![]() ![]() In addition, Miranda Carter says in her artful if sometimes lumbering group biography, they were “ill-equipped by education and personality to deal with the modern world, marooned by history in positions increasingly out of kilter with their era.” The real tragedy was that neither George, Nicholas nor Wilhelm was built to adapt to a changing world their time was evaporating. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II had so elaborate a moustache, teased into an upward-slanting W, that it earned its own name: “Er ist erreicht!” or “It is achieved!” The rulers were first cousins, and almost everything about them was as anachronistic and absurd as their bristling whiskers. King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia possessed impeccable Vandyke beards people had trouble telling them apart. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I is written by Miranda Carter and published by Vintage. The decades leading up to the First World War were, across Europe, an era of dwindling dynasties and triumphal facial hair. George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receiptīuy It or Skip It? George, Nicholas and Wilhelm. ![]()
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