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In 1912, Ernest Au­gus­tus, the wealthy heir to the title of Duke of Cum­ber­land, came to the Berlin court to thank Em­peror Wil­helm for hav­ing Crown Prince Wil­helm and Prince Eitel Friedrich at­tend the fu­neral of his brother, Prince George William. While in Berlin, Ernest Au­gus­tus met Vic­to­ria Louise, and the two be­came smit­ten with ea...

The new duke and duchess of Brunswick moved to the cap­i­tal of Brunswick and began their fam­ily with the birth of their el­dest son, Prince Ernest Au­gus­tus, less than a year after their wedding. They had four fur­ther chil­dren: Prince George William (b. 1915), Princess Fred­er­ica(b. 1917), Prince Chris­t­ian Oscar (b. 1919), and Prince Welf H...

Sev­eral of Vic­to­ria Louise's broth­ers were early mem­bers of the Nazi party, in­clud­ing for­mer Crown Prince Wil­helm and Prince Au­gust Wil­helm. While Ernest Au­gus­tus never of­fi­cially joined the party, he do­nated funds and was close to sev­eral leaders. As a for­mer British prince, Ernest Au­gus­tus as well as Vic­to­ria Louise de­sired...

After the war, Vic­to­ria Louise spent much of her time at­tend­ing pub­lic events in Lower Sax­ony, sup­port­ing palace restora­tion pro­jects, high-so­ci­ety par­ties, hunt­ing, and the show­ing of horses. She also spent time help­ing with phil­an­thropic causes, for in­stance sup­port­ing a hol­i­day es­tate for low-in­come children. Her hus­ban...

Ap­prox­i­mate trans­la­tions of the ti­tles into Eng­lish are given in paren­the­ses. 1. Ein Leben als Tochter des Kaisers("Life as Daughter of the Emperor") 2. Im Strom der Zeit("In the Stream of Time") 3. Bilder der Kaiserzeit("Pictures from the Imperial Period") 4. Vor 100 Jahren("100 Years Ago") 5. Die Kronprinzessin("The Crown Princess") 6. D...

David Jones records in his prose-poem In Paren­the­sis a frag­ment of song from the West­ern Front – "I want Big Willie's luv-ly daugh­ter" – im­ply­ing (as Jones notes) "that the ob­ject of the British Ex­pe­di­tioninto France was to enjoy the charms of the Em­peror's daughter". Named for the princess: 1. SMS Victoria Louise, protected cruiserlaun...