Lucy Coatman
@lucycoatman.bsky.social
Historian - Mary Vetsera's biographer. Musical theatre obsessive. Coordinating editor for "Moriz Nähr, Photographer for Habsburg, Klimt and Wittgenstein" @ Klimt Foundation.
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Lucy Coatman
@lucycoatman.bsky.social
· Jan 30
Very excited that the Mayerling episode of Secrets d'Histoire is being released! 19th February, 21:05, France 3.
The Mayerling incident happened 136 years ago today.
www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-p...
The Mayerling incident happened 136 years ago today.
www.francetvpro.fr/contenu-de-p...
I’m really sorry, but I just can’t get used to posting here! If you’d like updates from me, I’m on Instagram as lucycoatman
August 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I’m really sorry, but I just can’t get used to posting here! If you’d like updates from me, I’m on Instagram as lucycoatman
Does anyone know if the computers at the Austrian National Library have PowerPoint? I need to edit my presentation for a lecture I’m giving on Sunday, but don’t have PP and the slides are apparently too much for Google slides to handle/I need to be able to password protect
July 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Does anyone know if the computers at the Austrian National Library have PowerPoint? I need to edit my presentation for a lecture I’m giving on Sunday, but don’t have PP and the slides are apparently too much for Google slides to handle/I need to be able to password protect
Look who I found… @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social
June 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Look who I found… @johnpaulnewman.bsky.social
Also up for auction is this pastel portrait of Mary Vetsera. Had the chance to see it the other month at a research appointment!
May 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Also up for auction is this pastel portrait of Mary Vetsera. Had the chance to see it the other month at a research appointment!
May 27, 2025 at 5:59 PM
I need to get good at posting here, I’m sorry. I’m such an Instagram addict. 🤦🏻♀️
May 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
I need to get good at posting here, I’m sorry. I’m such an Instagram addict. 🤦🏻♀️
Came for a Vetsera related meeting, stayed for the art.
April 7, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Came for a Vetsera related meeting, stayed for the art.
Thankfully getting back on track with everything now that I no longer feel like a zombie (thank you, Hashimoto’s diagnosis and meds!), so if I owe you something, I hope to get it to you in the next couple of weeks!
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Thankfully getting back on track with everything now that I no longer feel like a zombie (thank you, Hashimoto’s diagnosis and meds!), so if I owe you something, I hope to get it to you in the next couple of weeks!
(Sorry for the double post lol, I needed to remove the image I posted from the screen test 😬)
April 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
(Sorry for the double post lol, I needed to remove the image I posted from the screen test 😬)
I had a fun morning on Saturday filming my interview for an upcoming Secrets d’Histoire episode in Empress Zita at the French embassy in Vienna! It was really nice to get back into material that I haven’t had a chance to look at for a while.
April 7, 2025 at 8:07 AM
I had a fun morning on Saturday filming my interview for an upcoming Secrets d’Histoire episode in Empress Zita at the French embassy in Vienna! It was really nice to get back into material that I haven’t had a chance to look at for a while.
Alright. Summarised all my notes to have at hand for the Zita interview tomorrow. Feeling less stressed and looking forward to it now! (But not the early wake up call…)
April 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Alright. Summarised all my notes to have at hand for the Zita interview tomorrow. Feeling less stressed and looking forward to it now! (But not the early wake up call…)
On a different topic - there are a couple of Mary’s poems that I want to put in my book. They’re not particularly high brow, and my German is fluent, but I don’t feel I have the artistic capability to render them well in English, and a direct translation would be weird. What would you do?
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 AM
On a different topic - there are a couple of Mary’s poems that I want to put in my book. They’re not particularly high brow, and my German is fluent, but I don’t feel I have the artistic capability to render them well in English, and a direct translation would be weird. What would you do?
Feeling slightly overwhelmed about filming this Zita episode on Saturday 😵💫
April 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Feeling slightly overwhelmed about filming this Zita episode on Saturday 😵💫
April 1, 1989: Empress Zita’s funeral. She was buried on the anniversary of the death of her husband Karl (April 1, 1922), who she loved so much.
April 1, 2025 at 11:11 AM
April 1, 1989: Empress Zita’s funeral. She was buried on the anniversary of the death of her husband Karl (April 1, 1922), who she loved so much.
The future Emperor Karl as a child at Villa Wartholz.
📸: ÖNB
📸: ÖNB
April 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM
The future Emperor Karl as a child at Villa Wartholz.
📸: ÖNB
📸: ÖNB
This week was scarily productive for my job, my own research & writing, teaching, preparing for filming a tv episode on Empress Zita… it’s nice to be healthy & motivated again, but I’m excited to sleep and see The Phantom of the Opera for the 40 somethingth time tomorrow… 😅
March 28, 2025 at 7:29 PM
This week was scarily productive for my job, my own research & writing, teaching, preparing for filming a tv episode on Empress Zita… it’s nice to be healthy & motivated again, but I’m excited to sleep and see The Phantom of the Opera for the 40 somethingth time tomorrow… 😅
Kind of obsessed with Crown Prince Rudolf’s picnic set that was auctioned in 2008.
March 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Kind of obsessed with Crown Prince Rudolf’s picnic set that was auctioned in 2008.
Where else would Mayerling experts meet but in Kaffee Monarchie?
March 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Where else would Mayerling experts meet but in Kaffee Monarchie?
Alright, who signed me up to receive a magazine for over 50s?
March 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Alright, who signed me up to receive a magazine for over 50s?
Reposted by Lucy Coatman
Very excited that this book is out 🗃️: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/austrian-...
Austrian Identity and Modernity
Bringing together an interdisciplinary cast of scholars, this volume explores national and nationalist identification(s) in Austria, as they were represented th…
www.bloomsbury.com
March 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Very excited that this book is out 🗃️: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/austrian-...
Today I experienced a virtual reality boat ride where Sisi was our tour guide and we were going through the sewers of Vienna before flying into Schönbrunn (in the boat) and then flying above Vienna (still in the boat). I’m going to need some time to recover from that.
March 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Today I experienced a virtual reality boat ride where Sisi was our tour guide and we were going through the sewers of Vienna before flying into Schönbrunn (in the boat) and then flying above Vienna (still in the boat). I’m going to need some time to recover from that.
Born on this day in 1871: Marie Alexandrine Freiin von Vetsera, known as ‘Mary’. 🤍
📸: ÖNB
📸: ÖNB
March 19, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Born on this day in 1871: Marie Alexandrine Freiin von Vetsera, known as ‘Mary’. 🤍
📸: ÖNB
📸: ÖNB
A big part of me was irritated that poor health + my job kept me from finishing my book on Mary Vetsera, but I read through things and wrote 5 pages tonight and think the distance did me some good. I feel motivated again and realised there actually isn’t that much left to write!
March 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
A big part of me was irritated that poor health + my job kept me from finishing my book on Mary Vetsera, but I read through things and wrote 5 pages tonight and think the distance did me some good. I feel motivated again and realised there actually isn’t that much left to write!
New (old) Mary Vetsera photos in my collection! 🤩
March 18, 2025 at 11:23 AM
New (old) Mary Vetsera photos in my collection! 🤩
Who wore it better? Young Otto von Habsburg or King Charles?
March 16, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Who wore it better? Young Otto von Habsburg or King Charles?