Wilhelm I
Britishnoun
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Wilhelm I was the emperor of Germany, but also king in Prussia.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 26, 2025
German emperor Wilhelm I ceded his rights to the Tiergarten, a royal hunting park, and made it part of the city of Berlin in 1881.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
Kaiser Wilhelm I was a die-hard Prussian who despised the notion of German unity.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2022
Dubbed the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Amber Room was an ornate chamber made of amber panels given to Czar Peter the Great by Prussia's Friedrich Wilhelm I in 1716.
From Reuters • Mar. 3, 2015
"I will not demonstrate anything," said Wilhelm; "I will merely show you what my own conceptions of it are."
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
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