Schönbrunn palace Vienna (Picture 1) |
Kimmo Huosionmaa
When the world went to war in 1914, the ruler of the Austria-Hungary double monarchy was 84 years old emperor Franz-Joseph, who kept his nation in the iron hand. This thing was actually very interesting because this man didn't name the man who will follow him as the ruler of that country. The eldest son of the emperor died in unsure circumstances in the castle of Meyerling, and the problem was that the Emperor did stop the investigations, and then removed the picture of his eldest son Rudolph from all public magazines.
The cause of the death was probably double suicide, but some investigators suspect, that Franz-Joseph was shot those victims in the anger. But here I not writing only about the Meyerling incident. I'm writing about things what made other nations suspected, that everything was not alright in the family of Habsburgs.
The thing that gave the reason to suspect, that old emperor had something personal to hide, was that he kept the power of the nation in his iron hand at the age of 84. Because Franz-Joseph was kept his personal position in the nation, gave the tip that there was something personal to hide. Something bad was hide from the old man's own family. What was this man afraid is lost in the history? What was the thing, what made one of the most powerful men in Europe afraid?
Was it the cause of the death of the Rudolf the crown prince of the Austria-Hungary, and Maria Vetsera? In that case, were made many mistakes, and one of them was that bodies were moved before the investigators came. And in some theories are that Maria Vatsera shot crown prince by an accident, and then herself because she was afraid the hate of Franz-Joseph. Or maybe the shooter was somebody third person, who might set up the double suicide. I
Did those shootings were made by accident or on purpose is remaining in the secret forever. In this theory, those two persons were drunk, and then the accident happened. Did they met their fate by the double suicide or did Franz-Joseph killed them under the influence of alcohol? The crown prince was the only son of the Franz-Joseph, and if the reason for killing that man was the domestic violence, this might be the very hard thing for Franz-Joseph.
When we are thinking the reason, why Franz-Joseph didn't want to see the faces of his son after the Mayerling incident, was that maybe he was used violence in his family. And this man was afraid the revenge of the family if he were given the chair of the power to someone else. So he kept the power until the end of his life at 1916.
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