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Effeminacy Hypothesis. William II, says Author Ludwig, possesses "the gifts of a high-strung nature beyond a doubt." With his incurable, withered arm he should have turned to a brilliant civil career; but, alas, the military tradition of Prussia demanded as Crown Prince a dashing cavalry officer. Worse still his mother, Victoria² (daughter of British Queen-Empress Victoria), was repelled by her son's deformity, hated him, and once remarked inhumanly to an Austrian nobleman: "You can scarcely imagine how I admire your handsome, intelligent and graceful Crown Prince³ when I see . . . my uncouth, lumpish son William...
Questioned the blue-eyed, towheaded child: "Are you really my Queen? I thought you always wore a golden crown...
Said the Queen-Empress Victoria Mary: "My dear, I am sorry I have left my golden crown at home...
When I go out I wear only this sort of crown,"-pointing...
There are parades, pageants, street mummery. There is Rex, the king, who rides along the rolling streets with his crown cocked...