SECRET LETTERS THAT GAVE RISE TO THE SUICIDE EXPLANATION OF MARY VETSERA

Were letters written by Mary Vetsera found in a forgotten bank security box? According to an article in The Journal ie, August 2, 2015, 126 year old letters written by the 17 year old Baroness were found including one to her mother, a suicide note, asking forgiveness.

"Please forgive me for what I've done, I could not resist love."

The Austrian National Library clearly accepted that these letters are authentic. They day the letters had actually been in their archives since 1926. The find contained photos of her family.

Mary wrote that she wanted to be buried next to the 30 year old Prince as if that was his wish.

I personally think that there may have been various schemes involved to change the story, including ones that the young Baroness' family cooperated with. A shocking murder-suicide of aristocratic and royal persons that was world news had to be embarrassing as well as deeply upsetting. 

One of the reasons I think this way is that Mary was never buried next to Prince Rudolf. She was buried and buried again.

According to one of the YouTube videos I watched while researching for this month's posts reported that Mary not only buried and reburied and reburied again but was targeted by grave robbers.

Mary Vetsera Often Buried But Never Dead by ferryfilmstudio, states this:

In 1889, upon the bloody scene's discovery, Mary was taken away from the Meyering hunting castle and given a crude burial in a wooden box. That same year her family built her a crypt at the Heiligenkteuz cemetery with a stained glass image of her praying. In 1945 at the end of WWII, Russian soldiers broke in and the vandalizing continued. In 1959 she was put into a new tin coffin. There was another break in 32 years later. The tomb was raided in 1991. In 1992 again. In 1993 another newer coffin was used and the grave secured by filling it in with earth. Her old tin coffin was given to be put on display elsewhere. 

Such morbid curiosity!