Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ion and pinon him genuine hopes of a safe and sane reign. Crown Prince Williams first notice to all concernedthat he had emerged from the personally-conductedstage was the manner in which he went about theimportant business of choosing a wife. It is not ofofficial record that the Kaiser cherished for his heiran alliance of such obvious political value, forexample, as the marriage of Princess VictoriaLuise, his only daughter, to Prince Ernest Augustusof Cumberland. At any rate, when the CrownPrince went consort-hunting he decided to obeyexclusively the mandates of his own inclinations andto marry for love and beauty. No royal romancein any age was more purely ideal than that whichculminated in the wedding of the future GermanEmperor and Cecelie, Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, in the summer of 1905. The lithe brunettePrincess, who is half Russian, and more French thanGerman, took Berlin by storm when she made herState entry into the Imperial capital. She has 64 1 •> ■>> J
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