cahn

Given W2 called himself "A descendant" (not even a successor, a descendant) of Frederick the Great", I'm not surprised he took lots of stuff with him.

(AW: Fritz can have him as a descendant. I'm disowning him.)

Last year when I visited the Neues Palais, I was reminded that not just Willy but his parents had lived there - they show you the bed poor F3 died in, after all - , and in the recent tv movie about the end of the Empire and W2 getting forced to resign, they shot some scenes there as well.But I hadn't known about Auguste Victoria leaving all those letters behind, though!

Oh, and since I recently mentioned another Emperor F3, explanatory footnote for Mildred and cahn: There had been no HRE Emperors named Wilhelm, so Prussian King Wilhelm I. becoming German Emperor Wilhelm I. after Bismarck had engineered German unification and an Empire courtesy of a war with France was not a problem. However, his son, the one married to Queen Victoria's daughter Vicky, was a Friedrich. There had definitely been HRE Emperors named Friedrich. So the question was - would he put himself into the HRE tradition, in which case he'd have to be Friedrich IV., since there had been already an Emperor F3, the father of Max, or would he go by the Prussian monarchy counting, by which he'd be F3? Friedrich, who was already a very sick man who would die before the year was over and take any hope for a progressive Empire with him, had originally wanted to go with putting himself in the HRE tradition and be F4, but was lectured by Bismarck that this was not on, this Empire was completely different than THAT Empire. Which wasn't a battle worth fighting to a dying man. So he gave in and became F3. Which is why we now have two German Emperors Friedrich III. in our history.