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Imperative Request. Not long ago the General, ripe with the prudence of 60, was appealed to by a charming woman whom German Monarchists still hail as their future Kaiserin. She, Princess Cecilia, onetime Duchess of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, onetime Crown Princess of Germany, asked little enough of old General von Seeckt. Surely the General would let her eldest son-her Wilhelm-enter the Ninth Company of Infantry in which the Hohenzollerns have always served...
...onetime Kaiserin, Auguste Victoria, arrived on the same day, much broken down in health. As months passed, it was she, not Wilhelm, who passed sleepless nights and nerve-wracked days, lest the Allies enforce Part IV (Penalties) Article 227 of the Treaty of Versailles. Therein are inscribed the most celebrated "dead sentences" of that document: "The Allied and Associated Powers publicly arraign William II, of Hohenzollern, formerly German Emperor, for a supreme offense against international morality and the sanctity of treaties...
...everyone knows the onetime Kaiserin died at Doorn (April 11, 1921). Reputedly Wilhelm II refers to his present consort, Princess Hermine, as "Her Majesty the Empress...
Augusta Victoria. Memories stimulated by this incident recalled that the late Kaiserin was one of the best intentioned and least fortunate of loving mothers, consorts, empresses. Her futile attempts to hold the fickle love or even the attention of Wilhelm II became a byword and a jest at court...
Once, it is told, she painted with her own hands all the furniture in the antechamber of Their Majesties' bedroom a bright and cheerful green. Characteristically, Wilhelm chanced to return, 48 hours before he was expected from the particular little journey which had given the Kaiserin this opportunity to please him. He returned in the night and with a sufficiently bad cold not to notice the smell of fresh paint. Flinging his clothes upon a chair in the anteroom, he donned his night garments, sat down for a moment upon another chair, slipped within the snowy Imperial sheets...