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Part One: Kaiser Wilhelm: The Saddest Warlord In History

Behind the Bastards

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The Arm Stretching Machine

Wilhelm was the baby of the global royal family and for a time, Queen Victoria's favorite grandchild. John Vanderkiss describes him as a spirited child. He threw his aunt Beatrice's muff out the carriage window on their way to St. George's Chapel Windsor. When she told him petulently that he must address her as an aunt, he snapped back, aunt baby then.

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