Have our trip to
Munich and visits to some of Ludwig's castles I got the following
books out the library:
The Swan King by
Christopher McIntosh (published 1982), and
Ludwig II of Bavaria
by Katerina von Burg (published 1989)
Reading their two
accounts of Ludwig's death is a good example of the myths and mystery
that surround him. McIntosh is convinced that Ludwig entered the
lake in an attempt as suicide, von Burg rules out suicide and is
convinced that it was an assassination.
Maybe von Burg is a
little too certain to find those around Ludwig in those final hours
guilty, however there are enough ambiguities in the events that
McIntosh reads as something of a whitewash.
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