More Views of Mary

Yes, who was Mary? Today she would be classed as a 'troubled, sexually precocious adolescent' who was being carefully 'groomed' by Marie Larisch. The Mary Vetsera type these days would probably be slightly older (in her early twenties) and would also be rather more 'savvy' and have signed up with Max Clifford in the blink of an eye. 
The real Mary's trajectory of notoriety was fairly meteoric for the times and would certainly have impressed MC! Anyway, I like to think of her as a fledgling version of Donna Elvira in Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' (ie: oversexed and slightly mad.)  
These three vignettes show aspects of her which were reported at the time and I haven't actually made these situations up at all but they are a bit cartoon-like of course, kind of in the spirit of 'Bunty' comics for girls, lol. 
The MV storyboard begins with a sketch of Mary being surrounded by male admirers at the last grand ball she attended before the fateful trip to Mayerling and oblivion. I have pictured her wearing her crescent moon hair decoration (which she can be seen wearing in a series of portrait photos c1888.) Of course, I've made it slighter bigger than actual size, for emphasis etc. I quite like her rather fanatical glassy-eyed look in this. I have also put her confidante, Marie Larisch, in the background. The crescent moon is a symbol of the Roman goddess Diana, the huntress, who was also the goddess of chastity.

(As a side note,  Sisi, Rudolf's mother, at the zenith of her beauty, was famous for wearing star decorations in her hair-- see the famous Winterhalter portrait. Sisi had been much impressed by the starry set decoration for the 'Queen of the Night' scene from Mozart's 'The Magic Flute' and Franz Joseph had commissioned the diamond star hair decorations as a special gift for her.)

The middle sketch is MV in a theatre box, training her opera glasses upon Crown Princess Stephanie. Apparently she was known to do this kind of thing quite often, winding up the poor CPS something chronic. MV once pointedly refused to curtsey to her at a ball.  
Here Mary is wearing a simple black dress, the style of which is copied from one of the last portrait photos of MV (touch of the Lillie Langtry coquette here as well as a bit of proto-Chanel fashion nous, methinks!)

The final sketch is a sort of representation of Rudolf and Mary's first meeting. I think Mary set out to get noticed by the Crown Prince at any cost and on one occasion held a red rose in her gloved hand. She then kept staring at Rudolf at every opportunity, trying to catch his gaze from across the room and glancing at him over her shoulder. She obviously loved the art of flirting but wasn't terribly subtle about it as everyone noticed what she was up to straightaway, of course.