The Kaiser's daughter, Victoria Luise of Prussia

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(the reference to Friedrich II's music at 1:01 concerns an old version of the clip)
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Vittoria Luisa di Prussia, la figlia dell'ultimo Kaiser.
Può sembrare strano che la stessa persona che ha compilato diverse playlist di canti anarchici (il sottoscritto...) carichi ora su You Tube le romantiche foto di una principessa, Vittoria Luisa di Prussia. Peggio ancora, attraverso di lei questo clip vorrebbe essere un piccolo omaggio a suo padre, il Kaiser Guglielmo II, che senza ombra di dubbio fu antidemocratico, nazionalista, militarista, ecc. Com'è possibile? Il motivo sta nel fatto che l'Imperatore di sua iniziativa ignorando l'opposizione del Cancelliere Bismarck volle andare incontro alle esigenze dei lavoratori. Per la prima volta nella storia dell'umanità, a partire dal 1883-1889 i lavoratori tedeschi poterono godere di pensione, assistenza sanitaria, assicurazione contro gli infortuni e l'invalidità. Negli altri paesi le richieste dei lavoratori incontrarono tutt'altra accoglienza. Pensate all'Haymarket Massacre di Chicago (che poi diede origine alla festa del 1° maggio), alle torture medievali che vennero riesumate contro i lavoratori nella Spagna di Cánovas (poi giustiziato da Michele Angiolillo), alla carneficina provocata dalle cannonate del generale Bava Beccaris tra i lavoratori che a Milano protestavano contro l'aumento del prezzo del pane. Umberto I approvò la strage, anzi come ricompensa di tutto quel sangue premiò il macellaio piemontese con la nomina a senatore, un'infamia che Gaetano Bresci non lasciò impunita. Gaetano Bresci. Ma del resto c'è un abisso fra i Savoia, che rimasero sempre dei poveri zoticoni, e gli Hohenzollern la Casa regnante di Prussia e Germania che fra i suoi membri contò personaggi del calibro di Federico il Grande (Friedrich der Grosse), fra l'altro autore della bella musica che state ascoltando.
Qualcuno fa notare che Guglielmo II si comportò così per timore di una rivoluzione. Eh già! Invece negli altri paesi il welfare arrivò (quando arrivò) per la generosità cristiana dei governi e la filantropia degli industriali!
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Gli imperatori di Germania ebbero sette figli. Vittoria Luisa fu l'ultima e l'unica femmina, divenne perciò la cocca di casa. Per di più aveva un magnifico carattere che traspare anche dalle foto, dove è quasi sempre sorridente. Tra i fratelli, Vittoria Luisa era particolarmente legata a Joachim e a Oskar, i più vicini d'età.
Vittoria Luisa (in tedesco per Vittoria viene usata sia la grafia "Viktoria" che "Victoria") si fidanzò con Ernst August Hannover, duca di Braunschweig (a volte anche in italiano si usa il nome inglese, Brunswick). Nelle foto vediamo i due fidanzati a passeggio in un parco, scortati dal fratello Oskar. Il matrimonio fu particolarmente fastoso, anche perché segnava il riavvicinamento fra le casate degli Hohenzollern e degli Hannover, divise da un odio antico. Fu l'ultimo fuoco d'artificio della Belle Époque... era il 24 maggio 1913, e la guerra si avvicinava terribile. Dopo il matrimonio, gli sposi andarono a vivere nell'immenso Braunschweig Schloss (foto a colori d'epoca), che andò distrutto nel corso della II Guerra Mondiale. Nel 2007 è stata fedelmente ricostruita la sola facciata, che però nasconde un centro commerciale!
Formalmente Vittoria Luisa era comandante in capo del 2° reggimento dei Leib-Husaren "Totenkopf" (Ussari "Testa di Morto", chiamati così per il lugubre ornamento del copricapo). Sua cognata Cecilia, moglie del fratello Guglielmo -principe ereditario comandava invece un reggimento di Dragoni. In una foto le due ragazze sono insieme al Kaiser e agli ufficiali del 2° reggimento Ussari. In un'altra foto Vittoria Luisa, a cavallo, chiacchiera con i figli del principe ereditario, che sembrano un po' intimiditi dalla Testa di Morto.
Viktoria Luise ed Ernst August ebbero cinque figli. L'unica figlia, Friedrike, sposò Paolo di Grecia, che poi divenne Re degli Elleni. Doña Sofia, l'attuale regina di Spagna, è figlia di Paolo e Friederike, e perciò nipote di Vittoria Luisa.

