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…

Empress Augusta Victoria, with her daughter, Victoria Luise. Image from Wikimedia Commons On October 22, 1858, Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany was born at …

Just like her mother, the Empress Frederick, who was treated coldly in Prussia, Queen Sophia of Greece also endured the same in her adopted country bec…

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

Until 1740, the mineral-rich province of Silesia was part of the Habsburg dominions. For centuries, this dynasty had provided rulers to Spain, Austria, …

Princess Wilhelmine Friederike Sophie of Prussia was born on July 3, 1709 in the city of Berlin, the capital of the kingdom of Prussia.   She was the e…

Sans Souci. Image: Flickr The Prussian House of Hohenzollern was one of Europe’s most illustrious and powerful dynasties. Originally margraves of Brande…

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…