CHAPTER 2

  1.      Haslip, Mexico, 112.

  2.      Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 8.

  3.      Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 77.

  4.      Ibid.; Listowel, 8; Franzel, 75; Mitis, 15; Salvendy, 8.

  5.      Judtmann, 14; Marek, 256; Salvendy, 39.

  6.      Unterreiner, Emperor Franz Joseph, 52.

  7.      Marie Valerie, diary entry of May 29, 1884, cited in Salvendy, 129; Barkeley, 32; Ernst, 186; Lónyay, 25.

  8.      Lónyay, 20.

  9.      Haslip, Lonely Empress, 16.

  10.    Listowel, 18.

  11.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 102; cited in Salvendy, 15.

  12.    Unterreiner, Crown Prince Rudolf, 2.

  13.    Rudolf to Latour von Thurmberg, letter of December 2, 1881, in HHS, Box 16; also in Barkeley, 82.

  14.    Mitis, 23; Listowel, 17, 26; Barkeley, 11; Salvendy, 13, 151; Lónyay, 23.

  15.    Salvendy, 11.

  16.    Bibl, 183.

  17.    Mitis, 16, 43; Franzel, 76.

  18.    Lónyay, 11–12.

  19.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 12; Franzel, 25.

  20.    Lónyay, 12.

  21.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 110; Lónyay, 12.

  22.    Marek, 166; Salvendy, 14–15.

  23.    Barkeley, 12; Listowel, 20–21.

  24.    Empress Elisabeth to Franz Josef, letter of August 24, 1865, cited in Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 123–24.

  25.    Haslip, Lonely Empress, 273–74.

  26.    Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 123; Margutti, 88; Mitis, 16; Listowel, 23; Barkeley, 13.

  27.    Mitis, 16.

  28.    Cited in Barkeley, 35.

  29.    Listowel, 29–30; Barkeley, 10; Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 125; Mitis, 20; Lónyay, 18; Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 12.

  30.    Mitis, 128–29.

  31.    Ibid., 22.

  32.    Ibid.

  33.    Latour von Thurmberg report, May 1868, quoted in Lónyay, 50; Latour von Thurmberg report, December 15, 1868, quoted in ibid., 49.

  34.    Rudolf, diary entry of December 1872, cited in Barkeley, 25.

  35.    Rudolf to Latour von Thurmberg, 1881, cited in ibid., 74.

  36.    Rudolf to King Ludwig II of Bavaria, letter of March 9, 1878, quoted in Mitis, 198–99.

  37.    Rudolf, notebook entry, December 1873, in HHS, Box 12; also in Mitis, 26–27.

  38.    Ibid.

  39.    Rudolf, last will, April 15, 1879, quoted in Mitis, 200–201.

  40.    Crankshaw, 294.

  41.    Margutti, 87.

  42.    Crankshaw, 293; Morton, Nervous, 174; Franzel, 29.

  43.    Jászi, 120; Ronay, 58.

  44.    Rudolf, Notes on Sport, 2, 28.

  45.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 211–12; Listowel, 35.

  46.    Ronay, 56–57.

  47.    Margutti, 87.

  48.    Lónyay, 101.

  49.    Cone, 147.

  50.    de Weindel, 104.

  51.    Margutti, 105–6; Mitis, 33; Listowel, 51; Bibl, 187.

  52.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 281.

  53.    Mitis, 38

  54.    Rudolf to King Ludwig II of Bavaria, letter of January 1878, quoted in Mitis, 198–99.

  55.    Cited in Barkeley, 40–41.

  56.    Cornwallis-West, 106; Barkeley, 44.

  57.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 286; Haslip, Lonely Empress, 303–4.

  58.    Mitis, 49; Listowel, 62–63; Lónyay, 56; Franzel, 78.

  59.    Listowel, 64; Lónyay, 57–58; Mitis, 61–63.

  60.    Mitis, 63.

  61.    Margutti, 91.

  62.    Ibid., 82–83.

  63.    Radziwill, Austrian Court, 121–22; Grant, 36; Louise of Belgium, 106.

  64.    Stephanie, 23; Radziwill, My Recollections, 143.

  65.    Louise of Belgium, 106.

  66.    Grant, 36; Wölfing, 50.

  67.    Radziwill, Austrian Court, 122,

  68.    Marie Festetics, diary entry of June 9, 1881, in Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 307.

  69.    Quoted in Mitis, 31–32.

  70.    Wölfing, 49.

  71.    Larisch, My Past, 89, 91, 46.

  72.    Cited, Hamann, Reluctant Empress, 323.

  73.    Marie Valerie, diary entry of December 9, 1887, quoted in Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 405.

  74.    Marie Valerie, diary entry of June 20, 1885, cited in Salvendy, 128.

  75.    Haslip, Lonely Empress, 293.