[@kokopelli0815]

My father always told the story how he and my aunt met her as a small boy. After WW 2 she was staying in Marienburg Castle south of Hanover, my father is from a small village nearby. The local farmers would occasionally send extra rations of fresh meat to the castle. There was strict food rationing, and to avoid trouble with the allied authorities, the children would take the food to the castle. It was quite a way to walk and my dad says Vicoria Luise received him and his sister and got them a cup of hot chocolate - also rare in those days.

[@jimgordon6629]

Very interesting, but I don’t have the slightest idea how good a person she.was. She seemed to enjoy wearing the deaths head a little too much. Her fathers concern for workers is counterbalanced by his sanctioning of atrocities against Belgian civilians. Apparently Victoria’s marriage was pretty happy.

[@AG26498]

@@jimgordon6629 she was a true tomboy. Instead of learning how to play piano she wanted to know how to use a rifle. Instead of the girly girl stuff she was interested in technology especially when it came to military stuff. I don't know if this is true but it is said that August von mackensen became one her mentors because she asked her father time and time again. She always wanted to be at the frontlines leading armies just like her brothers.

[@RomanumChristum]

@@jimgordon6629 Wow you really are out of touch with foreign meanings aren’t you.

[@fruitypuffpie1585]

Interesting

[@fischgaming8685]

Very interesting

[@abdullaalsulaiti1803]

Fun fact: The kaiser daughter lived till the 80s with the age of 88 years

[@rhysnichols8608]

88? Such a special German number 😘

[@bubble4072]

@@rhysnichols8608 oh nein

[@Charlesputnam-bn9zy]

@@rhysnichols8608 BOOM BOOM

[@bret9741]

She was beautiful and so was the family in general.

[@marycahill546]

At least the old European royals had a sense of duty to their country. What do billionaires care about nowadays? Only themselves and money!

[@heronimousbrapson863]

Mary Cahill Billionaires have always only cared about such things. The wealthy of today are no different than the 19th century robber barons. Also, many royals were not of the country they ruled. The British royal family, for example, is mostly German.

[@krissol3881]

The elites ALWAYS worked with bankers. Now however the bankers are the elites and the aristocracy is permitted exist in exchange for service to the new masters.

[@lavrentichudakoff2519]

​@@heronimousbrapson863 House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. They changed their name to Windsor after WWI because of anti-German sentiment. Before that it was the Hanovarians, all German princes.

[@Ckern182]

Fredrick the Great considered himself the first servant of the state

[@lanthanum5747]

So True !!!

[@TubeHammel]

I greeted her when my father introduced me. I must have been 7 or 8 years old. He told me later that she was Princess Viktoria Luise. I found that hard to believe because she was a very old lady. She was very charming to me and admired my courteous bow. The occasion was a horse jumping competition in Dested near Brunswick on the estate of the von Veltheim family. Much later in my life did I learn who she was. She was probably the most important person I ever met.

[@markusbuelow7871]

Dresden ?

[@TubeHammel]

@@markusbuelow7871 No, Dested near Braunschweig.

[@markusbuelow7871]

@@TubeHammel ach so ! Ich Wùnschte mir immer als kind - das ich diesen Mann kennen zu lehrnen - vom Bùlow zu dir - schau mal hòr mal - search -->:" Dr.Ludwig - wir rufen deine Wòlfe ."" Husssarrr der geist der germanen - Ist der geist der Freiheit (Heller ?)

[@thelton100]

Man! She’s absolutely gorgeous.

[@bhutan5196]

@Bernard de Fontaines that "evil psychopath" trait reminds me of you considering your idiotic statements, you dense cabbage. for once in your pathetic life pick up a fucking history book and read it, learn something for a change.

[@zeandro6403]

@@bhutan5196 gg someone reportet him

[@fan2jnrc]

And her daughter, Frederika, became Queen of Greece, and had a daughter, Sophie, who became Queen of Spain, and the mother of the actual King of Spain Felipe VI.

