A cruel, abusive man, he drove his young child to a nervous breakdown. The only time his mother stepped up was when she demanded that Rudolf’s governor, appointed by Franz Joseph, be replaced.
His mother, Empress Elisabeth, escaped her vicious, controlling mother-in-law by ignoring her only son. His father, Emperor Franz Joseph, treated him like a military cadet with no power or influence. King and Wilson (co-authors: Lusitania : Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age, 2015, etc.) first establish the miserable life of Rudolf. A story of love denied and lovers united forever in death? Maybe not. The conventional story holds that the couple was at Mayerling, Rudolf’s hunting lodge, where he shot her, then sat with her body for hours before shooting himself. A study of the many mysteries surrounding the death of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria-Hungary and his mistress.
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