This man posed like Louis XIV for an 1890 portrait, which was seen as tantamount to a declaration of war by a French minister.
This man posed like Louis XIV for an 1890 portrait, which was seen as tantamount to a declaration of war by a French minister. He also had a collection of historical military uniforms in which he was fond of posing for photographs. Like many Hohenzollerns, he detested his father and emulated his grandfather, who was sometimes known as Barbablanca. He had an aggressive personality and was reported to have kicked his cousins, the future Nicholas I of Russia and George V of England, when they were young. For 10 points name this emperor who dismissed Otto von Bismarck and got Germany involved in World War I.
This man posed like Louis XIV for an 1890 portrait, which was seen as tantamount to a declaration of war by a French minister.
{Wilhelm II}