Alma Vetsera Hayne (1890–1919) was a New York City socialite who passed herself off as the daughter of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria and Baroness Mary Vetsera and called herself Princess Vetsera of Austria. She claimed her son, Charles Rudolph Spurway Hayne (1899-1983), was heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne.
Her first husband was George Osborne Hayne (1875-1950). She married Donald Shields Andrews (1894-1930) on April 24, 1915. [1] [2] [3] She married Sebastian Cedric Samuel Steane in London on 30 August 1919. She took her own life with poison on 12 November 1919 after attending the second victory ball for the end of World War I. [4]
Shields Andrews, an inorganic chemist, would take his own life with poison in 1930 in Fair Haven, New Jersey. He had been working on a process to make synthetic gemstones. [4]
Alma Mahler-Werfel was an Austrian composer, author, editor, and socialite. Musically active from her early years, she was the composer of nearly fifty songs for voice and piano, and works in other genres as well. 17 songs are known to have survived. At 15, she was mentored by Max Burckhard.
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria was the only son and third child of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria and Duchess Elisabeth of Bavaria (Sisi). He was heir apparent to the imperial throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire from birth. In 1889, he died in a suicide pact with his mistress Mary Vetsera at the Mayerling hunting lodge. The ensuing scandal made international headlines.
Baroness Marie Alexandrine "Mary" von Vetsera was an Austrian noblewoman and the mistress of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria. Vetsera and the crown prince were found dead at his hunting lodge in Mayerling on 30 January 1889, following an apparent murder-suicide, which is known as the Mayerling incident.
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Countess Marie Louise Larisch von Moennich was a niece and lady-in-waiting of Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She was implicated in the Mayerling Incident which resulted in the death of her married cousin Crown Prince Rudolf and his mistress Baroness Mary Vetsera, who was also her friend. She published several books with a ghostwriter about the Imperial household.
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The Mayerling incident is the series of events surrounding the apparent murder–suicide pact of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, and his lover, baroness Mary Vetsera. They were found dead on 30 January 1889 in an imperial hunting lodge in Mayerling. Rudolf, who was married to Princess Stéphanie of Belgium, was the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph and Empress Elisabeth, and was heir apparent to the throne of Austria-Hungary.
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He married Alma V. Hayne at Mamaroneek, N. Y., on April 24, against the wishes of his parents ...
Through the medium of a news agency Mrs. Donald Shields Andrews, formerly the wife of George Osborn Hayne, who said she was a daughter of Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary, notified the newspapers last evening that she was sailing this Wednesday on the New Amsterdam for "the British battle front" to nurse soldiers.
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