kronprinz

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William,_German_Crown_Prince

great photo to have,

good

Wilhelm is wearing the breast star of the Order of the Black Eagle

See www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search... for a cigarette card of this photo.

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.

Crown Prince Rudolph was the heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, but commited suicide along with his fiancee in 1889. HIs younger brother Franz Ferdinand became crown prince. His assassination in 1914 sparked WW I. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf,_Crown_Prince_of_Austria The Prince & his fiancee died under mysterious circumstances still not fully explained to this day.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Sitting portraits, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

ck out his girlfriend, and the story of his involvement in the Mayerling Incident, a "Romeo and Juliet" sort of murder / suicide. www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3120291717/

from reading history it seems to me that Rudolf was murdered together with his mistress

nice!