[@deisk2707]

This still continues, until now right?

[@dennisroyhall121]

Neither of whom inherited her beauty nor indeed nor her grace.

[@grahammckay6067]

l just fell in love with a girl l never heard of who lived in an a era long before my time

[@conor9848]

graham mckay what do you have you can offer her!

[@ravkoleavikk8577]

@@conor9848 will you let me be her husband if I want

[@conor9848]

General Kyle west she is already married

[@ravkoleavikk8577]

@@conor9848 welp

[@ravkoleavikk8577]

graham mckay sadly that she is dead : (

[@Bream243]

She was a very beautiful woman.

[@davecoronado1706]

she was a beauty

[@catholiccrusader5328]

She was one beautiful woman...

[@target1529]

German Girl!!!

[@hiimryan2388]

*S H R I M P*

[@MichaelWinsorxfrdmn]

She was a great granddaughter of Queen Victoria

[@CoxJoxSox]

Her granddaughter now is a bird researcher - you can see her in a TED talk

[@tsar_zo8007]

Link?

[@alexandarvoncarsteinzarovi3723]

Did not know a woman like that could make the Death Head Hussars uniform look good,

[@bobwitkowski6410]

She was so beautiful.

[@SanitysVoid]

She was.

[@andreasbonaparte8171]

Yeah, she is real life waifu

[@andreasbonaparte8171]

@Famous Austrian Painter I'm not weeb, I'm Wehraboo. I love imperial Japan more

[@andreasbonaparte8171]

@@launa5660 Deutsche Qualität

[@MrLuddis]

The best video about here. Very good. Thank you very much. A sweet tribute to our last imperial princess.

[@michaelmax5161]

Beautiful... 😍 The times, when german children had german names!

[@Cate7451]

There is a return to old names. Many beautiful ones from medieval Europe. It is sad when they disappear.

[@michaelmax5161]

@@Cate7451 you are right, cate! There are so many of them. Forgotten, not modern enough, with a 'wrong' historical background... It is sad, for real...

[@tuarchep3964]

Shit

[@michaelmax5161]

@@tuarchep3964 😂

[@gustavabensberg4260]

Welp my name's old (latin) and i'm german..

[@cw4karlschulte661]

How lovely and elegant a young woman!

[@Edmonton-of2ec]

Interesting fact about her, she was married in 1913 to Ernst Augustus of Hanover, and became the Duchess of Brunswick for 5 years. Her wedding was the largest gathering of German monarchs since 1871 and one of the last major social events involving European royalty before the start of WWI, which occurred fourteen months after her wedding

[@GiorgioFH]

They say that her wedding was the last moment of the Belle Époque. Here on YT there is a wonderful clip about the funeral of Wilhelm II. It was the real final act of an age. The contrast between the Pickelhauben (probably it was their last public appearance) and the vulgar Nazi uniforms made visual the abyssal difference between the old world and the horrible Third Reich. Look at the desperate face of Generalfeldmarschall August von Mackensen (the man with white beard and hair, in the front row), well aware of being a survivor of a past epoch, uncomfortable near the goons of the Austrian plumber. Let us remember that Wilhelm II was a vehement opponent of the Nazis and after the German invasion of Holland he lived as a prisoner. Here is the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eZmvaIikrL1_na8

[@alexchuan2309]

She was so beautiful 😍

[@reddyforlenny9389]

@@maxace1078 nah with a military uniform like that she was definatly a queen in her own right

[@kaiserwilhelmiivonhohenzol6211]

My daughter , I missed you

[@jamildacalos6381]

first

[@sketchye5943]

Sad

[@andreasbonaparte8171]

Lol Kaiser lol

[@riiariia1551]

Beautiful Royal family.

[@arthurrobey4945]

Heartbreaking. May I honour my ancestors by exceeding their magnificence.

[@nikkid4890]

Atrhur Robey Amen. Ill join you in that. My ancestors too...

[@kkvsn7294]

Just stay away from Russia.

[@arthurrobey4945]

@@kkvsn7294 Russia wasn't the target, Stalin was. Lots of trouble could have been averted if he had been handed over to the Weremacht.

