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
That’s hardly a new concept; it was already in practice as realpolitik under Otto von Bismarck, the blood-and-iron chancellor to King Wilhelm I of Prussia, back in the late 1800s when he forcefully consolidated Germany.
From Washington Post ● May 26, 2017
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
Kaiser Wilhelm I is supposed to have remarked that only Bismarck, who tied Germany to a set of countervailing alliances, could juggle four or five balls.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 24, 2014
"No rude speeches, my young lady!" said Wilhelm; "I am an academical burgher!"
From O. T. a Danish Romance by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
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