Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia

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Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia was the only daughter and the last child of Wilhelm II, German Emperor, and Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. Through her father, Victoria Louise was a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

Victoria Louise c. 1908

Victoria Louise in 1902, aged 10

Victoria Louise in 1909, as Honorary Colonel of the II. Prussian Life Hussars Regiment

Princess Victoria Louise and Prince Ernest Augustus, 1913

Wilhelm II

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Wilhelm II was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire and the House of Hohenzollern's 300-year reign in Prussia and 500-year reign in Brandenburg.

Wilhelm II in 1902

Wilhelm in 1867, aged 8

Otto von Bismarck, the Chancellor who dominated German policy making until Wilhelm II assumed the throne in 1888

"Dropping the Pilot" by John Tenniel, published in Punch on 29 March 1890, two weeks after Bismarck's forced resignation as Chancellor