[@peterniemeier7959]

This was enchanting, thank you very much.

[@elenalabis3460]

5:06......she is wonderfull!

[@ratstograts]

Thank you for posting this video. I really enjoyed viewing these photos and reading your titles.

[@GiorgioFH]

ratstograts Thanks for your kind comment

[@georgschmidt4670]

A beautiful lady.

[@doctoranxiety670]

There is this girl in my school that looks a scary lot like this princess, but when I tell her she will probably think it is a stupid flirting trick

[@thebeautifulones5436]

When the rulers of Germany were still german

[@mnessenche]

Cope 😂

[@christinaburton9297]

Her daughter, Frederika, married Viktoria's cousin Paul of Greece. Frederika's daughter Sophie married the King of Spain. Their first son Ernst was the father of the current Ernst August of Hanover. Their second son Wilhelm was the second husband of Prince Phillip's sister Sophie. Sophie's first husband was Christoph of Hesse, another cousin of Viktoria. All of them descendants of Queen Victoria. Her husband was the son of Queen Alexandra's sister Thyra. Victoria and Ernst were third cousins once removed in descent from George III.

[@valenrn8657]

UK's King George VI has provided Ernest Augustus's and Victoria Luise's safety after WW2 against Soviet's East Germany.

[@dennisroyhall121]

Neither her daughter nor her granddaughter mentioned inherited her grace or beauty. I would with ease venture to say she was the most beautiful and gracefully sincere woman for many a century, perhaps even of all time. What she was like, manner wise, from day to day, for instance what she felt and observed as regards the abject horrors her people wrought upon the world I have no idea, except that I should like to believe her spirit was on the right side of gentle humanity. Certainly this lady was blessed with winning eyes and smiling expression. I can only surmise that in her later years what tragic news, events and human suffering that she could not avoid knowledge of must have brought her deep sadness and distress, affecting her countenance. Quite frankly, I marvel at her beauty and grace...and feel certain she deserved all the admiration and honours that she must have received. Thank you so much for making these photographic scenes available for us to appreciate. It would be nice to read comment of her life.

[@Cuktisntfunny]

Prettier than a lot of girls nowadays

[@ii7236]

Yea

[@TheBestDrunkDriver]

I agree

[@soulchaeyoung]

I'm a girl and i have to agree loll

[@ashraarrafi5810]

Yup. Natural beauty unlike present day with heavily edited portrait. Hopefully there's a girl that as beautiful as her today.

[@bonniemagpie1552]

Beautifully put together and so easy on the ear. Thankyou from Australia.

[@raylocke282]

Very nice video,very professional.

[@hotcootaful]

That was terrific, thanks for that. What a different world it was before the Great War.

[@vulcanswork]

How interesting. Thanks for putting it together and posting.

[@peterrackelman3294]

Hochverehrt und geliebt unsere Kaiserlichehoheit Herzogin von Braunschweig und Lüneburg.Einmal durfte ich Sie in meinem Leben mal beim Einkaufen in Hannover sehen.Ich werde Sie nie vergessen

[@Sobieski_IV_Emperor_Gods_mercy]

Wunderbar, schön, edel und gut. Ist so.

[@msjannd4]

Beautifully done thank you. First time I've read about her. She was a beauty!

[@kentuckylady2990]

She was quite stunning.

[@noor-ru9bq]

An EXQUISITE beauty lost in time....

[@hanzo1826]

She looks very attractive in her Totenkopf Hussar uniform.

[@sobelou]

Beautiful tribute!!

[@IrishAnnie]

She was so beautiful as a child, young woman, wife, and mother. Stunning.

[@Celisar1]

Ann Soldano Well, have you seen her father?? I had no idea he was that good looking!

[@heartbreakstudiola154]

Thank you for posting this. These are my ancestors its was really nice to see photos and read information. Thank you.

[@rogerlibby14613]

Her eyes look like a family member-- but she can't be any type of cousin as our family ancestors were Stewarts.

[@aardvark1956]

You did a fine job with your English; no apologies needed. I appreciate hearing all sides of history when they are presented in a civil tone. We can all learn from this.

[@GiorgioFH]

Chris E thanks!

