Wilhelm I

“I don’t mean this to come off as strange,” she hesitated as we said our goodbyes and she showed me to the door, “but you really are the spitting image of my dear Wilhelm. I was actually shocked to see you in person, the likeness is so striking.”

“Even though Simon knows that it’s wrong, and he knows that he is there with Marcus and he has been saying no to Wilhelm, I just think it’s so beautiful that they just have to feel each other,” Rudberg says with a smile.

Kaiser Wilhelm I was a die-hard Prussian who despised the notion of German unity.

The Forum is located just a few streets from where, 136 years ago, Europe’s leaders convened in the personal residence of King Wilhelm I to carve Africa into pieces for the colonizers.

Part of the monument's site was formerly the plinth of an equestrian statue of Kaiser Wilhelm I, king of Prussia in the 19th Century and then first emperor of a united Germany.