The Crown Prince and Princess with their four sons

The Crown Prince and Princess with their four sons. Photograph by E. Bieber

Identifier: memoriesofkaiser00toph (find matches)

Title: Memories of the Kaiser's court

Year: 1914 (1910s)

Authors: Topham, Anne, 1864-1927

Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Court and courtiers

Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead and Company

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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soldier and atypical Hohenzollern, with supreme confidence inthe star of his family, and earnestly desires tolive his life in his own way, to move with thetimes, to be a child of his century; and it is pro-bable that with a little more experience of life,especially perhaps of that discipline of sorrowwhich initiates most men into a new sphere ofthought, he will develop into the man the worldhopes to see in him—something steadfast andstrong, and perhaps a little more silent. Atpresent he is very good-natured, very kind, verycrude in his ideas, very young for his age, veryself-confident and rather selfish, as the moderntype of young man is apt to be. He is popularin Potsdam, where he picks up little boys forrides on his charger as he comes home fromdrill, flings gold pieces abroad to poverty-strickenpeople, gives lifts in his motor-car to weary menon the road. He has all that facile, democratic,easy generosity which wins popularity, and pos-sesses great charm of manner together with a

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z z X w po P faUZ 35 ~ p C Qfa r< w P—a!fa S3P S t/3X U z oz«d fauz zou fa X THE KAISER AND KAISERIN 281 hatred of coercion and restraint. Probably somerecent outbreaks have been due to a desire toshow his independence of mind, a yearning tocast off conventional shackles and to say whathe thinks. He still has a good deal of the schoolboy inhis composition, although since his marriage hehas given up his favourite pastime of slidingdown staircase banisters. But it is not so long since, when he andhis family were living in the Stadt-Schloss atPotsdam, one wet day when entertainment washard to find, he had the happy idea of amusinghis children by taking their tiny Shetland ponyupstairs to the nursery. The pony had first to be fetched by the CrownPrince and his adjutant from the stables of theMarmor Palais, and was with difficulty draggedand pushed into the automobile, where, in astate of abject terror, it protested all the wayagainst its abduction. When they arrived at the Stadt-Sch

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