'The thought of him remaining a cripple haunts me.
'It cuts me to the heart when I see all other children with the use of all their limbs and that mine is denied that,' she wrote in an anguished letter to her mother. Three days later, a nursemaid noticed that his damaged left arm hung limply at his side - much to his mother's horror. But her first pregnancy almost ended in disaster, after she underwent a traumatic breech delivery.Ī Caesarean – too dangerous at the time – was out of the question and the future Kaiser Wilhelm II had to be wrenched forcefully into the world. It was a passionate love match that also fulfilled the dynastic dreams of her German father Prince Albert. His mother Vicky was only 17 when she married Prussia’s dashing Crown Prince Friedrich, known as Fritz, in 1858. In the BBC documentary, Royal Cousins at War, the story of how the young Wilhelm's hatred of his parents, and all things Biritsh, in part, brought about the beginning of the First World War is told. Wilhelm, the eldest of the three and the owner of a withered arm thanks to his traumatic birth, was notoriously difficult and had a strained relationship with his English mother, Victoria or 'Vicky' as she was known to friends and family. Best of enemies: Kaiser Wilhelm II (L) and King Edward VII loathed each other despite being nephew and uncle
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