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1. Mahaffy, 182–83; Judtmann, 25; Listowel, 84.
2. Listowel, 84.
3. Szeps, My Life and History, 61.
4. Judtmann, 25, 27–29; Lónyay, 159; Listowel, 216.
5. Palmer, 263.
6. Stephanie, 259, 256.
7. Judtmann, 25.
8. Richter, 241.
9. Polzer-Hoditz, 434–35.
10. Markus, 63–64; Brook-Shepherd, 320; The Times, December 20, 1983; The Times, January 2, 1989.
11. Listowel, 84, 216; Mahaffy, 182–83; Judtmann, 25–29; Lónyay, 159.
12. Judtmann, 55–56; Mitis, 185; Lónyay, 149.
13. Larisch, My Past, 277–82.
14. Ibid., 323, 377.
15. Judtmann, 27. Rudolf’s first biographer, Baron Oskar von Mitis, questioned whether the crown prince would actually have handed a box supposedly containing compromising papers to Larisch, given her reputation for blackmail, but by this time she was so deeply enmeshed in his liaison with Mary that he might not have had another viable option. See Mitis, 182.
16. Larisch, My Past, 366.
17. Cassels, Clash, 87, 135–38.
18. Mitis, 81; Louisa of Tuscany, 231; de Weindel, 138–39; de Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs, 2:82–83; Listowel, 179; Cassels, Clash, 138.
19. Judtmann, 27; Lónyay, 159; Listowel, 216.
20. Polzer-Hoditz, in Neues Wiener Tagblatt, June 22, 1935, Judtmann, 273; Neues Wiener Journal, December 8, 1928.
21. Polzer-Hoditz, 434.
22. Judtmann, 271, 273.
23. Larisch, My Past, 366–69.
24. Ibid., 317.
25. Listowel, 252; Polzer-Hoditz, 429–31; de Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs, 2:60, 2:82–83; Louisa of Tuscany, 230–33.
26. Die Stunde, September 28, 1923.
27. Der Standard, January 2, 1993.
28. Judtmann, 56; Mitis, 186.
29. Listowel, 3, 230.
30. Judtmann, 28–29.
31. Marek, 267.
32. Listowel, 1.
33. Ibid., 236–39.
34. Ibid., 238, 247.
35. Ibid., 218.
36. Szeps, My Life and History, 100.
37. Mitis, 145; Bismarck, 2:280.
38. Salvendy, 148; Wolfson, 98.
39. New York Times, February 2, 1889.
40. Graves, 221.
41. Grant, 17–19, 31.
42. Ibid., 184.
43. Ibid., 75.
44. Ibid., 185.
45. Ibid., 261, 280–82.
46. Ibid., 264–65.
47. Ibid., 270–74.
48. Wolfson, 91.
49. Ibid., 130.
50. Grant, 194–95, 227.
51. Judtmann, 188.
52. Wolfson, 65.
53. Neue Kronen Zeitung, March 11, 1983.
54. Ibid., November 20, 1983; The Times, December 20, 1983.
55. Szeps, My Life and History, 37–38.
56. Listowel, 159; Szeps, My Life and History, 110–11; Watson, 91.
57. Feigl, 7–65; Neue Kronen Zeitung, March 11, 1983.
58. Markus, 63.
59. Neue Kronen Zeitung, March 11, 1983.
60. Brook-Shepherd, 321.
61. The Times, January 2, 1989; Brook-Shepherd, 321; Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 142.
62. Brook-Shepherd, 321.