Rudolf Of Austria - Did Sissi's Son Commit Suicide ? - Rudolf Franz Charles Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine was born in Laxenburg on 21 August 1858 and died in Mayerling on 30 January 1889. He was a member of the imperial and royal house of Austria-Hungary.
The son of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Elisabeth in Bavaria, also known as Sissi, he married Princess Stephanie of Belgium, the daughter of Leopold II and Mary-Henriette of Habsburg-Lorraine, on 10 May 1881.
By birth Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he died at the age of 30 under mysterious circumstances at the side of his mistress Mary Vetsera in the hunting lodge of Mayerling.
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