Princess Victoria Louise & Princess Cecile uniform 1913

Front cover showing two German Princesses in Military uniform. (Left) Princess Victoria Louise (1892 - 1980), the only daughter and the last child of German Emperor Wilhelm II and Empress Augusta Victoria. Wearing uniform as a colonel of the 7th Hussars. It will be observed that the military head-dress recalls the badge of the 7th Lancers, the famous Death of Glory Boys, so far as corcerns the skull and crossbones, which however, do not appear on the uniform of our British regiment. And her sister-in-law (Right) Princess Cecile (1886 - 1954), the wife of the Crown Prince of Prussia, the German Prince Imperial in the uniform of the King Frederick III's Dragons of which regiment she is colonel. The occasion was that of the Death's Head Hussars drilling

Cecile Cecilie Crossbones Drilling Hussars Luise Mecklenburg Pith Princesses Schwerin Totenkopf Viktoria

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