CHAPTER 16
1. Haslip, Lonely Empress, 404.
2. Eisenmenger, 31.
3. Lónyay, 2.
4. Mitis, 168.
5. Taylor, Habsburg Monarchy, 47; Haslip, Mexico, 23; Woods, 185.
6. Larisch, My Past, 159, 162–63; Vivian, 117; Radziwill, Austrian Court, 58, 88; Radziwill, Secrets, 111–12, 114–15; de Weindel, 145–46; de Fontenoy, Secret Memoirs, 2:114; Lónyay, 35; Marek, 57.
7. Stephanie, 23.
8. Chapman-Huston, 166–67, 176–77; King, 255; Channon, 111; Tschudi, 145.
9. King, 253–55; Chapman-Huston, 166–67, 176–77; Channon, 111.
10. Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 21, 272; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 3.
11. Mitis, 176.
12. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to the authors.
13. Barkeley, 21–22; Listowel, 25.
14. Barta, 6; Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 18.
15. Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 288.
16. Ibid.; Franzel, 78; Listowel, 62.
17. Haslip, Lonely Empress, 326.
18. Rudolf, notebook entry, December 1873, in HHS, Box 12; also in Mitis, 26–27.
19. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to authors.
20. Ibid.
21. Rudolf to Szeps, letter of August 21, 1888, in Szeps, Politische Briefe, 163–64.
22. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to authors.
23. Salvendy, 173.
24. Ibid., 91.
25. Stephanie, 264.
26. Ibid., 256.
27. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to authors.
28. Wölfing, 51, 64.
29. Grant, 214.
30. Ibid., 213.
31. Der Polizeibericht, 46.
32. Polzer-Hoditz, 434.
33. Paget, Embassies, 2:475–76.
34. Larisch, My Past, 260.
35. Louise of Belgium, 104.
36. Larisch, My Past, 256–60.
37. Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 171; Morton, Nervous, 81.
38. Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 73–74.
39. Ibid., 91–95.