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  1. 1 day ago · For example, Victoria‘s eldest daughter, Victoria, Princess Royal, married Prince Frederick William of Prussia, later becoming Empress of Germany and Queen of Prussia. Their eldest son, Wilhelm II, would become the last German Emperor and play a crucial role in the events leading up to World War I.

  2. 4 days ago · The House of Hohenzollern (/ ˌ h oʊ ə n ˈ z ɒ l ər n /, US also /-n ˈ z ɔː l-,-n t ˈ s ɔː l-/; German: Haus Hohenzollern, pronounced [ˌhaʊs hoːənˈtsɔlɐn] ⓘ; Romanian: Casa de Hohenzollern) is a formerly royal (and from 1871 to 1918, imperial) German dynasty whose members were variously princes, electors, kings and emperors of Hohenzollern, Brandenburg, Prussia, the German ...

  3. 2 days ago · The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, [b] often referred to in France as the War of 1870, was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the North German Confederation led by the Kingdom of Prussia. Lasting from 19 July 1870 to 28 January 1871, the conflict was caused primarily by France's determination to reassert its dominant ...

    • France and the Rhine Province, Prussia
    • German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine
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  5. 5 days ago · September 1814 - June 9, 1815. Location: Austria. Vienna. Participants: Austria. France. Portugal. Prussia. Russia. Spain. Sweden. United Kingdom. Key People: Alexander I. Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh. Ercole Consalvi. Karl August von Hardenberg. Klemens von Metternich. (Show more) On the Web:

    • The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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    5 days ago · Prussia ( / ˈprʌʃə /, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions. It formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871.

  7. 11 hours ago · Bill’s mother holds him steady as she and brother Paul pose for a family portrait in Berlin in 1917. As the guns of the First World War pounded the countryside, the Russian army advanced on a small village in East Prussia. An old man packed a wagon with hay and straw and gathered up his pregnant daughter and grandson and a few family belongings.

  8. 3 days ago · William, prince of Wales, elder son of Charles III and Princess Diana and heir apparent to the British throne. He is married to Catherine, princess of Wales, and has three children, George, Charlotte, and Louis. Learn more about his life, military service, and family.

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