Markus, 72–73; Barta, 41; Markus and Unterreiner, 38–39.
60. Markus, v.
61. Professor Dr. Johann Szilvássy, Report of November 20, 1991, in Markus, 73; Barta, 41; Markus and Unterreiner, 39–40.
62. Markus, 76; Neue Kronen Zeitung, December 22, 1992; Neue Kronen Zeitung, December 24, 1992.
63. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 316.
64. Markus and Unterreiner, 45.
65. Markus, 141.
CHAPTER 14
1. Fugger, 184.
2. See Wolfson, 173–76.
3. See Lardé.
4. Markus, 65.
5. Le Figaro, February 3, 1889.
6. Le Temps, February 4, 1889.
7. New York Times, February 6, 1889; Le Gaulois, February 7, 1889.
8. Neue Freie Press, February 1, 1889; New York Times, February 1, 1889; Mitis, 165; Freisler, 10; Fugger, 202; Judtmann, 192.
9. New York Times, February 2, 1889.
10. Ibid., February 3, 1889.
11. Le Matin, February 4, 1889.
12. Le Gaulois, February 5, 1889.
13. Le Temps, February 5, 1889, and February 7, 1889; also Daily News, February 6, 1889.
14. See Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 195, for a list of all of those present at Mayerling from January 28 to 30, 1889.
15. Stephanie, 24.
16. Margutti, 97.
17. Ibid., 99–100.
18. Ibid., 101–102.
19. Ketterl, 76–77.
20. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 209
21. Le Figaro, February 2, 1889.
22. Le Matin, February 2, 1889.
23. Le Gaulois, February 3 and February 4, 1889; Le Temps, February 3 and February 9, 1889; Journal des Débats, February 4, 1889.
24. Der Polizeibericht, 54–55; de Fontenoy, Within Royal Palaces, 527; Vivian, 48–49; Marek, 254; Listowel, 253.
25. The Times, December 1, 1955.
26. Judtmann, 244; Barkeley, 271.
27. Reuss, dispatch of February 9, 1889, in Hollaender, Hantsch and Novotny, 141–42.
28. Le Temps, February 15, 1889.
29. Reuss, dispatch of February 9, 1889, in Hollaender, Hantsch and Novotny, 141.
30. Ibid., 142.
31. Judtmann, 198; Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 101; Sinclair, 140; de Weindel, 191; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 398; Ronay, 55.
32. Corriere della Sera, July 3, 1907; see also Le Matin, January 6 and January 7, 1910.
33. Judtmann, 252–53.
34. Corriere della Sera, July 3, 1907; Le Matin, January 6 and January 7, 1910; Judtmann, 255.
35. Louisa of Tuscany, 241; Larisch, 344; Mauritz Löffler statement, quoted in Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 252–58.
36. Cited in Friedrich, Das Mayerling Sammelsurium, 93; Judtmann, 277, 365–66n53.
37. Barta, 37–38.
38. Society Recollections, 235.
39. New York Times, January 30, 1910.
40. Louise of Belgium, 100.
41. Louisa of Tuscany, 239–42.
42. Recollections of a Royal Governess, 160–61; Vivian, 64.
43. Neues Wiener Journal, December 8, 1928; Neues Wiener Tagblatt, June 22, 1935
44. Loehr, 174; Mauritz Löffler statement, 1943, quoted in Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 252–58; Karl Albrecht statement, 1963, quoted in ibid., 273–74.
45. Wölfing, 51–53.
46. Ibid., 51.
47. Louise of Belgium, 131.
48. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 214.
49. Ibid., 273–74.
50. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 214.
51. Graves, 219–20; Society Recollections, 235; Barta, 37–38; Petit Parisien, April 16 1933; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 252–58, 267–271; Vivian, 62–64.
52. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 252–58; Society Recollections, 234–35; Vivian, 65.
53. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 414.
54. Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 7.
