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Historian - Mary Vetsera's biographer. Researching Mayerling, the Baltazzi-Verseras, Crown Prince Rudolf, Empress Zita, the Habsburgs & photography. 👑🇻🇦

Vienna, Austria

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1 year

I did it. Filmed my interview for the Mayerling episode of Secrets d’Histoire. Exhausted. Happy. Hoping I did Mary and Rudolf justice. Professional photos to follow, but here’s a phone one for now! Thanks for keeping me in your prayers and sending your messages of support.

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3 years

Technically speaking, this IS a photo of me and the Duchess of Cambridge...

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23 days

Latin Mass in Paris today

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3 years

Just a normal day in St A, seeing the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and having William say hello to me!

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5 months

My dear patroness, St Thérèse of Lisieux, was born on this day in 1873 ♥️🌹

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5 months

I had the privilege of attending Latin Mass in Budapest the last two days… so incredibly beautiful.

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5 months

Dentist hallways in Vienna be like…

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6 months

Happy Christmas from the ICKSP Latin Mass in Preston!

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2 years

Emperor Franz Joseph was born on this day in 1830. There aren’t a lot of photos of him in ‘normal’ clothes… so here is one! (Photo from ÖNB)

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7 months

Emperor Franz Joseph died on this day in 1916. Here is one of the few photos of him not wearing uniform! Taken by Archduchess Marie Therese. 📸: ÖNB

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8 months

Unexpected Kaiser Karl

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1 year

Karl, last emperor of Austria and king of Hungary died on this day in 1922. His last words to his wife Zita were “I love you so much”.

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2 years

The most heartbreaking photo of Zita I have seen. Shortly after Karl’s death. (From the ÖNB Bildarchiv)

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9 months

Current mood: Stefan Zweig in the Kriegsarchiv

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2 months

Emperor Karl died on this day in 1922. Empress Zita's funeral took place on the anniversary of her husband's death in 1989. 📸: ÖNB

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Karl and Zita were crowned in Budapest on this day in 1916. (📸: Belvedere)

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Empress Zita, 1918 📸: ÖNB

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7 months

@EduardHabsburg No escape during my walk home from work in Vienna either…

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6 months

Had some pics taken in Venice and I just got them! 🤩

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2 months

Cologne cathedral this afternoon.

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5 months

On this day in 1916…! I am sure a lot of you are familiar with the famous photos taken by Karl and Zita’s court photographer Heinrich Schuhmann, but here are some that didn’t quite make the cut for official use 📸: Belvedere Wien

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1 year

Zita of Bourbon-Parma died on this day in 1989. 📷: ÖNB

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2 years

Very excited that I now have a job in Kulturvermittlung at the Mozart apartment in Vienna! I’m really passionate about sharing research with the wider public, so this is perfect! But mostly, I am looking forward to the Mozartkugeln making workshop I get to do…

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1 year

April 1, 1989: Empress Zita’s funeral. She was buried on the anniversary of the death of her husband Karl (April 1, 1922), who she loved so much.

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10 months

I am SO beyond happy to say that I got the job! I am now the project editor for “Moriz Nähr - Photographer for Habsburg, Klimt and Wittgenstein” at the Klimt Foundation! Can’t wait to get to work and continue my research on Vienna 1900, Habsburgs and history of photography!

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5 months

My friend spotted this very odd artwork in Budapest… the Kaiserschmarrn in the corner really does it for me… 🫠

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5 months

Last night’s @Vienna_Phil ball was probably the most beautiful night of my entire life… would rather be back there and not in the office!

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1 year

A dream came true and it was magical ✨🎻

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3 months

One happy historian of Mayerling at the Mayerling ballet in Budapest

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2 years

Not a bad dinner view!

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1 year

don’t laugh don’t laugh don’t laugh

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1 year

Vienna this afternoon

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7 months

The spirits of Empress Elisabeth ('Sisi') and Crown Prince Rudolf visiting Emperor Franz Joseph in the Kapuzinergruft. From Wiener Bilder, Illustriertes Sonntagsblatt 19 September 1898.

