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...ever wore king-gear, Kaiser Wilhelm II, took his Carlylean comeuppance in 1918. His heirs, as a result, have faced the necessity of sinking their roots in the radish patch of common humanity. In The Rebel Prince, his grandson, Prince Louis Ferdinand Victor Edward Albert Michael Hubert Hohenzollern ("Lulu" to the family), says it was a hard fight but he made...
...individualistic. Not that he minded when his father, Crown Prince Wilhelm, with Prussian humor, jovially smeared mashed potatoes in his face. He even enjoyed it when the Crown Prince emptied a jug of water over him and his elder brother Wilhelm as they lay in bed at night. Lulu objected, however, when his governess made him eat soap as a minor punishment, and he got fighting mad when tangled in royalism's red tape. Once, when he was about seven, he slipped free of it for a moment, when no one was looking, and actually crossed a street...
...November 1918, Lulu's mother, Crown Princess Cecilie, came into his room and told him between sobs, "The revolution has broken out. Gross-papa has abdicated. The war is lost." Lulu felt a most unhohenzollernly glee. That meant he wouldn't have to go to military school next year...
After school the Prussian regimen continued unabated. Lulu was 14 before he was allowed to take a train trip alone. But as soon as he was graduated from high school, he began to catch up with the world around him. He studied hard...
...Lulu followed Lily to the U.S., got a job as a Ford mechanic with the romantic idea of becoming self-supporting and marrying her. Grandfather said no, however, and took up the matter with Henry Ford, as one monarch to another. Suddenly Lulu found himself in a Ford plant in Argentina to "cool...