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Wilhelm II[b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia. Born during the reign of his granduncle Frederick William IV of Prussia ...
t. e. Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and youngest child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Through her father, Victoria Louise was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United ...
Kaiser Frederick III reigned for only 99 days: 9 March – 15 June 1888. Kaiser Wilhelm II reigned 15 June 1888 – 9 November 1918. The Year of the Three Emperors, or the Year of the Three Kaisers (German: Dreikaiserjahr), refers to the year 1888 during the German Empire in German history. [1][2][3][4] The year is considered to have memorable ...
Signature. Victoria, Princess Royal (Victoria Adelaide Mary Louisa; [1] 21 November 1840 – 5 August 1901) was German Empress and Queen of Prussia as the wife of Frederick III, German Emperor. She was the eldest child of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and was created Princess Royal in 1841.
The Entourage of Kaiser Wilhelm II, 1888–1918. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1982. Sexuality, State, and Civil Society in Germany, 1700–1815. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005.
Augusta Victoria was born at Dolzig Castle, the eldest daughter of Frederick VIII, future Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, and Princess Adelheid of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, [1] a niece of Queen Victoria, through Victoria's half-sister Feodora. She grew up at Dolzig until the death of her grandfather, Christian August II, Duke of ...
Wilhelm II and his wife Augusta Victoria (under the umbrella) lead the royal cortege past the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem, which they had come to dedicate on 31 October 1898. The Kaiser passing through an arch erected by the Jewish community of Jerusalem. Wilhelm II's voyage to the Levant in 1898 was a state visit that the German ...
The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany, 1994. Der Ort Kaiser Wilhelms II. in der deutschen Geschichte, 1991. Purple Secret: Genes, 'Madness' and the Royal Houses of Europe, 1998. Wilhelm II. Die Jugend des Kaisers 1859–1888, 1993. Young Wilhelm: The Kaiser's Early Life, 1859–1888, 1998. Wilhelm II.