The photograph, the source, and the unknowns
Victoria with her eldest grandchild, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II. Date approximate: the archive says c. 1859, but Wilhelm appears several years old.
- Archive caption
- Queen Victoria holding her eldest grandchild, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- c. 1859-1860
- Credit
- Wikimedia Commons
- Rights
- c. 1859 photograph, anonymous; all plausible authors dead >70 years; US PD via pre-1930 publication · Public Domain Mark 1.0
- Source record
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Unknown. “Victoria with her eldest grandchild, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II.” c. 1859-1860. Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Victoria_holding_her_eldest_grandchild_Wilhelm.jpg. Viewed via Nostalgia Museum artifact 713, reviewed 22 August 2026. https://getnostalgia.ai/museum/artifact/3lhPAVl5b0Nd2Jr_/713
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