[@michaelverbakel7632]

She was the daughter in law of Princess Thyra, the 3rd daughter of King Christian IX of Denmark. She married her only son who lived to adulthood. Thyra was sister to Queen Alexandra of England, Queen Elizabeth's great grandmother. Also she was sister to Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, Czar Nicholas II's mother. He was the last Czar of Russia. Her brother was King George I of Greece, the late Prince Philip's grandfather. He was also Greece's longest serving ruler , almost 50 years on the throne.

[@johanna6050]

Hard to find anyone living who is considered, "royalty," without Queen Victoria or King Christian as an ancestor.

[@albertschultz7151]

Very nicely edited and most interesting. Thank you

[@Kyleinasailing]

If anyone is interested, Anne Topham, who was the last Governess for Viktoria Luise before war broke out in 1914, wrote a book 'Memories of the Kaiser's court' and is to be read as an ebook, free, by Gutenberg Ebooks. Google it and it comes up.

[@tankgirl2074]

Vielen Dank! looking forward to reading it :)

[@slotuck]

Reading comments by those who never cracked open a history book is very entertaining.

[@egparis18]

No need to apologise for your English. Thank you for the upload.

[@johanna6050]

To me, Princess Viktoria Luise looks like an attractive version of her great grandmother, Queen Victoria. Lol

[@brianbelton3605]

Yep, as if touched, gently, by a magic wand of beauty!

[@SukhoyBoy4113]

She is a woman of class and beauty of course.

[@kingweaslcy5067]

Viktoria Luise looks more like her mother, Kaiserin Augusta Viktoria. Wilhelm's mother, Kaiserin Victoria looks like a clone of Queen Victoria.

[@smokedoliver1]

She was quite beautiful

[@jukeboxhero1649]

We are such a simple boring pack of mongrels now.

[@DrCruel]

This is why we cannot have nice things.

[@VolumedMusicMan]

She was very beautiful...

[@jorgebersabe293]

Viktoria Louise of Prussia was also the great-grandmother of Felipe VI of Spain, also he is descended from both sides from Queen Victoria: -Patrilineal side: Felipe VI is the great-grandson of Victoria Eugenia of Battenberg, herself a granddaughter of Queen Victoria. -Matrilineal side: Felipe VI is the great-grandson of Viktoria Louise of Prussia, herself a great-granddaughter of Queen Victoria. -In other words, Felipe VI is related to figures like Isabella II of England and Franz Wilhelm of Prussia(great-grandson of Wilhelm II, grandson of Prince Joachim.).

[@pak3ton]

This i what i need to know to play better crusaders king.

[@rebeccaherschman3069]

She was quite beautiful, then again the Kaiser himself was probably one of the most attractive out of Victoria's clan.

[@jerryb3838]

The world would look different today if Wilhelms birth had not caused his withered arm and the psychological damage it produced.

[@rebeccaherschman3069]

@@jerryb3838 Absolutely! I have always wondered what the map of Europe would look like if he would have been born without the disability

[@johnreed9050]

I would smash that hun ass in a heartbeat

[@rolandfink2537]

@@johnreed9050 Shut up Anglo Saxon

[@rickster100100]

@@johnreed9050 I agree.

[@BobSmith-dk8nw]

Thank you. That was excellent. .

[@johnnyscifi]

Shes so beautiful!!!

[@xmilkx1897]

Damm my daughter looking good in that uniforms

[@s1mplem4gic58]

Kaiser, I think you need to chill. That is your daughter after all

[@s1mplem4gic58]

@Elber Staff lmao if you need to chill. You being on this video alone takes away your ability to comment anything like that

[@notalemon2899]

@Elber Staff jeez calm down don’t need to be all rude

[@niceyoureadmycomment323]

@Elber Staff *Allow me introduce myself*

[@heru-deshet359]

What a stunningly beautiful woman.

[@kathybrisky]

Her nose was very unique.

[@geezer652]

Beauty, regretfully, is only skin deep.

[@GunnersRange]

A beautiful woman by any standards!

[@Kevin-mx1vi]

Lovely looking girl. Warmth in her eyes and peace in her face. Got herself a good looking husband too.

