One hundred years ago this week, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany exchanged a series of telegrams to try to stop the rush to a war that neither of them wanted.

King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed impeccable Vandyke beards; ... In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II had so elaborate a mustache, teased into an upward-slanting W, ...

In the year 1918, just after the end of World War I, American journalist, writer, and diplomat Herman Bernstein published a book titled The Willy–Nicky correspondence.It was an anthology of private ...

European royalty was pretty much in the end game by the time of King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Czar Nicholas II of Russia. The problem was, these three pretty, mediocre ...

Both found their cousin Kaiser Wilhelm II difficult - as did Edward VII The Kaiser, meanwhile, had a troubled relationship with his English mother The Danish mothers of George V and Tsar Nicholas ...

The best was none too good for Wilhelm, Nicholas and George. When Russia’s Czar Nicholas II and his family undertook a three-week vacation in Denmark, they required 20 railroad cars and an ...

On three platforms near the periphery of the globe stand actors wearing lifelike mask-faces of Emperor Franz Josef, Tsar Nicholas II and Kaiser Wilhelm II. As the globe turns, ...

The decades leading up to World War I were, across Europe, an era of dwindling dynasties and triumphal facial hair. King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed ...

Nicholas’ wife was also a first cousin to George (on his father’s side) and Kaiser Wilhelm bore the same close relationship to both. (He was also related twice over to the czar.) ...

Tsar Nicholas II was retiring by nature and George V was painfully shy. Scarcely a peep was heard in public from the elderly Austrian emperor Franz Joseph, a notoriously austere and laconic figure.

His Russian cousin, Czar Nicholas II, had recently lost his throne and was under house arrest. ... Nicholas and Wilhelm” succeeds magnificently. The kaiser has always been a fascinating figure.