Photographs - Left: Hand-coloured photograph of Victoria, Princess Royal, now Princess Friedrich of Prussia, with her first son, Prince Wilhelm, later Kaiser W…

Victoria, Princess Royal and later known as the Empress Frederick, was intelligent and liberal minded but also suffered from a terrible fate in her adopted lan…

Born on December 1, 1877, Hermine was the fourth daughter and fifth of six children of Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz, and his wife, Princess Ida Mathi…

A young Prince Wilhelm, later, the last German Kaiser and King of Prussia.   While Kaiser Wilhelm II was a young man of eighteen, an august relative paid…

The nine European kings who attended King Edward VII's funeral in 1910. Image from Wikimedia Commons. The funeral of King Edward VII on May 20, …

Kaiserin Hermine, the Kaiser and her youngest daughter, Henriette, in Doorn, about 1931. Image from Wikimedia Commons  The House of Reuss-Greiz ruled on…

A 1917 Punch cartoon depicts King George sweeping away his German titles. Image: Wikipedia On August 4, 1914, Great Britain was thrown into World War I af…

From left to right: Wilhelm I, Friedrich III, and Wilhelm II The year 1888 is known to this day in Germany as the Year of Three Emperors. It saw the end…

Kaiser Wilhelm II 'I am for hanging the Kaiser,' announced the Labour MP George Barnes, during an election speech at Netherton in November 1918.…

A portrait of the Empress Frederick when she was still Crown Princess of Prussia. By Winterhalter, Wikimedia Commons Cronberg, August 6, 1901 After a…

The Empress Friedrich of Germany.  Image: Wikimedia Commons Cronberg, August 5, 1901 - A dispatch to the New York Times reports the passing of Dowager Empr…