[@CalebVonGames]

Sadly she got married with him and not me XD

[@humptydumpty3345]

I’m a simp for Victoria Luise

[@andreasbonaparte8171]

Can't blame you

[@bosnjakball]

Me too

[@bosnjakball]

@@nearhos3106 u be spitting straight facts right there

[@andreasbonaparte8171]

@@nearhos3106 true

[@aleksiiivari4604]

Same bro

[@ozzmanzz]

I had no idea about this part of history. Thanks for posting.

[@Zhonguoria]

Victoria Luisa was quite beautiful

[@sayyer10]

This is very touching. Thank you. I wish the world could witness the same growing up life for the 4 beautiful daughters of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia but they were brutally executed in their teens around the same time.....

[@justjoe942]

I enjoyed that very much, thank you.

[@rachelsturm3312]

She was very beautiful!

[@berniek-1713]

Magnifiques images d'une magnifique princesse....

[@earlofeastwood777]

Just think of what kind of world we could be enjoying now if the First World War hadn't happened, all those men who died in the trenches going on to live out the fruitful lives, with standard's maintained and all manor and aspects of all society's around the world improved as time went by in peace 😔 .

[@earlofeastwood777]

All those brave but doomed souls who perished in the 1st World War were murder for the sole enrichment and empowerment of a small cabal off psychopathic genocidal bankster mafia and that fact will be revealed into the sun light of life for all to see and understand so that true history can be understood and there sacrifice can truely be honoured. God Bless Them All. AMEN🙏.

[@everlasting_me]

@@earlofeastwood777 I would want to mention that if not for ww1, and thus ww2, we most likely would not have the technology nor machines we have today. Naturally some other war would've eventually happened and thus the burst of industrialization and tech would've begun again, but that, possibly, would've happened much later on and thus what we have today would be much later on in time. :P

[@larrybaker9924]

A rare beauty.

[@ColRAPR]

Outstanding !!

[@hansschwarz6134]

Dankeschön, gut!

[@DasLamm68]

1:17 and 6:16 - omg is she pretty

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

The music sounds contemporary. He was ahead of his time. I enjoyed it.

[@GiorgioFH]

ehm... it is contemporary... please take a look at the end of the notes. I had to change music for copyright reasons. Bye

[@anvilbrunner.2013]

Ok Thanks.

[@dr.barrycohn5461]

The world will never lack pretty women. You can count on that.

[@servantprince]

pygmies think their women are beautiful. how do you judge beauty ?

[@sunilenurb349]

Great video. Very well done. Most of my favourite historic persons in there.

[@dominicthedestroyer8489]

Favorite

[@sunilenurb349]

@@dominicthedestroyer8489 fr? Favourite is British English and favorite is American but none is wrong

[@oaklandfritz]

I admire Prussian tradition and military code. Duty, honor, country. Mac Arthur got it from Bismark.

[@bogjesrbin484]

Prussian Revivalist Germanic race is now ruling the world no?

[@bogjesrbin484]

Prussian Revivalist I mean nations with Germanic origin, for example English people.

[@inurmomsbedroom123]

@Prussian Revivalist Can you shut up? It wasn't the fucking celts that destroyed Germanic hegemony. Germans can thank themselves for that. Bad strategy bad diplomacy bad leadership. I'm not even talking about moustache man.

[@myboyz9391]

She was beautiful

[@shastealyomeal]

No booty

[@annasolanis]

Beautiful pictures.

[@doyleperkins4916]

"Apologies for my English," that is, YOUR English! Are you kidding? Your English is elegant. Cheers.

[@johnbuxton6009]

It's a bi gone age it's fantastic to see them. They are part of our royal family. Good or bad it's entwined in our history. 👍

[@chtistiantettinek5199]

Thank you for this beautiful Video! Coming from an old bohemian aristocrat family it found the way into my heard. An old idiot like me was raised in the sence that aristocrats have the duty to help the people, be there for your fellow woman and man. Thats how we should live! I still am ashamed of the austro-hungarian Kaiser Franz Joseph I, how he acted and started first worldwar. It should not have ended that way! Our Kronprinz Rudolf would have been different, would not have distroyed the old Europa. But thats just my opinion, one might say, typical for a sentimental old idiot like me. We don't learn from the past, so i am affraid, this beautiful world is going to be destroyed by us humans one sad day. Greetings and blessings to all of you, happy 2020, lets make the best of it. Freedom, peace and happyness to everyone!!!

