MOTHER OF EX-KAISER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20086, 25 October 1928, Page 13

MOTHER OF EX-KAISER.

SON'S CONDUCT REPROBATED. PUBLICATION OF LETTERS. Australian and N.Z. Press Association. LONDON. Oct. SB. Sir Frederick Ponsonby. the Treasurer to the King, and formerly Assistant Private Secretary to Queeu Victoria, has edited the letters of the late Empress Frederick of Germany, which he smuggled into England in response to her dying request in 1901. She said: "I do not want a soul to know, certainly not Willie" (meaning the ex-Kaiser). The letters reveal Wilhelm as a man who opposed, ignored and forsook his mother. She wrote to Queen Victoria of his " treachery, want of respect to his father, and insolence to me." On another occasion, referring to a strike of miners, she wrote: "I am more than horrified at William's speech, in which he told the men that if they had anything to do with the Social Democrats he would have them all shot down. 1 think such words, in the mouth of a Sovereign, and of so young and inexperienced a man, are most brutal and unbecoming." Princess Victoria, the Princess Royal, daughter of Queen Victoria, married in 1858' the Crown Prince William of Prussia, who afterwards was for 99 days in 1838 the second Herman Emperor. The marriage was arranged to take place, and did take place, in London. A suggestion was made from Berlin that the Princess Royal should go to Berlin to bo married. Queen Victoria was indignant, and wrote to ono of her Ministers "that "it is not every day that the eldest daughter of the Queen of England is married.