Kaiser Wilhelm II, King George V, and Tsar Nicholas II: Cousins at War
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- čas přidán 20. 06. 2024
- Find out how they are related and see photos of cousins George, Wilhelm, and Nicholas together before the beginning of World War 1. Soon the monarchs and leaders of the three countries would soon be enemies in the First World War.
0:00 Intro
0:36 Tsar Nicholas II and King George V
1:55 Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II
3:15 King George V and Kaiser Wilhelm II
4:35 Outro
Music:
Cain / Lo Mimieux / courtesy of www.epidemicsound.com
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George and Nicholas could have easily been seen as brothers.
Yea
More like twins
Took me a while to figure out who is who but I can now tell them apart but they look almost identical until you get them figured out.
Also the eyes of King George are significantly lighter than Tsar Nicholas the second and the hair is slightly different
@@yashdiablo6969 agreed
King George and Tsar Nicholas ll look nearly identical and it took me a while to tell them apart without having to read who is who. It amazes me they were able to stand upright with so many medals and such especially at 1:50
Seems like that was funny for them to wear each other army's uniform.
Man, I don’t know why, but I feel really nostalgic and very sad…
Perhaps you "remember" something from some other time... I do too...
@@VendPrekmurec I think... I think I do, too. I... feel a great sense of loss, looking at these pictures. Makes me wonder what could have been.
I do too! Like heartbroken
Honestly George and Nicholas could've passed for identical twins in the modern days. and quite literally do that twin prank of switching classes with each other to confuse the class and teacher. And other than their haircuts you wouldn't be able to tell them apart.
They're more like identical twins than cousins
Knows this three cousins after watch Kingsman 3rd film, two days ago ..
They didn't go to war. They sent everyone else.
Well technically Nicholas II went to war but he didn't fight. Also I get what you're trying to say.
IS Grant was in more wars and battles than the men he commanded. Get your facts straight.
@@Channelscruf was he a royal?
Exactly.
EXACTLY!!! how many times do you think they met drinking tea and laughing it up while all of Europe was killing or being killed.. And you want to tell me it's any different today? Same owners, different names
Looks like they had fun on costume parties
More, switching countries party.
@@glitched9050 lol good one
Good perspective. Thank you
Nice work sir!
Thank you for this beautiful video! How absolutely handsome Tsar Nicholas and King George were!
Yes, and I find Wilhelm II was quite handsome, too, in his younger years before he became the emperor.
Good video.
What's even sadder is the story of the German Prince who was exiled and fought the Russians because he refused to fight the Brits. Forgot his name (maybe Charles Edward?) but his sister got to live in the UK after the war and he was all alone in a broken Germany.
I absolutely Love history 🎉❤
Me too
Im sure millions have said it but Nicholas and George look like twins, or at least brotherz. Its unbelievably tragic what war does to the human spirit and soul.
Before Windsor, they were Saxe-Coburg Gotha.
Caesar, Kaiser, and Tsar, are different pronunciations of the same title. Meaning “Roman Emperor”.
You are right, Russians are sons of th Eastern Empire in Constantinople and Germans are sons of the Western empire in Rome
The image of them both on the ship deck is off. The man on the right looks like a totally different, and much older man
why did they switch uniforms all the time? was it a custom for visitors?
yeah it was a gesture of goodwill on diplomatic affairs to wear the officers uniform of the state you were visiting
Saint Nicholas II is a blessed Saint for all Orthodox Christians 🙏🏻💒📖☦️ a lot of miracless has became true in his name cause he is next to Jesus now ❤️🔥☦️
Amen ☦️🙏🏻 i pray for Russia to become a Chriistian Empire again
2:26 they switched uniforms?
Please see also the picture of the italian Duke Amedeo D'Aosta-Savoia another cousin of them and.is looking the same
No wonder the 3 monarchs- King George 5th of Britain,Kaiser Wilhelm 2nd the last German King and Tzar Nicholas 2nd the last Russian Emperor- were cousins.Only lucky cousin among the 3 famous monarchs would be the British King George Vth since his legacy is carried on by his great grand son and the new ruler of Great Britain King Charles Windsor.Sadly it was game over for the other 2 royal cousins Kaiser Wilhelm and Tzar Nicholas as both their regimes were game over after 1st World War.
