Queen Victoria, a Diamond Jubilee portrait, 1897
The Prince of Wales (Bertie) at 27 in 1869
King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra aboard the yacht Victoria and Albert at Cowes, 1909. The King is 67, the Queen 64
The Empress Frederick (Vicky)
The Emperor Frederick III (Fritz)
Prince William’s parents
Prince William and his mother
Kaiser William II
Kaiser William and his wife, Kaiserin Augusta Victoria (Dona)
The Kaiser at Kiel, 1909. Note the use of gloves to extend the apparent length of his miniature left arm.
The Kaiser and his uncle, Edward VII, in Berlin, 1909
Otto von Bismarck
Bismarck and the young Kaiser
“Dropping the pilot” (See here)
Holstein
Caprivi
Eulenburg
Hohenlohe
Bernhard von Bülow
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg
Alfred von Tirpitz
Lord Salisbury
Joseph Chamberlain
The Colonial Secretary and his wife, Mary
Cecil Rhodes
Lord Lansdowne
Arthur Balfour as Prime Minister, 1902
Captain John Fisher of H.M.S. Excellent, 1883
Fisher as Vice Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Mediterranean Fleet in the admiral’s cabin of the battleship Renown, 1900
First Sea Lord
Lord Charles Beresford
Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman
H. H. Asquith
Margot Tennant
Venetia Stanley
The Asquith family and friends in Ireland, 1912. Front row: the Prime Minister (second from left). Margot Asquith (third from left). Violet Asquith. Asquith’s daughter by his first marriage (far right). Back row: Two of Asquith’s sons by his first marriage–Arthur, (second from left) and Cyril (fifth from left).
David Lloyd George
Richard B. Haldane
Sir Edward Grey
Jennie Churchill, 39, in 1893
Winston Churchill and his mother in 1912 Winston was 37, Jennie 58.
Winston Churchill in 1904 when he crossed the aisle, abandoning the Unionists to join the Liberals.
The First Lord inspecting naval cadets, 1912.
H.M.S. Dreadnought assuming the role of flagship of the Home Fleet in 1907.