MIZZI KASPER - THE SENSIBLE ONE - MISTRESS OF CROWN PRINCE RUDOLF and THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE

MIZZI KASPER - Please note that I've seen her name spelled Kaspar and Casper as well. Some say she had Jewish heritage.  Someone else pointed out to me that perhaps she was Armenian due to the common Armenian surname Kasperian - or even Russian.  Mizzi was probably a nickname. Information on Mizzi and her relationship with the Crown Prince Rudolf here comes from the book The Red Prince: The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke by Timothy Snyder, which was published in 2008.  The book is focused on Wilhelm Von Habsburg who was said to be homosexual. It's available on Google Books.

THE RED PRINCE : The Secret Lives of a Habsburg Archduke

Notes from Page 36:  Crown Prince Rudolf's childhood education as ordered by his father that he was to replace someday as the King of Austria-Hungary was brutal.  He was not allowed to state his opinions.  His father had come into power at eighteen in 1888 but at thirty Crown Prince Rudolf was still frustrated and waiting.* 

He wanted to annul his marriage with Princess Stephanie of Belgium.  (They had one child, a daughter, and so he had no heir.) The Pope sent back his request - to his father. The Crown Prince had given his wife a venereal disease. He was said to use alcohol, morphine, and women.  The venereal disease was said to be responsible for his insanity.

Of his many mistresses, there was MARY VESTERA, who was not his favorite. Probably the love of his life was MIZZI KASPER.  Rudolf had given Mizzi a house in Vienna where she lived and where a mutual friend ran a high class bordello.

Mizzi laughed at Rudolf when he spoke of his desire to perform a double suicide and reported this to the police in hopes of stopping him.  "Mary Vetsera, on the other hand, was a femme fatale in the truest sense."

After the death of Crown Prince Rudolf in 1889, his father decided that his son Archduke Karl Ludwig, who he had sired by the second of his three wives, was the best choice.  He had tuberculosis.  He married his first cousin, Maria Theresa. (She became Queen Maria Theresa.)

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