The discovery of the bodies at Mayerling, the cover-up by Emperor Franz Joseph, and the secret burial of Mary Vetsera (whose body was propped up and walked out of the lodge 'Weekend at Bernie's' style) constitute one of the most extraordinary cover-ups in royal history — her name was effectively erased from all print in Austria-Hungary.

(02:01:18) and he says where is my son and Dr. Vidhoffer said well we brought the body back to the palace as you ordered. We've dressed him in a uniform. and we abandaged his head and we put him in bed and French Joseph went to his son's bedroom and he stood by his son's body for 15 minutes in silence kind of vigil for a brother officer as per the army

(02:01:37) regulations always the way with him and then he said to his aids we have two priorities now number one my son must have a Catholic burial Hapsburgs have Catholic burials Catholic funerals even though he is both a murderer and a suicide. And then secondly, he said, "All mention of this girl must be suppressed. Her presence at the scene, her body, even her name must be deleted from the public

(02:02:08) record." Now, what made this difficult is that the Hapsburgs themselves have told the Vetera family what happened to Mary. CeCe herself broke the news to Mary's mother. Now at the time the imperial staff said to Mary's mother, Baroness Elen Vetera, they said, "You have to get out of Vienna. You know the press will beounding you. There will be crowds for your blood. People will blame your daughter for this and you have to

(02:02:33) get out." And she got on a train to Italy. But then she changed her mind halfway and she came back to the city and she found that the city police had cordoned off her townhouse, her mansion, because there were crowds outside. She was in a terrible state. She wanted to go into the house and eventually the Austrian prime minister, Count Tarth, turned up. He was very, I think we