Was What Happened at Mayerling Really a Murder-Suicide?
Mystery clings to the deaths of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf and Baroness Marie Vetsera
6 min readOct 14, 2020
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the discovery of the bodies of Austria’s Crown Prince Rudolf and his seventeen-year-old mistress Baroness Marie (Mary) Vetsera at his hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods sent shockwaves…
