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  1.     Society Recollections, 176; Radziwill, Austrian Court, 120.

  2.      Larisch, My Past, 268.

  3.      Margutti, 94; de Weindel, 80–81; Ryan, 33; Martyrdom of an Empress, 211; Louise of Belgium, 103; Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 97.

  4.      Kürenberg, 94.

  5.      Margutti, 95–96; Kürenberg, 94–95; de Weindel, 184; Martyrdom of an Empress, 211.

  6.      Van der Kiste, 95.

  7.      Stephanie, 210.

  8.      Listowel, 166.

  9.      Waddington, 111.

  10.    Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 160n62.

  11.    Judtmann, 31; Markus, 23; Listowel, 190–91; Markus and Unterreiner, 16.

  12.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 254.

  13.   http://levantineheritage.com/testi47.htm.

  14.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 254.

  15.   Der Polizeibereicht, 66; Lónyay, 156; Listowel, 192; Monts, 106; Recollections of a Royal Governess, 158; Marek, 269.

  16.    Corti, Empress Elisabeth, 296–97.

  17.    Ibid., 296.

  18.    Hamann, Kronprinz, 109–10; see also Markus, 79; Haslip, Emperor and the Actress, 95; Sulzberger, 163.

  19.    Larisch, My Past, 102–3.

  20.    Larisch, My Past, 213; Markus, 79.

  21.    Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 43.

  22.    Ibid., 62. Helene later converted to Catholicism.

  23.    Judtmann, 30; de Weindel, 181; Listowel, 188–89; Markus, 23.

  24.    Listowel, 189; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 50.

  25.    Listowel, 189; Judtmann, 30.

  26.    Paget, Scenes and Memories, 220.

  27.    Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 62n306.

  28.    Ibid., 52.

  29.   Le Journal, February 2, 1939.

  30.    Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 61.

  31.    Judtmann, 77–78; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 40. The house, which later became the Salm Palace, was torn down in 1916. See Judtmann, 30.

  32.    Motley, 2:124.

  33.    Listowel, 192.

  34.    Cassels, Clash, 58.

  35.    Radziwill, Austrian Court, 134.

  36.    Larisch, My Past, 215–16.

  37.    Markus and Unterreiner, 16.

  38.    Listowel, 192.

  39.   Der Polizeibericht, 66; Lónyay, 156; Listowel, 192; Monts, 106; Recollections of a Royal Governess, 158; Marek, 269.

  40.    See Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 451–52.

  41.    Markus, 24; Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 55–56.

  42.    Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 40.

  43.    Ibid., 52.

  44.    Marek, 296; Judtmann, 29.

  45.    Radziwill, Austrian Court, 120.

  46.   Berliner Börsencourier, February 24, 1889.

  47.    Larisch, My Past, 219–20.

  48.    Paget, Embassies, 2:467.

  49.    Ibid.; Vivian, 56; Fugger, 192.

  50.    Fugger, 205.

  51.    Larisch, My Past, 234–35.

  52.    Fugger, 205.

  53.    Larisch, My Past, 241.

  54.    Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 170.

  55.    Quoted in Freisler, 18.

  56.    Paget, Embassies, 2:470; Margutti, 100.

  57.    Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 179; Berliner Börsencourier, February 24, 1889.

  58.    Larisch, My Past, 222; cited in Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 357n1941.

  59.    Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 356n1983.

  60.    Quoted in ibid., 356.

  61.    Ibid., 50, 52.

  62.    Nemec and Nemec-Jirak, 174.

  63.    Louise of Belgium, 103.

  64.    Larisch, My Past, 210–20; Berliner Börsencourier, February 24, 1889.

  65.    Larisch, My Past, 221–22.

  66.    Radziwill, Austrian Court, 120.

  67.    Larisch, My Past, 218.

  68.    Lansdale, 15; Cantacuzène, 64; Marek, 9; Morton, Thunder, 30.

  69.    Morton, Nervous, 83.

  70.    Marek, 9; Society Recollections, 221.

  71.    Morton, Nervous, 78.

  72.   Der Polizeibericht, 67.

  73.    Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 150.

  74.    Ibid.; Der Polizeibericht, 19.

  75.    Judtmann, 108, 203; Fugger, 222; Lónyay, 156; Radziwill, Dethroned, 138; cited in Cassels, Clash, 209.

  76.    Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 181; Haslip, Lonely Empress, 387.

  77.    Fugger, 206.

  78.   Society Recollections, 155–56; Levetus, 370–72; Paget, Scenes and Memories, 226.

  79.    Morton, Nervous, 82; Barkeley, 210; Markus, 24; Thiele, Crown Prince Rudolf, 80.

  80.    Markus and Unterreiner, 19.

  81.    Ibid., 18–19; Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 23–24, in Markus and Unterreiner, 242–43.

  82.    Markus, 24.