They married after two months when she was 61 and he was 27. In 1927, Moretta held a party for Bonn students, and she met Alexander Zoubtkoff, or 'Sascha'. Moretta was trying to divorce her husband when he died in 1916. Victoria finally got mental health treatment and lost her eating disorder during the marriage, but the experience had left her infertile.Īfter fifteen years of marriage, Moretta started an affair with her husband's nephew Wolrad. The marriage wasn't happy, as Adolf was always away. Her brother William opposed the marriage and they would never be together.Īt the age of 24, Moretta married Adolf Schaumberg. She fell in love with Sandro of Battenberg, whose one brother Henry married her aunt Princess Beatrice and other brother Ludwig married her cousin Princess Victoria of Hesse.

Moretta started extreme dieting and developped an eating disorder in her teenage years because of Charlotte's constant taunting. As a teenager, she was bullied by her older sister Charlotte who convinced her she was too fat.

She could be bored easilly however and was very insecure.Īs a child, Moretta was raised along her younger sisters Sophia 'Sossy' and Margaret 'Mossy'. She loved gardening and cooking and was very easy for the servants to talk to. Moretta was the most grounded of the King and Queen's children. She was given her nickname, Moretta, because of her dark hair and eyes, She would remain skinny throughout her entire life because of her teenage eating disorders. Wilhelm II died in 1941 of a pulmonary embolism. In accordance with his last will his bodily remains have been laid to rest in a mausoleum on the estate.Moretta was insecure about her looks in her teenage years and began dieting to have a slimmer waist. The diary of his aide, Von Ilsemann, gives a good impression of the life of the Emperor in Doorn. Together with his ‘House Ministers’ he took care of the possessions he still had in Germany. In Doorn, Wilhelm II mainly spent his time working in his garden and estate, taking walks through the park and the village with his wife and dog, studing archaeology and history and writing his memoirs. The children of Hermine regularly came over for extended periods of time to Doorn. The children of Wilhelm II and Auguste Victoria and their families continued to live and work in Germany. A year after her death, he married again to the widow Princess Hermine von Schönaich-Carolath, born Princess Reuss. His wife Auguste Victoria joined him in the first years of exile but died soon after in 1921. His military advisors suggested he flee to the neutral Netherlands where he lived first for two years in Amerongen and, thereafter, until his death in 1941 in Doorn. The German defeat in the First World War, (1 August 1914 to 11 November 1918) marked a big change for Wilhelm II. Although the Emperor was the ‘Oberster Kriegsherr’ (highest in rank in the army), to his frustration he was not involved in decision-making and, in most cases, only informed in retrospect. This was evident during the First World War when generals such as Paul von Hindenburg, Erich von Falkenhayn, Ludwig von Falkenhausen, Erich Ludendorff and Hans von Plessen made the important decisions. However, during the second half of his reign his influence declined whilst that of the parliament and the army increased. For example, soon after his coronation he dismissed the dominant chancellor Otto von Bismarck. He was a headstrong and authoritarian individual and wanted to lead and influence the government of the German Empire. In 1888, Wilhelm II succeeded his father as King of Prussia and German Emperor. The couple had seven children: six sons and a daughter. In 1881, he married Princess Auguste Viktoria of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1858-1921).

After this, he held several positions in the army. Wilhelm II attended the gymnasium in Kassel and studied history and law at the University of Bonn. Despite his disability, Wilhelm learnt to horse ride and could shoot quite well.

Wilhelm II had a difficult childhood because of a disability his left arm was as good as paralysed and remained behind in growth. Wilhelm II was the German Emperor (Kaiser) and King of Prussia from 15 June 1888 to 9 November 1918. He was a grandson of Emperor Wilhelm I through his father's side and a grandson of the English Queen Victoria through his mother’s side. Wilhelm was the eldest son of Frederick III and his wife Victoria of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, daughter of the British Queen Victoria. The last German Emperor, Wilhelm II, was born as Frederick Wilhelm Albert Victor in Potsdam on January 27 1859.

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