Died For Love
TRAGIC ROYAL ROMANCE Death Rather Than Crown STORY FORTY - YEARS’ OLD By Cable. — Press Association. — Copyright. Reed. 10.14 a.m. PARIS, Friday. THIRTY-NINE years after the Mayerling tragedy, when the Archduke Rudolf of Austria and the beautiful Maria Vetsera were found dead in the Imperial hunting lodge, the first authentic account of it appears.
THE memoirs of the late Empress Eugenie, just published, relate how Rudolf’s mother, the Empress Elizabeth, widow of the Emperor Francis Joseph, revealed the full story. It appears that Rudolf, after a violent quarrel with the Emperor, consented to break the liaison, and gained permission for a last farewell. Maria was waiting for dinner at the hunting lodge. He told her the promise he had given his father under
threat o£ renouncing his rights to the throne. She replied cooly, “I am expecting to become a mother.” They talked all night, and agreed to die together. Rudolf shot Maria in the heart and laid her body on a bed covered with roses from vases. Then he wrote his mother a long letter, in which he said: “I have killed someone; I no longer have the right to live.” At six in the morning Rudolf died with a bullet in his brain. —Sun.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 1
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208Died For Love Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 318, 31 March 1928, Page 1
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