CHAPTER 7

  1.      Morton, Nervous, 185–91.

  2.      Ibid., 184.

  3.      Ibid., 213.

  4.      Rudolf to Stephanie, letter of December 31, 1888, in Stephanie, 242.

  5.      Rudolf to Szeps, letter of December 27, 1888, in Szeps, Politische Briefe, 168.

  6.      Szeps, My Life and History, 117; Mitis, 271–73.

  7.      Morton, Nervous, 214.

  8.      Stephanie, 245.

  9.      Morton, Nervous, 221; Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 275.

  10.    Stephanie, 243.

  11.    Louise of Belgium, 109.

  12.   Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 56–57, in Markus and Unterreiner, 253; Barkeley, 218; Markus, 29.

  13.    Mary Vetsera to Hermine Tobias, letter of January 14, 1889, in Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 54, in Markus and Unterreiner, 252.

  14.    Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 195; Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 57–58, in Markus and Unterreiner, 253; Markus, 29; Hoyos Addendum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 282.

  15.    Larisch, My Past, 227.

  16.   Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 28, in Markus and Unterreiner, 244.

  17.    Ibid., 38, in Markus and Unterreiner, 247.

  18.    Ibid., 42, in Markus and Unterreiner, 248.

  19.    Ibid., 59–61, in Markus and Unterreiner, 254–55.

  20.    Ibid., 4–5, in Markus and Unterreiner, 237; Baltazzi-Scharschmid and Swistun, 195.

  21.    Larisch, My Past, 256, 286–88; Larisch conflates and jumbles this event in her memoirs as two separate meetings, but it seems clear that this happened on January 26.

  22.   Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 11–13, in Markus and Unterreiner, 239.

  23.    Paget, Embassies, 465.

  24.    Morton, Nervous, 222–23.

  25.    Stephanie, 35; Markus, 69; Hollaender, in Hantsch and Novotny, 151; Lambsdorff, 178, Mitis, 156–57.

  26.    Margutti, 95.

  27.    Sophie von Planker-Klaps, in Neues Wiener Journal, January 27, 1920.

  28.    Rudolf Püchel, in Reichspost, January 31, 1926.

  29.    Hoyos Memorandum, HHS, Box 21; also in Mitis, 275.

  30.    Larisch, My Past, 277–82.

  31.   Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 63, in Markus and Unterreiner, 255.

  32.    Ibid., 25, in Markus and Unterreiner, 240.

  33.    Judtmann, 43–44. In her memoirs Louise mistakenly placed this encounter on the afternoon of January 29, by which time Rudolf had already arrived at Mayerling.

  34.    Louise of Belgium, 110.

  35.    In Corti and Sokol, 117–18.

  36.    Larisch, My Past, 267–70.

  37.   Le Figaro, February 3, 1889; Le Matin, February 5, 1889; Le Temps, February 7, 1889.

  38.    See Lónyay, 161; Monts, 104–5; Neues Wiener Journal, June 2, 1923; Judtmann, 47, for both this story and for a refutation.

  39.    Szeps, My Life and History, 120.

  40.   Der Polizeibereicht, 45–47.