[@GiorgioFH]

Wise words! Unfortunately, Franz Josef fell into a trap, dragging down Germany with him. The great English economist J.M. Keynes was official UK representative to the peace conference of Versailles. His book “The Economic Consequences of Peace” (1919) contains not only perfect prophecies about WW2, but also (between the lines, since right after the war a H.M’s loyal subject could not say more) the real reason of WW1: the over-development of German economy. I will dedicate a next clip to this subject. Many thanks for your passionate comment and happy 2020!

[@iggybarrato9009]

Happy 2020 to you as well and I wish to hear what Germans and other Europeans think of Brexit.

[@sonjaseegers8886]

Iggy Barrato was

[@d.a.g.c961]

She looks like the future spanish queen.

[@s1mplem4gic58]

@King George VI Is this for real?

[@geethikaa]

@@s1mplem4gic58 yes, victoria louise’s daughter frederica of hanover is the current spanish king’s maternal grandmother.

[@richardlwilliams9352]

She was wonderful, pity she did not marry into the British line, the closer we are to Germany the better for all Saxon's one and all

[@Vladimir123_]

so british is german?

[@rogerlynch5279]

@@Vladimir123_ Yes, my grandmother stil a hard core Prussian had watched every year on TV COLOUR THE TROOPS that big birthday parade for Queen Elisabeth II: mainly because of the close family relationship to the Prussian Crown and our of admiration for the Queen of course Just mentioned as an example of the value many Pussians still have/had, my grandmother died years ago, for the Royal British House.

[@jasinacusaurealius5473]

learn a little history, English is actually a Germanic language.

[@valenrn8657]

@@Vladimir123_ Read en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanic_languages

[@BlueStories8338]

The Last Kaiser...

[@nobody9126]

Farewell old friend

[@shastealyomeal]

Kaiserin

[@hanspeterhansen5783]

There is hardly a royal house in Europe that is not connected with Prussia or Germany - example: Katharina the great of russia (Herzogin von Holstein-Gottorf), Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip (Windsor = Saxe-Coburg and Gotha and Mountbatton = Battenberg). The melody of the English Hymn is from Prussia "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" (Hail the Winners), ditto the FIRST but "unofficial" Hymn of the USA "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", the Hawaiian hymn Hawai'i pono'ī and "Hail, Columbia") and the Dutch hymn points to German Blood already at the beginning of the first stanza. ... I`m proud to be a german (The land of the greatest heros and the most peaceful country in europe).

[@GiorgioFH]

Fatal error, sorry! Everybody knows that “Heil dir im Siegerkranz” uses the melody of “God save the Queen”, and not the reverse. Therefore all the other versions, from U.S. to Russia- derive from the English anthem. Moreover, in 1795 Heinrich Harris (born in Flensburg, then in Denmark), the author of the lyrics of “Heil dir im Siegerkranz”, put these words before his work: "Song for Danish subjects, that will sing it in their King’s birthday on the melody of the English folksong ‘God save great George the King’ ". It seems in reality that the lyrics were written in 1686 for Louis XIV by Madame de Brinon under the title “Grand Dieu sauve le Roi”, with the music of Lully. Perhaps the occasion for the composition was not extraordinarily noble: M.me de Brinon and Lully wrote the hymn in gratitude for the survival of their King after… an operation of anal fistula… Result: people feel proud and stand at attention listening to a music celebrating the victory on an anal fistula! Splendour of patriotism… Here is the first version of the anthem: kzbin.info/www/bejne/oaqrpmSbpa9re5o

[@hanspeterhansen5783]

@@GiorgioFH ... Pardon ... in the German Wiki, I find to the Melody "God Save the Queen" the following ... However, the authorship of the poet Henry Carey is rejected today. Carey's son had assigned the rights to the tune to his father in 1795 and hoped for a royal pension. However, he stated that his father had just composed the melody in 1745, although he died in 1743. The writer Carey is said to have used the help of his friend Smith in the composition, who was a pupil Georg Friedrich Handel and corrected him the bass voice. As equally wrong is the derivation of a melody by the French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully, with which, according to the memories of the Marquise de Créquy, the recovery of Louis XIV was celebrated by an anal fistula. A march of the Swiss military was also called the origin of the melody. The then strange name national anthem, ie "national motet", stems from the fact that the fourth coronation anthems composed by Handel in 1727 (Coronation Anthems) had the same beginning. In 1745 they sang for patriotic reasons in London theaters and concerts daily for a while, just before Carey's song was known. So it inherited the name anthem, which today means both "hymn" and "hymn".

