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Wilhelm II
Wilhelm II, the last German emperor.
Wilhelm II was the eldest child of Crown Prince Frederick—who later reigned as Emperor Frederick III—and Victoria, the eldest child of Britain’s Queen Victoria.12
His father was a war hero with liberal political tendencies, while his mother, who remained strongly devoted to England, attempted to raise him with the outlook of a 19th-century British Liberal. This parental influence created a lasting tension in Wilhelm II, as he struggled to reconcile his mother's liberal values with the traditional Prussian martial ideals he felt compelled to embody.12