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GERMAN COURT. ~ During the year that elapsed between the spring of 1887 and the spring of 1888 the Imperial Court of Berlin was the Scene of mysterious happenings which have since kept the whole world guessing. William the Great, the first Emperor of the federated German States, was slowly dying. The heir to the throne, the Crown Prince Frederick, was by all odds the most popular man in the empire. In the Franco-Prussian War he had been a great hero, worshipped by his soldiers, who had affectionately dubbed him “Unser (Our) Fritz.” Like most really great men, Crown Prince Frederick was democratic. Yet, in person, he was far mpre impressive than even his father, William I. Between him and his father there was an estrangement, as there was also between him and his son, the present ex-Kaiser. A dozen years before the FrancoPrussian War, Frederick had married Queen Victoria’s eldest daughter, the Princess Victoria.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23082, 7 January 1937, Page 12
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