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While there, Vetsera supposedly had an affair with a British officer.^[11]

Relationship with Crown Prince Rudolf

In 1888, Vetsera became infatuated with Crown Prince Rudolf (1858–1889), a married man 13 years her senior, after returning from Cairo following the death of her father. One version is that this was accomplished that night, with the body of their niece sitting in the carriage between them, propped up by a broomstick down her back of her jacket.

Their liaison had lasted for three years...At the soirée I was struck by my brother-in-law's state of nervous exhaustion but I thought it well to try and calm him by saying a word or two about Mary which would please him, so I remarked quite simply: "She is very beautiful."...Rudolph left me without replying. Even her mother was forbidden to attend the ceremony.

2, 1992, p. Dr. Widerhofer was admitted at once to the chamber of the Archduke, where the body was already laid out, that of Mademoiselle Vetsera having been removed to an adjoining room, where it was disposed on a couch and completely hidden with a plain white coverlet, pending the arrival of relatives, who had at once been summoned....Although I entered the girl's death-chamber, I was prevented, from the position of the table, which ran lengthwise with the couch, from closely observing the body."^[22]

The facts of the incident are unknown; it has been suggested that she was killed by Crown Prince Rudolf, who then killed himself; that they both killed themselves; that they killed one another; and that the two of them were murdered.

When his valet, Johann Loschek knocked on his door to wake him up early in the morning, he received no answer. The wooden coffin was replaced by a copper one and a simple monument was erected by the family.

The official story of murder-suicide was unchallenged until just after the World War II. In 1946 occupying Soviet troops, perhaps hoping to loot it of jewels, dislodged the granite plate covering the grave and broke into Vetsera's coffin at the Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

On the left is Countess Marie Larisch, illegitimate cousin of Empress Elisabeth of Austriawho arranged assignations between the Empress' son, Crown Prince Rudolf, and von Vetsera.

Baroness Marie Alexandrine von Vetsera (19 March 1871 – 30 January 1889) was a member of Austrian high society nobility and one of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria's mistresses.

"Mayerling Revisited: The Short Life and Death of Mary Vetsera". He initially asked the first love of his life, one Mitzi Kaspar, to share his fate, but the 24-year-old woman declined. Some say she was pregnant at the time of her death; others, not.

In his book Crime at Mayerling, The Life and Death of Mary Vetsera, Georg Markus claims that what happened at Mayerling was never seriously investigated, and the few investigations that were made were falsified – manipulated by the monarchy.

Aftermath

Without judicial inquiry, von Vetsera's uncles were summoned to remove their niece's body from Mayerling as secretly as possible, and bury it just as secretly.

They were made available to scholars and exhibited to the public in 2016.^[24]

References

Serge Schmemann (March 10, 1989).

Other accounts, however, describe their relationship as being one of three years duration, which would have made von Vetsera fifteen when they met.^{[citation needed]}

[At Ambassador Reuss's reception in late January 1889] Rudolph noticed me and leaving Stéphanie came straight up to me. The skull cavity showed signs of trauma, which could have been inflicted by the grave robbers, or could indicate that Vetsera had died from a blow to her skull and not by the hands of the crown prince.^[21]

Holler claimed he petitioned the Holy See to inspect their archives of the incident, including records of the investigation by an apostolic nuncio, ArchbishopLuigi Galimberti, who had found that only one bullet was fired.

The crown prince excused himself and travelled to the hunting lodge in Mayerling, where he arranged for a day of shooting for 30 January. 114

^ The Last Days of Archduke Rudolph, p. By contrast, 17-year-old Mary Vetsera, the dark and pudgy daughter of an Hungarian-Armenian baron (Vecsera), was madly in love and willing to do anything for Rudolf.

Upon careful examination, Holler found no sign of a bullet wound on the skeleton. Forensic experts found the bones were indeed 100 years old and those of a young woman aged around 20, but since part of the skull was missing, it could not be determined if there had ever been a bullet hole.^[23] Vetsera's bones were re-interred on 28 October 1993.^[23]

On 31 July 2015, the Austrian National Library obtained copies of Vetsera's farewell letters to her mother and other family members which had been found in a bank safe deposit box, where they had been placed in 1926.