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ALSO BY MIRANDA CARTER Anthony Blunt: His Lives For Finn and Jesse CONTENTS Family Trees Maps Author’s Note Introduction PART I THREE CHILDHOODS, THREE COUNTRIES 1 An Experiment in Perfection 1859 WILHELM 2 Coming Second 1865 GEORGE 3 A Diamond-Studded Ivory Tower 1868 NICHOLAS PART II FAMILY TIES, IMPERIAL CONTESTS 4 1888–90 WILHELM EMPEROR 5 1891–94 YOUNG MEN IN LOVE 6 1891–95 WILHELM ANGLOPHILE 7 1895–97 PERFIDIOUS MUSCOVY 8 1893–1904 BEHIND THE WALL 9 1898–1901 IMPERIAL IMPERATIVES PART III A BRIGHT NEW CENTURY 10 1901–4 THE FOURTH EMPEROR 11 1904–5 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES 12 1906–8 CONTINENTAL SHIFTS 13 1908—9 A BALKAN CRISIS 14 1910–11 EDWARD’S MANTLE 15 1911–14 CELEBRATIONS AND WARNINGS 16 1914 JULY PART IV ARMAGEDDON 17 1914–18 A WAR EPILOGUE Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Illustrations

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In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the

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ALSO BY MIRANDA CARTER Anthony Blunt: His Lives For Finn and Jesse CONTENTS Family Trees Maps Author’s Note Introduction PART I THREE CHILDHOODS, THREE COUNTRIES 1 An Experiment in Perfection 1859 WILHELM 2 Coming Second 1865 GEORGE 3 A Diamond-Studded Ivory Tower 1868 NICHOLAS PART II FAMILY TIES, IMPERIAL CONTESTS 4 1888–90 WILHELM EMPEROR 5 1891–94 YOUNG MEN IN LOVE 6 1891–95 WILHELM ANGLOPHILE 7 1895–97 PERFIDIOUS MUSCOVY 8 1893–1904 BEHIND THE WALL 9 1898–1901 IMPERIAL IMPERATIVES PART III A BRIGHT NEW CENTURY 10 1901–4 THE FOURTH EMPEROR 11 1904–5 UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES 12 1906–8 CONTINENTAL SHIFTS 13 1908—9 A BALKAN CRISIS 14 1910–11 EDWARD’S MANTLE 15 1911–14 CELEBRATIONS AND WARNINGS 16 1914 JULY PART IV ARMAGEDDON 17 1914–18 A WAR EPILOGUE Notes Bibliography Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Illustrations

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In the years before the First World War, the great European powers were ruled by three first cousins: King George V of Britain, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. Together, they presided over the last years of dynastic Europe and the outbreak of the most destructive war the

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