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1 year

Apparently I have the third most beautiful mask in Vienna?! Didn’t find Rudolf’s ghost to dance with though

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9 months

First visited Vienna in 2015, moved here in 2017… still walk around like a lovesick puppy. Wien, Wien, nur Du allein…

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5 months

Happy birthday, @EduardHabsburg ! I was born a day too late to share a birthday…

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1 year

Walk through 🇦🇹 Vienna and you will at some point meet a) a Habsburg and/or b) the wonderful @lucy_coatman , very competent in Habsburg matters. Try it our!

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2 months

Mass today felt very special… yesterday was the ten year anniversary of my baptism!

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1 year

I had two intense nightmares that I overslept and missed it… but… I’m here!!! I already cried!!! AHHHHHHHHFNDBDBDNNDDNND

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1 year

Greetings from Innsbruck!

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2 years

Thank you so much @scottishballet for interviewing me for your programme for this incredible production of “The Scandal at Mayerling”! It was an honour!

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2 years

Good evening from the Kaiserball!

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3 months

Empress Zita died on this day in 1989. 📸: 1917, ÖNB

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1 year

Those in my Twitter circle know, but very excited to say that I am going to be on the Mayerling episode of Secrets d'Histoire and we are filming in Vienna at the end of this month! I always dreamed of being a historian interviewed for a tv show, and now that dream comes true! 🥰

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1 year

On this day in 1854, Franz Joseph married Elisabeth (‘Sisi’) in the Augustinerkirche, Vienna. You can see the train of her wedding dress in the Wagenburg, Vienna. (📸 my own)

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1 year

Chanelling my inner Blair Waldorf for my 28th birthday 🤪

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4 months

One last ball in the Hofburg Palace before Lent begins

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Empress Zita in Dresden, 1918. 📸: ÖNB

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2 years

Happy to find I’ve been elected a member of @RoyalHistSoc !

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2 months

Keeping watch at the tomb.

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3 years

@Brink_Thinker I was lucky enough to know my great grandad for 25 years! We really miss him. When I was little, I 100% believed that he was Father Christmas, and told all of my friends at school.

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4 months

Just another unimpressive, totally boring Viennese cafe…

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5 months

Ball of the Vienna Philharmonic

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1 year

Elisabeth, later Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary, was born in Munich on this day in 1837. She was born with a tooth, seen as a lucky sign. 🎄

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1 year

My favourite writer, the incomparable Stefan Zweig took his life on this day in 1942. “Ich grüsse alle meine Freunde! Mögen sie die Morgenröte noch sehen nach der langen Nacht! Ich, allzu Ungeduldiger, gehe ihnen voraus." 💔

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27 days

Wien, Wien, nur Du allein

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5 months

Mary Vetsera and Crown Prince Rudolf’s journey to Mayerling. 🧵 Over the next few days, I shall update this thread with what happened in the lead-up to the Mayerling incident - where the pair were found dead on the 30th January, 1889.

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5 months

Mary Vetsera and her biographer - who is who?

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6 months

Safely back home in my beloved Vienna… and the view on the way was lovely!

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2 years

I moved to Vienna five years ago today! Feels like I’ve lived in Austria all my life. Best decision I ever made!

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9 months

Only in Vienna would you get a discount coupon for cemetery flowers with your public transport year card. Der Tod, das muss ein Wiener sein…

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2 years

Emperor Karl was beatified by Pope John Paul II on this day in 2004. (Photo: Heinrich Schuhmann, ÖNB)

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3 years

Very happy to say I’ve been accepted into St Andrews for a PhD in Modern History, studying Empress Zita of Austria-Hungary. Now to try and secure funding, which is probably going to be more complicated than getting accepted was!

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4 months

I first visited Vienna in 2015, moved here in 2017, and I STILL get overwhelmed by how much I love this city…

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2 years

In my happy place ❤️

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Karl and Zita’s children in front of the crib in the exiled imperial family’s residence, Christmas 1926. (📸: ÖNB)

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What is believed to be the last photo of Crown Prince Rudolf. 📸: ÖNB

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1 year

We have snow again in Vienna!

