The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-11-11
THE KAISER'S CHILDREN
Six Sons and a Daughter in the Inn
perial Family.

Six Sons and a Daughter in the In
perial Family.
Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, born
May 6, 1882, crown prince of the Ger
man empire and OF Prussia, was mar
ried June s, 1905, to Princess Cecelie,
who was born September 20, 1856.
She was a daughter OF the late Fried
rich Franz III of Meckienburg-
Schwerin. Their children are Prince
Wilhelm Friedrich, born July'4. 1905;
Prince Ludwig Ferdinand, born No
vember 9, 1907: Prince Hubertus. born
September 80. 1909, and Prince
George. born December 10. 1911.
Prince Wilhelm Eitel-Freidrich, the
kaiSerS second son, was born July 7,
1888, and married. February -, 1906.
Princess Sophie Charlotte, daughter of
the Grand Duke Friedrich August of
Oldenburg. His wife is the best look
ing and richest of Williams daughters
in-law. Prince Eitel Fritz is the fat
boy of the German royal family and
as a child was the handsomest and
the idol Of the German people. Since
he has grown up, however. he has lost
some of his good looks. being now
rather short and stout. The princess
is four years older than the prince and
they have no children The prince has
been with the army of the Meuse and
had headquarters at Liege. Core
spondents at Petrograd recently re-
ported that Germany was pushing his
candidacy for the throne of Hungary.
Prince Eitel Friedrich was mentioned
! IN 1915 as prospective ruler OF
Lithuania. In July. 1916, the prince
escaped 4 bomb which a French avia-
tor dropped in the garden at Chateau
Fretoy, where he was digging to re-
duce his corpulence
The third son of the kaiser Adel-
BERT born July IA. 1884, is known as
the sailor prince of Germany" A
Few weeks before the war he was con-
templating a visit to the United States
He was married TO Princess Adelaide
OF Saxe-Meiningen, August 81, 1914.
Prince Adelbert has served chiefly in
the German navy and is navigation
OFFICER of the cruiser Coeln. He has
written book entitled with My Bat
talon in the Front Line Trenches" 1t
! deals with his experiences as COM
| brugge
Prince August Wilhelm, the fourth
son, born January 90. 1887, was mar
RED to Princess Alexandria Victoria of
Schleswig-H olstein, October 20, 1908.
rheir only child. Prince Alexander
ferdinand, was born December 90.
1917. When a student at Bonn, August
Wilhelm was boycotted because he
you'd not get drunk and break win
COWS. He was severely injured in a
motor car accident wreck on the bat
tlefield in November. In 1916 he was
mentioned as an assistant to Won Bliss
ing In Belgium and later in connection
| with throne of Courland.
Prince Oscar, the fifth son, was born
July u. 1883. He is the democratic
member of the family and recently
emphasized his independence by seek
ing bride who was not royal. On the
second day of August 1914. he mar
| ried Countess Ina Bassewitz, daughter
OF Count Bassewitz Levetzow. He has
been forced to leave the army because
OF heart trouble due to his exertion in
the field at Verdun October 3, 1914,
In March of this year the Finnish gov
eminent asked the kaiser to appoint
Oscar king of Finland.
Joachim. the youngest son, was bosn
december II, 1890. He was wounded
| IN the thigh by a shrapnel fragment
while serving with his regiment be-
tween Meaux and Montmirau Short.
ly before he was wounded, he was dec
GRATED with the iron cross at Namur.
The prince was proud of his wound
and wrote that the day he fell was the
| finest day he had lived. He married
Princess Marie Augustine of Anhalt
In March, 1916.
Princess Victoria Louise, the only
daughter of the family. vas born Sep
| TENDER IS, 1892. and was married May
q, 1913. to Prince Ernst August of
Cumberland. duke of Brunswick.
March IS, 1914, she presented (mper.
| or William his sixth grandson. King
| George and Queen Mary of Great
/ Britain were guests at her wedding.
| When Prince Ernst took the throne
of Brunswick, November I, 1913, he
promised answering loyalty to the
! German empire, but refused the kais-
er's request that he renounce his pre-
tensions to the throne of Hanover. to
which he is the rightful heir. In the
tilt between the kaiser and Prince
| Ernest. the princess took the side OF
her husband. The kaiser. wishing the
happiness of his daughter. gave his
son-in-law his own way. He might
/ bluff England and France, but could
MT bluff his own son-in-law-
The Kaiscr's Fortune.
| The following estimate of the per-
sona1 fortune of the German emperor
appeared in The London Daily News
| of July 20 as special Paris CORE
spondence:
Admitting that William II inherited
something under the will of Queen
| Victoria. that he has saved money
and that his INVESTMENTS have proved
| lucrative, his fortune at the beginning
of the war may have been about 2 Il
| to ) millions sterling But with the
Exception of Krupp his investments
| have all deprecated enormously.
| Cold and HeaFtfess.
German mothers who wrote to the
emperor of the deaths of their sons
! killed in battle ELECTED from him nc
word of sympathy: He regarded thaiI
| deaths as glorious Yet his own SIX
sons, tho holding high commands
were so protected that the imperial
| family stood practically alone in Ger
MANY in wardinP off the clutches oil