Sue Woolmans
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156 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 29 Mar
Sue Woolmans’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He used to buy her brooches in the shape of a lamb.
And she would wear these brooches.
And if his temper flared, she would just happily stroke the brooch.
And that would tell him that he better shut up now.
He was going as a member of the military, not as an arts duke.
He was only going to actually observe these maneuvers in the hills above Sarajevo.
He wasn't going to actually visit Sarajevo itself.
But then the governor general of Sarajevo, a man called Potiorek, decided that it would be a brilliant feather in his cap to have Franz Ferdinand do at least a half-day visit to Sarajevo.
And he talked Franz Ferdinand into this.
The family, the descendants, believe she went really so that she was sitting next to him when the Archduke went through the center of Sarajevo in a car.
There was a tradition in the 19th century that you didn't shoot women.
So her sitting next to him was some sort of security.
And she would have thought of that.
And that's one of the reasons why she went with him.
There were two plots, basically.
There was one bunch of students who were hanging around in Belgrade, and then back in Sarajevo, there was another plot.
The Sarajevo plot was much more backed by the Black Hand and were Black Hand members.
It was a guy called Illich and another chap called Mohamed Bassich.
And they'd been talking about assassinating Franz Ferdinand.
And then in Belgrade, a bunch of students were also talking about assassinating Franz Ferdinand.
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