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11 months

Viennese summers are too hot, so I got half of my hair cut off 😬

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6 years

Looking forward to flying from Austria to NYC and seeing @AnastasiaBway soon... so naturally I had to start drawing @ChristyAltomare

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2 years

Very important final hot chocolate stop!!!

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3 months

Congratulations to Louis Scrivener for his amazing debut as Crown Prince Rudolf in the Mayerling ballet!

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7 months

Okay, Vienna, you’re cute.

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1 year

Not a bad place to spend the next two evenings!

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25 days

He’s there… the Phantom of the Opera…!

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1 year

Friends, please keep me in your prayers for tomorrow - I’m filming for the Mayerling episode of Secrets d’Histoire! I’ve done many interviews before, but this is my first on tv (and it’s such a huge show!). Pray that I will sleep well tonight, and that the right answers will

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2 years

Born on this day in 1912: Otto von Habsburg. Here is one of my favourite photos of him, taken by Heinrich Schuhmann. (Photo: ÖNB)

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1 year

You never know who you will bump into…!

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1 year

Walk through 🇦🇹 Vienna and you will at some point meet a) a Habsburg and/or b) the wonderful @lucy_coatman , very competent in Habsburg matters. Try it our!

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2 years

Very 2020: Franz Ferdinand can’t visit Crown Prince Rudolf because he is in quarantine.

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3 months

The future Emperor Karl at school. 📸: ÖNB

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1 year

Currently holding court in Sacher (my friends did this to me 😂)

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6 months

Parent’s cat does not approve of my presence.

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1 year

So I am currently tweeting from what used to be Crown Prince Rudolf’s bedroom 😭

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1 year

Pictured: one tired historian returning from the national library (laptop broken) after submitting many deadlines and a Very Important Document re: the book ahead of the New Year. Maybe now I can eat my lunch?

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1 year

Yesterday I got to speak about Mozart to a really lovely group visiting from a university in America… tonight they invited me to see Die Zauberflöte at the Staatsoper… my heart is so full!!!

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1 year

Last night in Oberösterreich I had to resist the urge to sing a certain song also sung by Julie Andrews

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1 year

30.1.1889 💔🥀 There is so much that could be said on this anniversary. Yet all there really is to say… is that I hope Mary and Rudolf have finally found peace. Their families too. And that my only other wish is to do them justice through my work.

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1 year

Born on this day in 1892: Zita of Bourbon-Parma, later empress of Austria and queen of Hungary 🤍

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Greetings from Kloster Maria Engelport!

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2 years

My cats are pretty thrilled that I am home

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1 year

Thank you so much to everyone who came to my talk on Mayerling for @HistoryIndoors . I’m really overwhelmed by the support and positive feedback! But now I need to recover from almost crying in front of 90+ people when reading out Mary’s farewell notes… wine and a bath it is!

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2 years

Anorexia recovery is a very long process, and this year was the first Christmas I just ate without even thinking any eating disordered thoughts!

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3 years

On this day in 1898, Empress Elisabeth of Austria was assassinated in Geneva by Luigi Lucheni. She was travelling under the pseudonym Countess of Hohenembs, but the news that she was staying at Hotel Beau-Rivage became public knowledge. (Photo: last known of the Empress).

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11 months

I’ve made it. Waiters in my stammcafé have known who I am for ages, but know they know exactly what I will order and where I will sit… next stop… my post delivered here?

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Karl and Zita’s children in the snow, 1928. 📸: ÖNB

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1 year

Look at all these goodies that arrived all the way from America! Thank you so much @TridentineBrew for this kind gift! Now I will always know not to procrastinate my Zita research when I’m drinking my coffee when I work from home 😆

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2 years

Fin.

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5 months

While waiting for confession at Stephansdom… (put your sound on!!!) 🤩

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2 years

Very excited to be giving a guest talk on the Mayerling incident with @HistoryIndoors in February! Will share some juicy new research from my upcoming book on Mary Vetsera 👀 get your tickets here:

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The view from my window! Happy 1. Advent!

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Zita with her children at Christmas, 1927. Photographed by Heinrich Schuhmann. (📸: ÖNB)

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