I knew by history,they were cousins, and Queen victoria grandson the strange question is that why they fight on the first world war
Swapping each other ceremony cloth is a symbol of their relationships
The Kaiser looks cool 😎
We Europeans from Russia to England are the same people in a lot of ways..... Only idiolegy is what separate us
You're not Europeans ,Russia is a country in Asia, and there is a huge huge difference between Russia and the united kingdom, English people are related to Germans they're literally the same nation under different flags
@@levent.a.7280 🤣😂whaaat??? Europe ends at the Ural mountains which could fit all of West Europe in it 3x and still have room....
That's like saying English people aren't Europeans cuz they're not connected to Europe 😂🤌
Russians are Europeans they are Slavic have you never seen the picture of king George V of England and tzar Nicholas the second? They could be twins...
Prior to communism it was a well-established European empire prior to empire they were the Russ who are closely related to Scandinavians in terms of culture gods traditions ships and lifestyles...
There are more blonde haired blue-eyed people in Russia then the rest of Europe put together....
The scientific term for white Europeans is Caucasian from the mountains of the Caucasus not Germanic or Latin or brittonian but specifically Caucasian the caucuses is in Russia.
Frankly I'm very embarrassed for you right now.
@@marcuslegion3654 it has nothing to do with being blonde or blue eyed, many people from Turkey, Israel, Lebanon and other countries in the middle east are blonde and Blue eyed, does that mean they are also Europeans? Russia is a county in southern, northern and central Asia, it has absolutely zero connections to Europe, only Germans ,french , Scandinavians and English people are truly hundred percent Europeans
@@levent.a.7280 I'm literally shocked right now.....
Russians are Slavic belonging to the European genetic pool...
So by your understanding Europe goes from Ireland to Germany meaning no Poland no Czech Republic no Greeks no ukrainians no Italians no Russians.... Because none of those people are related to Scandinavians Germans or Brits?....
I'm honestly shocked.....
If you count polish or ukrainians how do you exclude the Russians it's the same people they're Slavic.... 🤯🤯
You are aware Europe is more than just Germanic and britannian people's right there's Celtic Greeks Latin Slavic and Norse people's ...
@@marcuslegion3654 truly hundred percent European nations or counties are:
Germany, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, the united kingdom, Italy ,Spain , Portugal, Ireland, and Iceland
These European countries are very similar and share the same culture and History
Saint Nicholas II pray for us 🙏🏻☦️
My god Russians and Brits can be indistinguishable.... Wow.
If they switch each other uniform, it would be absolutely chaos to everyone, like who's who... Bet they will do those back in day as unintentionally prank
The tsar was from Prussia (germany)
@@Dankman3 Germans and Russians back then were close.
Actually I was amazed about how George and Nicholas on the one hand looked so similar while on the other hand it appears to me quite easy to say that Nichoas' face looks more Eastern while George's looks quite Western on most of the shots.
@@marcuslegion3654 so you're saying all white people look the same. That's racist
How is George 1st cousins with them both, but Wilhelmina and Nicholas are only second cousins?
King George and Tsar Nicholas' mothers were sisters. George's father and Kaiser Wilhelm's mother were brother and sister. Therefore, King George is first cousins with both the Tsar and Kaiser. The Tsar and Kaiser are distant cousins through Wilhelm the first. And cousins-in-law through Tsarina Alix who was the first cousin of the Kaiser.
Imagine you have cousins that speak language you can't speak
The kaiser can speak fluent English
Nicholas had a brilliant education and was fluent in 5 languages, Russian, English, German, French and Danish. He also visited Japan a lot, might have picked up on a few things. Nicholas' English was so good that his coutiers have said that he could pose as an Oxford professor and fool any Brit. He also only spoke English to his wife who oh so conveniently happened to be Queen Victoria's granddaughter.
all of them spoke good English
All of them had English royal lineage and spoke English..has the same grandparents.
Wilhelm II was a trouble maker of the three
It’s like they played the game risk for real!
