The Road to Mayerling: The Life and Death of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria

[flcty]

Has anyone read the book before? Is it good, acurate (recount of Rudolph's life)? I'm thinking of ordering it, so would it be worth spending a heap of money on the book?

[princess olga]

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[Jo of Palatine]

Originally Posted by flctylu

Has anyone read the book before? Is it good, acurate (recount of Rudolph's life)? I'm thinking of ordering it, so would it be worth spending a heap of money on the book?

Hm, I guess a biography of Crown Prince Rudolph is a very, very difficult thing as it is still unclear whether he was mentally ill or not. From his mother's and both his grand-mother's side he had inherited Wittelsbach-blood - in the same generation two kings of Bavaria were mentally ill and both were Rudolph's direct line cousins (their father was the brother of archduchess Sophie (his paternal grandmother) and duchess Ludovika (his maternal grand-mother) while his paternal grand-father and his paternal grand-uncle from the Habsburg-side of the family were considered unfit to rule due to mental problems... So, the problem potential was there. But OTOH the Crown Prince had ideas about political reforms which led to very, very powerful enemies who could easily create a scenario of suicide due to mental problems...

Thus, I would read any book on the topic with lots of grains of salt....