It was the mother of royal scandalabras, as Walt Winchell might have said, and remains one of the greatest historical conundrums of all time. I refer to what became known as the Mayerling Affair: the sensational apparent murder-suicide of Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, son and heir of Emperor Franz Josef and the tragic Empress
Lawyers representing Archduke Franz Ferdinand s great-granddaughter Marie-Therese Hohenberg Bailey, 49, told Mr Justice Peel that Anthony Bailey, 52, was in contempt.