Edward VII

Lamenting that Wilhelm has been forbidden by his father, the last German emperor Wilhelm II, from visiting him at Windsor ("...unhappily your papa objects to your going away to England this year...") and expressing regret that he is unable to renew his acquaintance with Wilhelm's new wife Cecile, 3 pages on royal monogrammed paper, 8vo, Marienbad, 5 September 1905, creased across centre resulting from previous fold

"...Another year it will probably be the same story as I have reason to believe that your father does not like your coming to England!..."

Here Edward addresses his great-nephew with all the familiarity which he adopts in his letters to the Crown Prince's father, but with a jovial nod towards the contemptuous regard in which Wilhelm II held his son ("I was indeed sorry and at the same time not very surprised..."). On his previous visit to see his uncle in 1901, the young Wilhelm had enraged his father by bestowing upon the beautiful Gladys Deacon, whom he encountered at Blenheim, a ring known as "The Luck of Prussia", which Kaiser Wilhelm demanded he get back before returning immediately to Germany.