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says 6/27/13 reversed along left side, but this is obviously lifted from somebody else. Might be a copyright date faded out bottom right

rjones0856: These are the four sons of William, Crown Prince of Germany en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_German_Crown_Prince The youngest son was born Dec. 19, 1911.

OK. But I doubt that Bain News Service added a caption in German to their photos. It looks like a picture of another picture, probably a postcard.

rjones0856: The Bain News Service did purchase images from other commercial agencies and then reproduced those images for distribution. This may be one of those cases. A description of the Bain Collection, which mentions this fact, can be found here.

I hope I didn't give the impression I was shocked or upset by this. I merely meant that the picture was likely to be older than the date visible on the negative. Just for the record, by the way, I think this photo series is absolutely wonderful. It's like getting to go to a new museum exhibit every Monday or so.

That's Wilhelm (1906-1940), Louis Ferdinand (1907-1994), Hubertus (1909-1950), and Frederick (1911-1966): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Wilhelm_of_Prussia_%281906-1... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ferdinand,_Prince_of_Prussia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Hubertus_of_Prussia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Frederick_of_Prussia

ok

pennylrichardsca: Thanks for finding out the names of the children here. We'll include this next time we update.

This is one of the best photographic portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm I've ever seen. And one of the few bare headed.

kind of an idiot.

You can see the family resemblance to Queen Victoria and her family, that is for sure.

The reason you can't see his left arm is because it was crippled and he was ashamed of that.

Please, befö: A mild form of madness was an hereditary chance, and the last(?) Kaiser may have inherited that. He did not want the Great War. He had been kept apart from his parents by Bismarck Bismarck was an unfit Chancellor - involving the Kaiserreich in alliances that did not work out as planned. His dismissal was far too late but quit proper, as he was doing the unthinkable: He was failing to consult his Kaiser on matters of national importance.