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Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, were particularly supportive of their mother during her widowhood and remained close throughout their lives. Like their parents, they would know much sorrow as adults. Victoria's romance with Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria, was thwarted by Bismarck for political reasons and she married twice, firstly to a minor German prince and secondly to a young Russian adventurer who left her to die in poverty. Sophie married the future King Constantine of Greece, whose ill-starred reign saw them forced to leave their throne not once but twice, both dying in exile. Margaret married a prince of Hesse-Cassel, both became members of the Nazi party, and she lived to see her family and house become victims of theft on a major scale at the hands of occupying forces at the end of the Second World War. Using previously unpublished sources, this is the first biography to tell the lives of all three princesses.

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"Van der Kiste has written a very readable account, not just of the three sisters but also of the world in which they lived. He's particularly good on the effects of the second world war and in placing the people into a world to which we can relate (King Constantine of Greece's youngest brother Andrew was the father of Philip, who's better known to us as the Duke of Edinburgh) and excels at bringing the personalities off the page as individuals, which must have been particularly challenging when so many have the same - or similar - names."
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Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II
Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, were particularly supportive of their mother during her widowhood and remained close throughout their lives. Like their parents, they would know much sorrow as adults. Victoria's romance with Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria, was thwarted by Bismarck for political reasons and she married twice, firstly to a minor German prince and secondly to a young Russian adventurer who left her to die in poverty. Sophie married the future King Constantine of Greece, whose ill-starred reign saw them forced to leave their throne not once but twice, both dying in exile. Margaret married a prince of Hesse-Cassel, both became members of the Nazi party, and she lived to see her family and house become victims of theft on a major scale at the hands of occupying forces at the end of the Second World War. Using previously unpublished sources, this is the first biography to tell the lives of all three princesses.

REVIEWS

"Van der Kiste has written a very readable account, not just of the three sisters but also of the world in which they lived. He's particularly good on the effects of the second world war and in placing the people into a world to which we can relate (King Constantine of Greece's youngest brother Andrew was the father of Philip, who's better known to us as the Duke of Edinburgh) and excels at bringing the personalities off the page as individuals, which must have been particularly challenging when so many have the same - or similar - names."
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Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

by John van der Kiste
Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II
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Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

Prussian Princesses: The Sisters of Kaiser Wilhelm II

by John van der Kiste

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Kaiser Friedrich III and his consort Victoria, Princess Royal of Great Britain, had six children who lived to maturity, the eldest being Kaiser Wilhelm II. The three younger sisters, Victoria, Sophie and Margaret, were particularly supportive of their mother during her widowhood and remained close throughout their lives. Like their parents, they would know much sorrow as adults. Victoria's romance with Alexander of Battenberg, Prince of Bulgaria, was thwarted by Bismarck for political reasons and she married twice, firstly to a minor German prince and secondly to a young Russian adventurer who left her to die in poverty. Sophie married the future King Constantine of Greece, whose ill-starred reign saw them forced to leave their throne not once but twice, both dying in exile. Margaret married a prince of Hesse-Cassel, both became members of the Nazi party, and she lived to see her family and house become victims of theft on a major scale at the hands of occupying forces at the end of the Second World War. Using previously unpublished sources, this is the first biography to tell the lives of all three princesses.

REVIEWS

"Van der Kiste has written a very readable account, not just of the three sisters but also of the world in which they lived. He's particularly good on the effects of the second world war and in placing the people into a world to which we can relate (King Constantine of Greece's youngest brother Andrew was the father of Philip, who's better known to us as the Duke of Edinburgh) and excels at bringing the personalities off the page as individuals, which must have been particularly challenging when so many have the same - or similar - names."
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ISBN-13: 9781781554357
Publisher: Fonthill Media
Publication date: 03/19/2015
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Genealogical Table 6

Preface 7

1 'So full of understanding of us children' 1866-83 9

2 '1 have my three sweet girls' 1883-89 18

3 'Serious and grave but no tears' 1889-93 36

4 'One hated oneself for not being able to relieve her' 1893-1901 56

5 'Trying to repress her feelings' 1901-14 69

6 'Too cruel & too senseless' 1914-18 81

7 'They would show us who the masters were' 1919-26 92

8 'Titles, money, everything may go' 1927-32 105

9 'The fingers of the acquisitive' 1932-54 121

Notes 136

Bibliography 146

Index 151

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