Photograph of the Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria standing in a full length portrait and facing three-quarters to the left. He holds an umbrella in his left hand an a bowler hat in his right. He stands against a painted backdrop.

Crown Prince Rudolf was born on the 21 August 1858 in Laxenburg, Austria. His father was Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830-1916) and his mother, Empress Elisabeth of Austria (1837-98). Rudolf married Princess Princess Stéphanie of Belgium on the 10 May 1881 and they had one daughter, Elisabeth Marie who was born in 1883. However, in 1889 Rudolf, who had separated from his wife, killed both himself and his mistress Baroness Marie Vetsera in an apparent suicide pact in a hunting lodge in Baden that he had purchased in 1887. Rudolf is buried in the Imperial Crypt in Vienna.