Thursday, October 23, 2008

"infelicity" in Rudolf's household

October 23, 1888

Vienna is rife with rumors that Crown Princess Stephanie will seek a divorce from her husband, Crown Prince Rudolf, and will return to Belgium. Her parents, King Leopold II and Queen Marie-Henriette and her eldest sister, Princess Philipp of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha are "unremitting in their efforts to avert this catastrophe."
Stephanie's father-in-law, Emperor Franz Joseph, "is worried enough about public affairs without having private life made a burden to him through the eccentricities and extravagances of his wife and the constant bickering of his son and daughter-in-law."

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