Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This picture released on July 31, 2015 by the Austrian National Library shows the farewell letter of Baroness Mary Vetsera to her ...

Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs, Greg King and Penny Wilson, St Martin’s Press, 273 pages At approximately ten past six on the snowy morning of January 30, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A tremendous ballet. A tremendous ensemble. Mayerling, Kenneth MacMillan’s study of the deaths of Archduke Rudolf and ...

VIENNA: “Please forgive me for what I’ve done, I could not resist love” — these are the final dramatic words of Baroness Mary Vetsera, whose farewell letters were discovered in a bank vault in Vienna ...

All for Love by Dan Jacobson (Penguin, £7.99) If the suicide pact between Crown Prince Rudolf and Mary Vetsera can be seen as a tragic, even romantic, symbol of the twilight of the Hapsburg empire, ...

Edward Watson finds sympathy for the doomed prince while Sarah Lamb gives one of the performances of her career in MacMillan’s unsparingly brutal ballet Mayerling is surely the richest, if not the ...