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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     King, Greg, author.     Wilson, Penny, author.     Subjects     Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, 1858-1889.     Vetsera, Mary, Baronesse, 1871-1889.     Habsburg, House of.     Habsburg, House of.     Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, 1858-1889.     Vetsera, Mary, Baronesse, 1871-1889.     Princes -- Austria -- Biography.     BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Royalty.     HISTORY -- Europe -- Austria & Hungary.     TRUE CRIME -- Murder.     Politics and government     Princes     Austria -- Politics and government -- 1867-1918.     Austria     Browse Catalog     by author:      King, Greg, author.      Wilson, Penny, author.       by title:      Twilight of empire :...         MARC Display

Twilight of empire : the tragedy at Mayerling and the end of the Habsburgs / Greg King and Penny Wilson. by King, Greg, author., Wilson, Penny, author. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017. Description:  xvii, 331 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Summary:  On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. 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 romantic tragedy: star-crossed lovers who preferred death together than to be parted by a cold, unfeeling Viennese Court. But Mayerling is also the story of family secrets: incestuous relationships and mental instability; blackmail, venereal disease, and political treason; and a disillusioned, morphine-addicted Crown Prince and a na?ive schoolgirl caught up in a dangerous and deadly waltz inside a decaying empire. What happened in that lockedroom remains one of history's most evocative mysteries: What led Rudolf and mistress to this desperate act? Was it really a suicide pact? Or did something far more disturbing take place at that remote hunting lodge and result in murder? Genre:  Biographies Biography Biographies   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 943.6 Kin 2017 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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