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Wilhelm II abdicates in favour of grandson
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    Posted: 14-May-2015 at 19:58
In the book Long to Reign? by A. W. Purdue, it is mentioned that the Kaiser Wilhelm "could perhaps have saved the Hohenzollern dynasty" by "abdication in the late summer of 1918 in favour of his grandson, the twelve-year-old Prince Wilhelm."     

I know that Wilhelm abdicated in 1918. This is the first time I have read a mention of Wilhelm Friedrich Franz Joseph Christian Olaf possibly succeeding his grandfather.    
Why bypass the Crown Prince? Who would have been the regent for young Wilhelm? His father, the Crown Prince? His Uncle Eitel Friedrich? His Uncle Adalbert?
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I think the author was trying to be humourous. He says that Kaiser Wilhelm could have saved his dynasty by either abdicating in favour of his grandson, or by dying in a spectacular cavalry charge on the Western front. But neither option was acceptable to the Kaiser.

Edited by Sidney - 31-May-2015 at 12:28
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