Austria's crown prince shot his 17-year-old lover and himself at Mayerling, and the throne passed to the man killed at Sarajevo

Crown Prince Rudolf, 30, only son of Emperor Franz Joseph, was found dead at his hunting lodge beside Baroness Mary Vetsera, 17. Rudolf had shot her and then himself. The court first announced heart failure. To obtain a Catholic burial in the Capuchin Crypt, the Vatican was told Rudolf had been mentally unbalanced. Vetsera's body was taken out of the lodge at night by her uncles and buried at the monastery cemetery at Heiligenkreuz; her mother was barred from the funeral. Franz Joseph turned the lodge into a Carmelite convent. With no son, Rudolf's line ended. The succession passed to the emperor's brother Karl Ludwig and then to his son Franz Ferdinand, who was shot at Sarajevo on 28 June 1914. In 1991 a Linz furniture dealer, Helmut Flatzelsteiner, removed Vetsera's remains from the grave and in 1993 paid for forensic tests while claiming they were a relative's. Police recovered the bones after he tried to sell the story. Vienna's forensic institute confirmed a young woman of about 20. The skull was too damaged to show a bullet wound. She was reburied on 28 October 1993.