The Mayerling Incident: scandal, suicide, and the Bavarian kink
A tragedy that might have changed the course of history
Around noon on 30 January 1889 Austria’s official newspaper Wiener Zeitung in Vienna reported that Crown Prince Rudolf, the 30-year-old heir to the fraying and fractious Austro-Hungarian Empire and h…
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