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The heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Crown Prince Rudolph, was a deeply troubled man—off his face on morphine and champagne, riddled with gonorrhea, and the kind of man who keeps a skull as a paperweight—who entered into a murder-suicide pact with his teenage mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at the Mayerling hunting lodge.

Dominic introduces the central figures of the scandal: Crown Prince Rudolph as a morphine-addicted, gonorrhea-ridden heir who keeps a skull as a paperweight, and his teenage mistress Mary Vetsera, a fashion-obsessed party girl whose infatuation leads her to self-destruction. ✦ AI generated

Dominic · The Rest Is History · 2026-07-23 · original ↗

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Our killer is the 30-year-old heir to the Austrohungarian throne. He's crown prince Rudolph, an idealistic haggarded man. He's off his face on morphine and champagne. He is riddled with gonorrhea. And he is the kind of man who keeps a skull as a paperwe. I mean, he's another of the many people in history who look like our producer Callum. ... There's Crown Prince Rudolph and then there is his accomplice and victim. And this is his teenage mistress, Baroness Mary Vetzer, who is a fashionista. She's a party girl. She's a social climber. And she has become infatuated with him to the point of self-destruction.

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