Mayerling (1957)

Mayerling is the name of a notorious Austrian village linked to a romantic tragedy At a royal hunting lodge there in 1889 Crown Prince Rudolfdesperate over his fathers command to put away his teenage mistress the Baroness Marie Vetserashot her to death and killed himself The misfortune may indeed have been a murdersuicide but perhaps it was a political assassination or even the result of a lunatic family vendetta scholarship is still catching up with the facts