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the youngest Prince also renounced all claim to the throne so he could marry below his station, which the former Kaiser forbade.

Copied by the Bain Agency from a German souvenir postcard. This appears to be a composite portrait of the three, each of whom was photographed separately. That would account for the shadow being on the right half of the Kaiser's face, while on the left half of his son's. And the kid is out of proportion to both of his elders.

Looks like another of Crown Prince Wilhelm. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_German_Crown_Prince "His Imperial and Royal Highness Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst Hohenzollern, the Crown Prince of Prussia was best known to most people outside Germany as Little Willie, a slender youth with a long nose and no chin. He was seen in most of his photographs dressed as a Death's Head Hussar, and caricaturists generally drew him in that uniform, which suited his long and lanky fignre. At eighteen he "came of age" and assumed the Royal and Imperial dignities and precedence, and in the same year (1900) was made a Lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards, served three years in that rank, became a Cavalry Captain for four years, and a Major for six. His name appeared on the lists of eleven or twelve different German regiments, and he also belonged to the llth Spanish Dragoons. Up to the outbreak of the Great War he could be described as a keen regimental soldier up to a certain point. He was advanced to the command of the Death's Head Hussars at Danzig. Without any real knowledge of war he was quickly jumped up in rank from commander of a cavalry regiment to lieutenantgeneral, and given command of the largest group of army-corps." www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/totenkopf.htm

Nice Collection:)

Is this Frederick William Victor Augustus Ernest (German: Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst) (6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951) of the House of Hohenzollern who was the last Crown Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia and the German Empire?

It certainly looks like Wilhelm, and near as I can tell he was the only Crown Prince around that time (his brothers just being Princes). But 1910-15 seems a bit late considering lack of moustache and military uniform. Wilhelm was born in 1882 and so would've been 28-33 at that time, with his eldest son (also Wilhelm) already 4 to 9 years old. I suspect this is more what he would've looked like circa 1910. Not at all scientific, but to me this looks more like a 20-year-old lad, circa 1900 or 1905.

Bain used a lot of older stock photos for their coverage of royalty, see for instance...

trialsanderrors Ah, thanks for the explanation.