Baroness Mary Vetsera
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Baroness Marie Alexandrine "Mary" von Vetsera was an Austrian noblewoman and the mistress of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria. Vetsera and the crown prince were found dead at his hunting lodge in Mayer
Mary Vetsera in 1888
The last photograph of Mary (on the right), wearing the dress in which she was buried. On the left is Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich, a cousin of the crown prince who delivered some letters and messages between her and the crown prince.
Mary Vetsera's grave in Heiligenkreuz
Vetsera's farewell letter to her mother
Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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Elisabeth, nicknamed Sisi, was Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary from her marriage to Franz Joseph I on 24 April 1854 until her assassination in 1898.
Baroness Mary Vetsera
…he was 30. Upon finding out, her family reacted negatively: her sister Hanna called her foolish, and her mother Helene (who had known Rudolf's mother Empress Elisabeth from years before at horse races in Hungary, Bohemia and England) was enraged, accusing her of compromising herself and ruining the lives of all of her…
Formal portrait, 1867
Equestrian portrait of Elisabeth at Possenhofen Castle, age 15 (1853)
![The young Elisabeth shortly after becoming Austrian Empress, by Amanda Bergstedt [sv] (1855)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Amanda_Bergstedt_001.jpg/500px-Amanda_Bergstedt_001.jpg)
The young Elisabeth shortly after becoming Austrian Empress, by Amanda Bergstedt [sv] (1855)
Portrait of Empress Elisabeth, 1857 aged 19