Royal Web Author:Ladislas Farago History teaches there was one Victoria, but really there were two, for the Queen was also a mother, and her eldest daughter carried her name. She was the Princess Victoria, who in marriage chose Frederick of Prussia -- solid, conservative, royal. Their first born son was Wilhelm, "Kaiser Bill," a sort of comic opera Teddy Roosevelt. If he did... more »n't claim to have started WW I, it was only because Germany didn't win. That war ended the "royal web" by which the old queen hoped to insure a peaceful Europe. She contemplated a confederation of cousins, largely hers, ruling the civilized world and its possessions. It didn't play the way she hoped, but it enjoyed a limited and ironic run: as a network for gathering wartime intelligence, it worked well.« less