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1. Markus, 29; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 281.
2. Holler, 364; Harding, 298; Markus, 61–62; Wiener Morgenpost, October 10, 1927; Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 95.
3. Judtmann, 346.
4. Stephanie, 43.
5. Paleologue, 164.
6. Countess Zoë Wassilko-Serecki, Protocol of September 5, 1955, quoted in Judtmann, 342–44.
7. Der Polizeibericht, 62.
8. Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 94–95.
9. Morton, Nervous, 222–23.
10. Judtmann, 151.
11. Der Spiegel 32, March 8, 1960,; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 46.
12. Hollaender, Hantsch and Novotny, 160n62.
13. Martyrdom of an Empress, 206–7; Vivian, 37–40, 56; de Weindel, 195; Recollections of a Royal Governess, 158; Marek, 255; Burg, 173, 226.
14. Louise of Belgium, 111.
15. Louisa of Tuscany, 241–42.
16. Judtmann, 55–56; Mitis, 185; Lónyay, 149.
17. Slatin, Abschrift.
18. Berliner Tagblatt, February 13, 1889; Der Polizeibericht, 21; Martyrdom of an Empress, 212; de Weindel, 185; Redlich, 433; Crankshaw, 299; Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 97; Recollections of a Royal Governess, 159; Ketterl, 75–76; Pöldinger and Wagner, 176; Thiele, Elisabeth, 677.
19. Vivian, 54; Loehr, 173
20. Louise of Belgium, 112.
21. Margutti, 94–95.
22. Szeps, My Life and History, 119.
23. Baron Robert Doblhoff, statement of 1952, in Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 268–70.
24. Lambsdorff, 178, Mitis, 156–57.
25. Reuss, dispatch of February 5, 1889, in Hollaender, Hantsch and Novotny, 141.
26. Margutti, 95.
27. Lambsdorff, 178, Mitis, 156–57.
28. Stephanie, 38.
29. Sophie von Planker-Klaps, in Neues Wiener Journal, January 27, 1929.
30. Margutti, 98.
31. Morton, Nervous, 221.
32. Larisch, My Past, 277–82.
33. Ibid., 257–60.
34. Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 66, in Markus and Unterreiner, 256.
35. Fugger, 206; see also Judtmann, 109; Vivian, 60.
36. Larisch, My Past, 264–65, 287–88.
37. Corti and Sokol, 118.
38. Larisch, My Past, 295.
39. Szeps, My Life and History, 120.
40. Der Polizeibericht, 47.
41. Information from Dr. Stefanie Platt to authors.