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Wilhelm II and Nicholas II were third cousins (both were great-great-grandsons of Paul I of Russia) as well as being second cousins once removed (both were descended from Frederick William III of Prussia) and Wilhelm was a first cousin of Nicholas’s wife, Alix of Hesse and the eldest grandson of Queen Victoria.
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany was born on the 27th January 1859 to Frederick III and Victoria, Princess Royal, who was the sister of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom (George’s father). This means that he is first cousins with King George V. Wilhelm and Nicholas were not first cousins, but they were third cousins.
Was Kaiser Wilhelm related to the British royal family?
The links between European royal families is well known. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany was the grandson of the UK’s Queen Victoria (on the throne 1837-1901) and cousin to King George V (1910-36). (In fact, by 1914, the royal family had had German names for two hundred years – since the first Hanover king, George I).
Is Prince William related to Kaiser Wilhelm?
Wilhelm II was the son of Prince Frederick William of Prussia and Victoria, Princess Royal. His father was the son of Wilhelm I, German Emperor, and his mother was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom….Wilhelm II, German Emperor.
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The German Kaiser, meanwhile, was Queen Victoria’s grandson through Victoria’s daughter, also named Victoria, who had married Germany’s Frederick III. In fact, Wilhelm’s ties with the British Royal Family were far more than a mere matter of genetics.
He was named after his paternal cousin, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He has four older siblings: Princess Alexia (b. 1965), Crown Prince Pavlos (b. 1967), Prince Nikolaos (b.
How was Prince Philip related to Kaiser Wilhelm?
He was related to Kaiser Wilhelm II by marriage. His uncle Constantine’s wife was the Kaiser’s sister. He was often known as “Philip the Greek”. Though Philip was born in Greece, as was his father Prince Andrew and his grandfather King George, none of them were Greek by blood.