‘It makes one mad to think of all the misery that may yet come.’” ‘I think with fright and horror of the future’ she confided to her mother in 1897. But unlike many of Victoria’s grandchildren, Wilhelm couldn’t be controlled with a word from his grandma.Īs he veered closer and closer to war, says Cadbury, his mother Vicky “was driven almost to treason in her letters to her British mother, so alarmed was she by the actions of her son.
He was the product of what Victoria once thought was one of her most successful matches: the marriage of her daughter, Vicky, to Prince William of Prussia. Victoria’s most contentious grandchild was Kaiser Wilhelm II, the volatile ruler of the German empire. Once these first cousins took their thrones, they often found themselves at cross purposes.
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