CHAPTER 15
1. Mahaffy, 182–83; Judtmann, 25; Listowel, 84.
2. Listowel, 84.
3. Szeps, My Life and History, 61.
4. Judtmann, 25, 27–29; Lónyay, 159; Listowel, 216.
5. Palmer, 263.
6. Stephanie, 259, 256.
7. Judtmann, 25.
8. Richter, 241.
9. Polzer-Hoditz, 434–35.
10. Markus, 63–64; Brook-Shepherd, 320; The Times, December 20, 1983; The Times, January 2, 1989.
11. Listowel, 84, 216; Mahaffy, 182–83; Judtmann, 25–29; Lónyay, 159.
12. Judtmann, 55–56; Mitis, 185; Lónyay, 149.
13. Larisch, My Past, 277–82.
14. Ibid., 323, 377.
15. Judtmann, 27. Rudolf’s first biographer, Baron Oskar von Mitis, questioned whether the crown prince would actually have handed a box supposedly containing compromising papers to Larisch, given her reputation for blackmail, but by this time she was so deeply enmeshed in his liaison with Mary that he might not have had another viable option. See Mitis, 182.
16. Larisch, My Past, 366.
17. Cassels, Clash, 87, 135–38.
18. Mitis, 81; Louisa of Tuscany, 231; de Weindel, 138–39; de Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs, 2:82–83; Listowel, 179; Cassels, Clash, 138.
19. Judtmann, 27; Lónyay, 159; Listowel, 216.
20. Polzer-Hoditz, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, June 22, 1935, Judtmann, 273; Neues Wiener Journal, December 8, 1928.
21. Polzer-Hoditz, 434.
22. Judtmann, 271, 273.
23. Larisch, My Past, 366–69.
24. Ibid., 317.
25. Listowel, 252; Polzer-Hoditz, 429–31; de Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs, 2:60, 2:82–83; Louisa of Tuscany, 230–33.
26. Die Stunde, September 28, 1923.
27. Der Standard, January 2, 1993.
28. Judtmann, 56; Mitis, 186.
29. Listowel, 3, 230.
30. Judtmann, 28–29.
31. Marek, 267.
32. Listowel, 1.
33. Ibid., 236–39.
34. Ibid., 238, 247.
35. Ibid., 218.
36. Szeps, My Life and History, 100.
37. Mitis, 145; Bismarck, 2:280.
38. Salvendy, 148; Wolfson, 98.
39. New York Times, February 2, 1889.
40. Graves, 221.
41. Grant, 17–19, 31.
42. Ibid., 184.
43. Ibid., 75.
44. Ibid., 185.
45. Ibid., 261, 280–82.
46. Ibid., 264–65.
47. Ibid., 270–74.
48. Wolfson, 91.
49. Ibid., 130.
50. Grant, 194–95, 227.
51. Judtmann, 188.
52. Wolfson, 65.
53. Neue Kronen Zeitung, March 11, 1983.
54. Ibid., November 20, 1983; The Times, December 20, 1983.
55. Szeps, My Life and History, 37–38.
56. Listowel, 159; Szeps, My Life and History, 110–11; Watson, 91.
57. Feigl, 7–65; Neue Kronen Zeitung, March 11, 1983.
58. Markus, 63.
59. Neue Kronen Zeitung, March 11, 1983.
60. Brook-Shepherd, 321.
61. The Times, January 2, 1989; Brook-Shepherd, 321; Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 142.
62. Brook-Shepherd, 321.
CHAPTER 16
1. Haslip, Lonely Empress, 404.
2. Eisenmenger, 31.
3. Lónyay, 2.
4. Mitis, 168.
5. Taylor, Habsburg Monarchy, 47; Haslip, Mexico, 23; Woods, 185.
6. Larisch, My Past, 159, 162–63; Vivian, 117; Radziwill, Austrian Court, 58, 88; Radziwill, Secrets, 111–12, 114–15; de Weindel, 145–46; de Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs, 2:114; Lónyay, 35; Marek, 57.
7. Stephanie, 23.
8. Chapman-Huston, 166–67, 176–77; King, 255; Channon, 111; Tschudi, 145.
9. King, 253–55; Chapman-Huston, 166–67, 176–77; Channon, 111.
10. Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 21, 272; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 3.
11. Mitis, 176.
12. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to the authors.
13. Barkeley, 21–22; Listowel, 25.
14. Barta, 6; Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 18.
15. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 288.
16. Ibid.; Franzel, 78; Listowel, 62.
17. Haslip, Lonely Empress, 326.
18. Rudolf, notebook entry, December 1873, in HHS, Box 12; also in Mitis, 26–27.
19. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to authors.
20. Ibid.
21. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of August 21, 1888, in Szeps, Politische Briefe, 163–64.
22. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to authors.
23. Salvendy, 173.
24. Ibid., 91.