Period photographs of the six sons and one daughter of the German Kaiser. The sons pose polished, varnished and bemedaled as the military fops they were trained to be: “Born in a palace; in a barracks bred”. The journalist points out that even Wilhelm’s one daughter served as a Colonel in an elite cavalry regiment.


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