On 8 February, a month before his father died, a cannula was fitted to allow him to breathe, for the rest of his life he was unable to speak and often communicated through writing. The British doctor Sir Morell Mackenzie, who had diagnosed with cancer, advised a tracheotomy, to which Frederick agreed. He was, however, terminally ill from cancer of the larynx. On the death of his father on 9 March 1888, Frederick ascended the throne as Emperor Frederick III.
At Versailles on 18 January 1871, the princes of the North German Confederation proclaimed a German Empire with King William I of Prussia as the hereditary German Emperor. Their sympathies created much friction in Queen Victoria's extended family, since Victoria's younger brother, Albert Edward Prince of Wales, was married to Princess Alexandra of Denmark, the elder daughter of Christian IX of Denmark, who was also the reigning duke of the disputed territories of Schleswig and Holstein. Kaiser Wilhelm IIĭuring the three Wars of German Unification - the 1864 Prussian-Danish War, the 1866 Austro-Prussian War, and the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War - Victoria and Frederick strongly identified with the cause of Prussia and the North German Confederation. Despite their efforts to educate their eldest son, Wilhelm, in British attitudes of democracy, he favoured his German tutors and his grandfather's views in aspiring to autocratic rule and thus became alienated from his parents, William suspected them of putting Britain's interests first. Fredrick and Victoria were politically isolated at the conservative Prussian court and in the House of Hohenzollern, their liberal and Anglophile views conflicted with those of the authoritarian Prussian minister-president, Otto von Bismarck. On the death of his childless uncle King Frederick William IV of Prussia in January 1861 Frederick's father ascended the Prussian throne as King William I and Frederick became Crown Prince of Prussia. He was followed by Franz Frederick Sigismund on 15 September 1864, who tragically died from meningitis at the age of 21 months, Frederika Amelia Wilhelmine Victoria was born in 1866, Joachim Friedrich Ernst Waldemar in February 1868, who died from diphtheria in March 1879, Sophie Dorothea Ulrike Alice, destined to become Queen of the Hellenes, was born on 14 June 1870, and finally Margaret Beatrice Feodora, the couple's last child was born on 22 April 1872. A second son, Albert William Henry, known as Henry, arrived on 14 August 1862 who later married his first cousin Irene, Victoria's sister Alice's daughter.
William was joined by a sister Victoria Elisabeth Auguste Charlotte, born on 24 July 1860, known as Charlotte, she later married Bernhard III, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen.
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For a future German Emperor, this disability seemed disastrous, determined that the damage could be repaired, Vicky embarked upon a series of bizarre, almost medieval attempts to cure him, none of which produced the desired effect.
The couple's first child, a son, Frederick William Victor Albert, the future Kaiser William II, was born on 27 January 1859 after a difficult confinement which resulted in the newborn being inflicted with a withered arm due to Erb's palsy, a now rare form of nerve damage, which paralysed his arm and stunted its growth. The Queen and Prince Albert had hoped that Vicky's marriage to the future king of Prussia would cement close ties between England and Prussia and could lead to the emergence of a unified and liberal Germany. James's Palace, on 25 January 1858, the venue upset some of the Prussians who assumed the wedding would be held in their country, but Queen Victoria insisted it took place in England. The wedding took place at the Chapel Royal, St. The couple were married when Victoria was seventeen. Vicky became engaged to 'Fritz' as he was known, when she was aged just fourteen, in 1855, when Frederick had been invited to Balmoral by her parents. Frederick, the son of Prince William of Prussia and Princess Augusta of Saxe-Weimar was the heir to the throne of Prussia after his father. Vicky met her future husband, Prince Frederick William of Prussia for the first time in 1851 when he and his parents attended the opening of the Great Exhibition in London.
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