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Kaiser Wilhelm II (public domain on Wikimedia Commons) and Tsar Nicholas II (public domain on Wikimedia Commons) In the year 1918, just after the end of World War I, American journalist, writer, and ...
King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed impeccable Vandyke beards; people had trouble telling the men apart. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II had so elaborate a ...
A new documentary has revealed how the roots of the Great War lay partly in the tangled web of Royal family relationships - in particular that of the British-hating Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany ...
When Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family undertook a three-week vacation in Denmark, they required 20 railroad cars and an entourage of more than 100. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II spent ...
Nicholas’ wife was also a first cousin to George (on his father’s side) and Kaiser Wilhelm bore the same close relationship to both. (He was also related twice over to the czar.) In Carter’s ...
One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany exchanged a series of telegrams to try to stop the rush to a war that neither of them wanted. They signed ...
His Russian cousin, Czar Nicholas II, had recently lost his throne ... Nicholas and Wilhelm” succeeds magnificently. The kaiser has always been a fascinating figure. His spectacular gaffes ...
Miranda Carter's "George, Nicholas and Wilhelm," about the interaction between three imperial cousins of 1914—Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, Czar Nicholas II of Russia and King George V of ...
Two other leading sovereigns, Tzar Nicholas II and German Kaiser Wilhelm II, were linked to him by blood. Their bond and power, shattered by World War I, has been marked by a special three-coin ...
Forming a trade union of majesties, King George V (Britain), Kaiser Wilhelm II (Germany) and Czar Nicholas II (Russia) were cousins who together ruled more than half the world. They were a family ...