PROLOGUE
1. Cantacuzène, 64.
2. Lansdale, 146; Hamilton, 65.
3. Hamilton, 50.
4. Cited in Crankshaw, 31.
5. Marek, 22.
6. Cone, 119.
7. Marek, 21; Morton, Thunder, 29; Radziwill, Austrian Court, 131.
8. Cantacuzène, 74.
9. Paget, Scenes and Memories, 227.
10. Friedrich, Der Kriminalfall Mayerling, 140n850.
11. Louise of Belgium, 103.
12. Stephanie, 240–41.
13. Larisch, My Past, 147; Louise of Belgium, 104; Judtmann, 44; Bibl, 78–79.
14. Cantacuzène, 142–43.
15. Ibid., 79.
16. Bibl, 78; Paget, Embassies, 2:465.
17. Louise of Belgium, 103.
18. Dr. Konrad Ritter von Zdekauer, in Neues Wiener Journal, June 2, 1923.
19. Larisch, My Past, 268, 270; Der Vetsera Denkschrift, 64, in Markus and Unterreiner, 255.
20. Louise of Belgium, 102–3.
21. Larisch, My Past, 271; Judtmann, 47.
22. Hoyos Memorandum, in Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Vienna (hereafter HHS), Box 21; also in Mitis, 342.
23. Larisch, My Past, 268.
24. Louise of Belgium, 104.
25. Dr. Konrad Ritter von Zdekauer, in Neues Wiener Journal, June 2, 1923; Le Matin, February 5, 1889.
26. Cited in Listowel, 214.
27. Larisch, My Past, 271; Louise of Belgium, 104.
28. Der Polizeibericht, 11. This seems to have happened so quickly that it escaped the attention of most of those present. On this point see Judtmann, 47. In her diary Stephanie merely recorded that she attended the event but added no details; however, Stephanie was unlikely to have written of her public humiliation. See Stephanie, 243, and Stephanie’s diary for January 27, 1889, in Hamann, Der Weg nach Mayerling, 133.