ABSTRACT
This essay was first published as a review of Edward Crankshaw, The Fall of The House of Habsburg (London, Longman, 1963), in the Observer, 15 September 1963.
The Empress Elizabeth was assassinated by all Italian anarchist at Geneva in 1898. Archduke Rudolf committed suicide with his mistress at Mayerling in 1889. Archduke Franz Ferdinard was assassinated with his wife at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 – the event which set off the decisions leading to the outbreak of the First World War.
