- The Kaiser's left arm was deformed due to a traumatic breech birth. Some have theorized that this affected his emotional development.
- Whenever he was at his summer residence in Stuttgart, he and his cavalry officers would parade up and down the main street every Sunday at noon. The townsfolk were "encouraged" to attend.
- The impact of Wilhelm's abdication sent youngest son, Prince Joachim, into a deep depression. Unable to accept his new status as a commoner, he shot himself on July 18, 1920.
- The first grandchild of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. He was at Victoria's beside when she died.
- Encouraged Russia to go to war with Japan in 1904, and supplied the Imperial Russian Navy with fuel as it sailed around Africa.
- Publicly sided with the Boers after the Jameson Raid in 1896, and during the Second Boer War (1899-1902).
- Uncle of Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, and Prince Sigismund of Prussia.
- Son of Princess Royal Victoria and King Frederick III of Prussia.
- 1st Cousin of Tsarina Alexandra, Queen Victoria Eugenia, Princess Alice, Prince Albert Victor, Dronning Maud, King George V, and Queen Marie of Romania.
- Initally supported Adolf Hitler, hoping Hitler would restore the monarchy with his eldest grandson as the fourth Kaiser. After "The Night of the Broken Glass" in November 1938, Wilhelm was quoted as saying that for the first time in his life, he felt ashamed to be German. However he wrote anti-Semitic remarks in letters, and sent telegrams congratulating Hitler on the Dutch surrender in May 1940 and the Fall of France in June 1940. Hitler ignored his request that there be no Nazi regalia at his funeral.
- Wilhelm's grandson, Karl Franz Josef, married Hermine's daughter, Henriette, in 1940. They divorced in 1946.
- He and Tsar Nicholas II would send telegrams to each other in English signed "Willie" and "Nicky".
- Grandfather of Prinz Louis Ferdinand von Preussen. Great-grandfather of Prinz Louis Ferdinand Junior von Preussen, Friedrich Wilhelm Prinz von Preußen, Prinz Michael von Preussen, Sofía de Grecia, King Constantine II, and Princess Irene of Greece. Second great-grandfather of Georg Friedrich von Preußen, Prinzessin Nataly von Preussen, Prinzessin Micaela von Preussen, Elena de Borbón, Cristina de Borbón, Crown Prince of Greece Pavlos, Prince Nikolaos, Theodora Greece, and King Felipe VI of Spain. Third great-grandfather of Juan Urdangarín Borbón, Pablo Urdangarín Borbón, Miguel Urdangarín Borbón, Felipe Juan Froilán de Marichalar y Borbón, and Victoria Federica de Marichalar y Borbón.
- Brother of Prince Henry of Prussia and Princess Charlotte of Prussia.
- Children: Crown Prince Hohenzollern, Prince Eitel Friedrich (1883-1942), Prince Adalbert (1884-1948), Prince August Wilhelm (1887-1949), Prince Oskar (1888-1958), Prince Joachim (1890-1920), and Viktoria Luise von Preußen.
- Nephew of King Edward VII.
- Brother-in-law of King Constantine.
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