Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs

Twilight of Empire: The Tragedy at Mayerling and the End of the Habsburgs

On a snowy January morning in 1889, a worried servant hacked open a locked door at the remote hunting lodge deep in the Vienna Woods. Inside, he found two bodies sprawled on an ornate bed, blood oozin…

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