So this mean HM Elizabeth II is the 3rd or 2nd cousin to Anastasia??
Yes
Yes. Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh) was a closer relative to Tsar Nicholas, and his blood was used for the DNA identification of the Romanov family's remains.
If I remember correctly Phillip's mother was a niece of Tsarina Alexandra.
"So' cugini e tra parenti non so fanno i complimenti ". So wrote the Italian poet Trilussa in a poem called Ninna nanna (Lullaby), a poem.about war in the form.of lullaby to explain the absurdity of war. "They (kings of Europe) are cousins and neverthekess are enemies"
Раньше у королей и императоров было в глазах действительно что то королевское неуловимое и их голубые глаза прошли от правителя к правителю через века
The King's Man
They look so alike. Twins rather than cousins.
It really makes you wonder about ww1 doesnt it....
Robert wadlow ya?
Even their mother look like twins
Iván Espinosa de los Monteros
????
Ga trading ya
Never found theirs bodies
So who knows
The Russian Royal family, body, were fond, some years ago
It's a shame that the real men are not in the picture.
Wilhelm looked like any ordinary German on the street. He had no royal presence or aura whatsoever
No more brother wars
The good old days right? Monarchy was an is quite the racket!
George yg aku maksud bukan George bush yaaa....
King George, ini yg keluargaku yaa... Jangan salah kamar lagi
No wonder buddy lost power he was hanging with his cousins at the worst time
Thanks, does anyone know if allegedly they were Rothschilds?
The Rothschilds were their handlers, the true owners of their "governments" just as they are now
They weren’t. The Rothschilds openly said that they would let the Windsors sit on the throne of England as long as the Windsors remembered who controlled the purse strings. So King George was controlled by the Rosthchilds but he wasn’t one.
::Comment about two of them looking similar::
Keluargaku George ini ya,, bukan george bush, george bush,, orang jahat,,
Nah keluarga george yg ini, jangan salah lagi ya menduga
Supposedly the war was about Nationalism and yet all these royals ate closely related
The WW1 wasn't about Nationalism, it was about different alliances, colonial lands and Germany wanting to be badass (that's the dumbified explanation ofc but nationalism wasn't in the table)
@@s_lasgalen so the killing of the Archduke was by a Nationalist? And what resulted at the end was the rise of Nationalism. Which in turn spurred the beginning of WWII?
@@Shinobi33 doesn't make the war about nationalism. There's a connection surely but it's more complicated than that. WW1 resulted in complete misery for Germany which THEN resulted in nationalistic ideas. I'm not saying Nationalism has absolutely nothing to do with the topic but the main causes for the war weren't of that kind. Also the assassination of Archduke of Austria was simply the event that started the war, not the longstanding reason behind it. It's like a bomb: the spark starts the explosion but someone had to put dynamite there in the first place.
@@s_lasgalen the war was absolutely about Nationalism. That's what stoked all the hatred for each other. A bunch of nations and people who had nothing in common but lived under the order and rule of these empires. Those uneasy alliances within these nations made it impossible for the uneasy alliances the empires had with other empires to work. So anything at all was gonna cause that tempest to explode over. The people forced great powers to fight each other. And since all ruling families were basically cousins (through centuries of inbreeding) they didn't want to fight, but had to. Sides were chosen as a way of surviving and holding on to whatever of their territories were left after the dust settled. Though there would be no going back to the old ways of dolling out land and ruling. Btw, the main catalyst of this was the industrial revolution
It was about making money for the famous baking families, depopulating the earth,and getting Russia back under freem@son control. Czar Alexander I banned freem@sonry in Russia, and Czar Nicholas was trying to implement a national Christian religion across the country.
Honestly emperor of Germany looks more good in naval, those German uniforms definitely have drip wheather it be n@zi, monrachist or Republic.
What do you expect from Hugo Boss?
@@cautionTosser I always expect the best from them
Cousins or not, these guys were in military uniforms so much of the time. They were thinking of their role and country in military terms and had military titles.
Leaders should have a civilian mindset. They should be capable of command but fundamentally focused on the health and well-being of their citizens, along with ethical behavior toward all people.