King George V of Britain and Czar Nicholas II of Russia each possessed impeccable Vandyke beards; people had trouble telling the men apart. In Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II had so elaborate a ...

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That would be Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II, engagingly played by the veteran Christopher Plummer. Though the kaiser exited history’s stage when he abdicated in 1918, Wilhelm lived on in exile ...