Vetsera, Mary, did not meet the Crown Prince in London as the author of _The Martyrdom of an Empress_, says, 102, 103; died with him at Meyerling, 200; belonged to a family well known in Vienna, 201; her character, had started her acquaintance with Rudolf by writing asking him to see her, insulted the Crown Princess, 203; Rudolf asked the Countess Marie Larisch to bring her to him at the Hofburg, 205; which she did, 206; she was taken by Rudolf to Meyerling, 207; a former occasion on which the Prince had visited her, 209; her belief that Rudolf would become King of Hungary and marry her, her parents seeking for her, 211; her death with Rudolf, 213; theories about the tragedy, 213-215; her last letters, 216; her reputed part in the tragedy, 222-227 Victor Emmanuel, King of Italy, 51, 122, 123, 128, 131, 149-152 Vienna, 41, 43, 45, 46, 51, 52, 108, 136, 169, 183, 184, 192, 198, 208, 212, 219, 229, 234, 251, 253, 254, 266, 274, 276, 288 Vienna, Congress of (1814-15), 1, 4 Visconti-Venosta, Marquis, 152 Waldeck, Countess of, 238 Walburg, Baron Ernest, 287 Waterloo, Battle of, 1 Weindel, H. de, _François Joseph Intime_, v, 117 Wellington, Duke of, 63 Wiederhofer, Dr., 214, 223 _Wiener Zeitung_ on General Benedek, 138; on the degradation of Princess Louisa of Tuscany, 323, 324 William I., King of Prussia, 133, 152, 194 William, Archduke, 279 William Francis Charles, Archduke, 161 Windischgraetz, Alfred von, 46-48, 52, 53, 88, 298 Windischgraetz, Prince Ernest von, 299 Windischgraetz, Prince Otto von, 293, 297-299 Wittelsbach, House of, family to which the Archduchess Sophia and the Empress Elizabeth belonged, insanity in both branches of it, 72; which are madder, they or the Habsburgs? 187; the difference in description, 188; Ludwig II., 188-191; Duchesse d’Alençon, 191; Comte de Trani, Archduke Ladislas, Archduchess Elizabeth, 192 Wörth, 152 Wulfling, Herr, _see_ Leopold Ferdinand Archduke Zurich, 162 BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS BY FRANCIS GRIBBLE. MADAME DE STAEL AND HER LOVERS. [8]GEORGE SAND AND HER LOVERS. ROUSSEAU AND THE WOMEN HE LOVED. CHATEAUBRIAND AND HIS COURT OF WOMEN. THE PASSIONS OF THE FRENCH ROMANTICS. THE LOVE AFFAIRS OF LORD BYRON. RACHEL: HER STAGE LIFE AND HER REAL LIFE. THE ROMANTIC LIFE OF SHELLEY. THE COMEDY OF CATHERINE THE GREAT. ROMANCES OF THE FRENCH THEATRE. THE TRAGEDY OF ISABELLA II. THE COURT OF CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN AND THE LATER ADVENTURES OF THE QUEEN IN EXILE. [Footnote 8: Popular Edition at 2_s._ net.] Transcriber’s Notes Page ix—changed depreciaton to depreciation Page 108—changed Siècle to Le Siècle Page 149—changed Luxemburg to Luxembourg Page 215—changed herself to himself Page 265—changed yould to would