CLAIM TO THRONES
AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY MAN’S ROMANTIC STORY VIENNA, Oct. 10. A slim, grey-haired man, with features resembling the Hapsburgs, hitherto unknown, claims that he is Prince Karl Rudolf, son of Crown Prince Rudolf, who was murdered at Mayerling in 1889, and consequently heir’ to the thrones of Austria and Hungary, thereby challenging Archduke Otto as Pretender to those thrones. He tells a romantic story how in 1880 Crown Prince Rudolf was married secretly to Princess Marie Antoinette, of Toscana. Marie Antoinette died in 1883, but gave birth to a son, christened Karl Rudolf, whose birth was kept secret. The' child was placed among 11 children of a wealthy Viennese family named Pachmann. Baron Wiesner, leader of the Austrian legitimists, doubts the statement. He says: “What I know about the mother, whose real name was Princess Maria Antonia, Archduchess of Austria, does not permit the assumption that she was secretly married.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23320, 12 October 1937, Page 9
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