NEW PRETENDER TO AUSTRIAN THRONE
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Man Claims He is Heir oi Murdered Prince SON OF SECRET MARRIAGE
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(Received llj 11.50 a.m.) VIENNA, Oct. 10. A slim, grey-hatred man with features resembling tliose of the Hapsburgs, but hitherto unknown, claims that he is Prince Karl Rudolf, son of Crown Prince Rudolf, who was murdered at Mayerling in 1889, and that consequently he is heir to the thrones of Austria and Hungary. This claim challenges • that of Archduke Otto hs pretender to those thrones. He tells a romantic story of liow, in 1880, Crpwn Prince Rudolf was married secretly to Princess Marie Antoinette, of Toscana. Princess Marie. Antoinette died in 1883, bpt had given birth to a son, who Was christened Karl Rudolf, but whose birth was kept secret. The child, he says, was placed among the 11 children of a wealthy Viennese family named Pachmann. Baron Wiesner, leader of the Austrian Legitimists, doubts the statement. He says : "What I know about the mother, whose real name is 1'rincesB Maria Antonia, Archduchess of Austria, does not permit the assuinption that she was secrctly married "
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 15, 11 October 1937, Page 6
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