“You may believe that,” Lord Belgrave had replied, “but I personally think he would have been just the same if he had been born with two arms as straight as ramrods!”
It was not easy to make excuses for Prince William.
Only a few months after he had been crowned as the new Kaiser, he put all the conventional restraints of mourning aside. He invited himself to the Courts of Russia and Austria.
Everyone in England knew that Queen Victoria had remonstrated with him over this unseemly haste.
He merely replied that there were dangers confronting Monarchy all over the globe.
“We Emperors must stick together,” he had proclaimed proudly.
As Lord Belgrave explained when he reported to the Palace what he had heard,
“The new Kaiser is prepared to accept his grandmother, Queen Victoria, the Emp
