Mayerling Incident
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The Mayerling Incident refers to the series of events leading to the apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover Baroness Mary Vetsera. Prince Rudolf was the only son of Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria, and therefore heir to his father as Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, and King of Bohemia. Rudolf's mistress Mary was the daughter of Baron Albin Vetsera, a diplomat at the Austrian court. The couple's bodies were discovered at Mayerling, Rudolf's hunting lodge, in Lower Austria on January 30, 1889.
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See also
- Baroness Mary Vetsera
- Ludwig II of Bavaria (1845–1886), whose death, allegedly by drowning, remains an unsolved mystery.
- Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
- Elvira Madigan
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