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TRAGEDY NEAR VIENNA
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THE tragedy of Mayerling- the mysterious death of the young Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria was spoken of with bated breath in Vienna for years. The tragedy staggered society. Although it was generally known that he had taken his own life and that of his mistress, Mary Vetsera, the Emperor, his father, -forbade any revelations whatever, and a secrecy of half a century fell on the mystery.
The one person. alive to-day who was intimately connected with the tragedy is a woman- Rudolf's wife, the Crown Princess Stephanie. After a silence of fifty years she has decided to write her memoirs and reveal the facts.
TALL AND STATELY Princess Stephanie of Belgium, Duchess of Saxony, Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Crown Princess of Austria-Hungary, is now Princess von Lonyay. At seventy-five she is to-day a tall and stately-looking woman, a splendid representative of an age that is past. Her complacency is amazing in a woman who has lived through 2 world-shaking epoch, and for this she thanks: the practical upbringing which Belgians, who was born an Arch- her mother, the Queen of the
duchess of Austria, gave her children.
In following the story of her extraordinary marriage to the Crown Prince of Austria it is dif- ficult to realise that it lasted only eight years, and to remember the extreme youth of both Stephanie and her husband. At thirty Rudolf took his life, and at twenty-four Stephanie was left a widow.
Rudolf at the time of his mar- riage was twenty-two years of age. He was vivid, romantic, active, and filled with plans for the future welfare of his country and of Europe. There is in Vienna to-day a growing party who declare that had Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria lived, and carried out his ideas, the
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World War would never have taken place. They consider that: he was a man who had a rare gift for constructive statesmanship. That he saw far ahead. But that he was not strong enough to stand against environment and the cir- cumstances that surrounded him. On the other hand, there are those who consider that Rudolf was insane, that he would inevit- ably have dragged his country and her dependencies to disaster. But, whatever the point of view, Rudolf was undoubtedly an enig- matical, strange figure, an in- teresting study for those who have not had to suffer at his hands.
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To this complex character the sixteen-year-old Princess Step- hanie, daughter of the King of the Belgians, was married in 1880. From the comparatively simple Brussels Court she was plunged into the splendour of the Court of Vienna. In her mem- oirs, "I Was to be Empress,” she describes the magnificent ceremonial of her marriage in Vienna to the heir of the Aus- trian Throne. In deep contrast is - her description of the reception she received on the first night of her honeymoon at the grim old castle of Laxenburg, where the rooms were cold as ice and smelt of mould. Nothing had been made ready in welcome for the bride; there was little furniture, no car- pets, no dressing-table, or bath- room; nothing but a washstand a three-legged frame. The youthful future Empress of Aus- tria found disillusionment at every turn.
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In the first years of their mar- ried life, when it was generally known that the Crown Prince and Princess were not happy together, Stephanie was largely blamed. When Rudolf took to drugs, spent his time in dissipation, and took. one mistress after another, he was excused on the grounds that he had to find some outlet for his domestic troubles. But his wife Stephanie was soon to learn that he had led that sort of life before his marriage, that he had been married off early by his parents in the hopes that he would then lead "a regulated and domestic life." Their plans were far from successful With Rudolf's dif cult, unstable temperament, it is unlikely that he would have- settled down with any woman, however perfect she might have been.
When the position became un- bearable for the Crown Princess she approached the Emperor, tell- ing him she was convinced that the Crown Prince was becoming insane, that his behaviour, his violent outbursts of temper, and mysterious activities all pointed to insanity. She hoped that his father would send him away on a world tour that would save his. reason. The Emperor listened politely and coldly to what the wife of the heir to the throne had to say, but took not the slightest notice of it.
Of the disasters that followed -the estrangement between the Emperor and his son by a hunt- ing accident in which the Em- peror believed that Rudolf de liberately shot at him, the pas- sionate love of the young Baron- esse Mary Vetsera for Rudolf, and her decision to die with hire, and finally the double tragedy at Mayering-is told from man's, a wife's, point of view, with all its sadness and poign- ancy revealed after fifty years of silence.
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