[@GiorgioFH]

@@hanspeterhansen5783 Insisting on saying that the melody of “God save the Queen” derives from the melody of “Heil dir im Siegerkranz” is just like saying that Bach was strongly influenced by Beethoven’s music… Since you like Wikipedia, you will find s.v. “Heil dir im Siegerkranz”: Wikipedia English: The melody of the hymn derived from the British anthem "God Save the King" Wikipedia French: Le texte avait été écrit par Heinrich Harries le 27 janvier 1790 sur la musique du God Save the Queen Wikipedia Italian : La melodia fu la medesima dell'inno nazionale britannico Wikipedia German, quoting the original Title of Heil dir im Siegerkranz: “(Lied) zu singen in der Melodie des englischen Volksliedes God save George the King“ Excuse me, but I don’t think you and I should waste other time for this obvious issue. As I said (“It seems”), the French origin of the melody is not sure.

[@hanspeterhansen5783]

@@GiorgioFH ... THANK YOU ... I do not care to argue, especially since I'm not a specialist on this subject. I noticed that both hymns have the same melody. I researched at Wiki (may be that there are better sources) and found that the Prussian hymn is from the late 18th century and English from the early 19th century and more details. I wrote the result here. ;-)

[@GiorgioFH]

@@hanspeterhansen5783 Okay. But since the author of the lyrics of “Heil dir im Siegerkranz” - Heinrich Harries - wrote that his hymn had to be sung on the melody of “God save George the King” (his original dedication: “Lied…zu singen in der Melodie des englischen Volksliedes God save George the King“) it seems to me quite bizarre to have a belief contrary to his own words… However no problem for me. Bye.

[@knutdergroe9757]

Too judge a person from the 19th or early 20th century, By our standards is most unjust. And a person of a royal family, I always pity. I know of prisoners that have much more freedom.

[@SuperBigblue19]

Named after her maternal grandmother Queen Victoria .

[@Luciasantos-by9np]

Queen Victoria was great-grandmother of Victoria Louise, not grandmother.

[@hollyhinkel2418]

Stunning!

[@tankgirl2074]

beautiful collection

[@civishamburgum1234]

Time to start simping.

[@Schlohmotion]

Ach komm... So langsam habe ich das gefühl, dass YT mir mehr und mehr Dinge vorschlägt, die du vorher gesehen hast.

[@civishamburgum1234]

@@Schlohmotion KZbin Dutscland ist halt nicht so groß.

[@doodz1948]

Kaiser Wilhelm, was himself, Colonel in Chief of the British 1st Royal Dragoons, up until the outbreak of the Great War.

[@trevorwood5456]

Beautiful Princess. She looks fantastic in the Totenkopf Husar Uniform. TY giorgio

[@herondelatorre4023]

German princess Victoria Luise of Prussia was the great grandmother of Spain's current monarch King Felipe VI. How Amazing!?!?!?

[@palomino73]

Giorgio is in lo-ove, Giorgio is in lo-ove... She surely was a good looking woman - even by today's standards. Calm looks, beautiful face - just the right woman to calm you down and in the arms of which you'd find comfort (not what you think!).

[@bonnie_gail]

very informative, thank you

[@IrishAnnie]

I just LOVE the sailor suits little boys wore. They should make a comeback!

[@CoxJoxSox]

Well the workers still weren't very happy with the Kaiser - someone at a factory once threw a metal piece at his face and that is why he has a scar just under his right eye. They often had to airbrush it out.

[@hollyolson8048]

Nick Doe

[@Kyleinasailing]

Rather haunting and beautiful.

[@irinanemtsov7523]

Bismarck, not Emperor was behind introduction of social policies in Germany.