ROYAL MEMOIRS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 99, 3 May 1913, Page 3

ROYAL MEMOIRS.

SCANDAL AND INTRIGUE,

London, May 1

The Countess. Larisch seeks, in her memoirs published to-day, to prove that her cousin, the Crown Prince Rudolph, in committing suicide after killing the Baroness Mary Vctedero, was 'hot simply the victim of guilty love.

The Countess endeavours to show that Prince Rudolph was involved in an attempt to separate Hungary from Austria and seize the ’ Hungarian Crown. The Countess says:-—“Two days before the Meyefling tragedy, tire Crown Prince entrusted me with a steel box enjoining secrecy, and bidding me deliver it only to one man who was aware of the secret. I begged him to confide his difficulties in the Emperor, but Prince Rudolph replied by signing his death warrant. The Archduke John, who afterwards went to sea and disappeared, gave the prescribed pass word and obtained the box the day after the tragedy, saying that had the Countess surrendered it to the Empress, Prince Rudolph would have been tried at Joseph’s instance and shot as a traitor. She asked was Prince Rudolph thinking of the crown of Hungary. The Archduke John nodded assent, and added that the fear of discovery might have impelled Prince Rudolph to commit suicide, and he concluded: “I.api going to die without dying.” ( ' , .

Some reviewers arc dissatisfied with the slender evidence thus presented as an alleged political aspect of the tragedy, while others attach the chief-

est interest to the Countess’ intimate study of the enigmatical and, ill-fated Empress.