Queen Mary of Teck was the great grandchild of George III, through her mother, Mary Adelaide of Cambridge.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the great great grandchild of George III, through his mother Victoria, Princess Royal.
This would make them second cousins, once removed.
Kaiser Wilhelm II was the grandson of Queen Victoria. His mother Victoria was Queen Victoria's eldest child. He was also with Queen Victoria when she died.
He fled with his family to Holland on November 9, 1918.
that Gatsby's king of Germany family.
While deceased a good many years- best known representative was kaiser Wilhelm II- better known in the US as ( Kaiser Bill) they even had songs making fun of him during World War I.
Kaiser Wilhelm II. Interestingly enough, he was a very close relative of the British royal family, who thought it politically advisable to change their name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in 1917. In fact they were cousins. Kaiser Wilhelm II, last Kaiser of Germany, was the Commander in Chief of the German armed forces throughout the war, but his Chief of the Imperial German General Staff, Erich Georg Anton Sebastian von Falkenhayn and his successor, Paul von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, operated semi-independently.
He primarily lived in Potsdam, which is a city directly bordering on Berlin. His family owned several palaces there, including Sanssouci, Cecelienhof, and the New Palace (which was his favorite). When visiting Berlin, he would likely have stayed at the Bellevue Palace, which his family also owned.
The marriage of Edward VII to Alexandra of Denmark meant that both Nicholas II (Russia) and Wilhelm II (Germany) were first cousins of king George V (United Kingdom). George, Wilhelm, and Nicholas's wife Alexandra (Alix) were also all grandchildren of Queen Victoria. All the European Royal Families were, in some way or other, interrelated.
a cousin of Tzar Nicholas II last of the Romanovs to rule Russia due to 1917 revolution and possibly some relation to the Zarina whose family were German aristos
Kaiseer Wilhelm II was the last emperor of Kingdom of Prussia. After the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungry he sided with Austria-Hungry empire and with the start of hostilities ordered invasion of Belgium. He was an ineffective war time leader and his generals mostly ran the show with little regard for civil government.
Wilhelm II was a frequent visitor to Britain when he was young as lots of his relatives were members of the British royal family. His grandmother was Queen Victoria of Britain, his uncle was King Edward VII and his cousin was the future King George V. Growing up he would have seen the richness of the British Empire and it was only natural to try to emulate this for his own country. Germany did obtain an empire in Africa and the western Pacific but not as large as Wilhelm wanted. The Great Naval Race of the early 1900s was an extension of his need to do better than his relatives by trying to build more battleships than the British Royal Navy had.
Link Kaiser has written: 'What became of the Sundance kids' -- subject(s): Family, Biography
The House of Hohenzollern is a German noble dynasty that ruled Prussia, Germany, and Romania. They were involved in shaping European history, particularly through their role in the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership. The family produced several notable figures, including Frederick the Great and Kaiser Wilhelm II.
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