"I think that the Kaiser's personality, the aggressive, bombastic, thrusting nature of his personality, had to do with the arm.
"He was compensating. You didn't laugh at a German emperor with a crippled arm who had the most powerful army in the world and who could remove you from the throne by snapping his fingers if he wanted to.
"Kaiser Wilhelm II was the eldest of Queen Victoria's grandchildren.
"His mother, Vicky, was the eldest of Victoria's daughters. She married Frederick and became the German Empress. After Wilhelm was born, she often went back to England in the summer, because she loved England. And she took her son – the future Kaiser --with her. He went to Osbourne, on the Isle of Wight. He saw the British navy and he saw his cousin, the future King George V. When Wilhelm went back to Britain, he was very proud to be the grandson of the great Queen Victoria, later the Queen Empress.
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