Mizzi Kaspar

[2] Prince Rudolf is said to have spent large sums of money on her, especially by way of gifts, including 60,000 florins shortly before his death.

According to some historians, Kaspar was Prince Rudolf's first choice to join his suicide pact.

When she refused he turned to his other mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera.

[2][5] According to Serge Schmemann:[6] Prince Rudolf had in fact contemplated suicide for at least a half year before his death.

He initially asked the first love of his life, one Mitzi Kaspar, to share his fate, but the 24-year-old woman declined.Prince Rudolf's affairs and suicide at Mayerling have been dramatised in books, ballets, plays and movies.