PRINCE WILLIAM OF GERMANY
The following unlovely pen-portrait of Prince William, the now probable successor to the cr >wn of Germany is sketohed by the '■ Melbourne Argus." "Prince William is about aa anhappy and unlovely a -peolmen of humanity as o.n we'l be conceived. One half of hia body is more or Ibbb defective — ene of his anna being withered. He haa chronic inflammation of the baae of the brain, and ia tortured by recurrent abaoosaea m both ears, which reuder him Intermittently deaf, and are rapidly impairing hla hearing altogether. Hia oplniona are retrograde and his temper detestable. Ho gets on badly with hla wife, and positively abhors his mother. tiii dhlike of her haa its root m resentment aga-nst* inherited infirmities — a resentment which ia perhaps, directed agalnatths wrong pan n\ cr which ought In falrneaa to be divided between the two; but tbe feeling, each as it is, haa been Btudloualy fostered by Bismarck, who loses no opportunity of assailing the hated influence of the little Englishwoman. The * military party ' 1 -oka to Prince William aa its lealer, and regards the Crown P.inc.ss with the moat extreme aversion."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1775, 24 February 1888, Page 2
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191PRINCE WILLIAM OF GERMANY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1775, 24 February 1888, Page 2
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