Kaiserin

We should have expected the Kaiser to curse them and the weather, not to weep. Weeping? Kaisers and Kaiserins and Count Zeppelins should be made of sterner stuff.

The Kaiserin, who rarely or never took a hand in politics, was tempted by this personal provocation, and lodged a request that [Alfred von] Kiderlen[-Waechter] “along with his mistress” might be left in Bucharest—a suitable place for him.

The Kaiser’s and Kaiserin’s journey to the Holy Land furnishes another occasion to Empress Marie to vent her feelings with regard to William II.

W. H. Elliott tried the experiment of throwing out a bench of Kaiserins at Christmas that had been blooming all summer and substituting Brides and Bridesmaids for winter flowering and judging from present appearances it was a success.

In May I exhibited my Paul Neyrons and Kaiserins with tremendous boastfulness, but they have long since stopped blooming, while these languid mornings find you daintily decked in pink.

Of all white hybrid teas, Kaiserin Auguste Viktoria is the best known. While the popularity of even the finest of roses is generally short lived, the wonderful Kaiserin still leads in its color class after a reign of fifty-nine years. […] The class for Kaiserins at the Potomac Rose Shows in Washington, D. C, for example, is the special favorite of thousands of flower lovers.

Herr [Friedrich] Ebert said to the first German National Assembly, “We will be an empire of Justice and Truth.” They will have to change the decorations in the schoolroom first—take the kaisers and the kaiserins, the battle-ships and the submarines and the von Hindenburgs off the walls, […]

In 1898, Sultan Abdul-Hamid II gave the Dome of the Rock a hurried renovation and erected a great Turkish crescent atop it to mark the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany and his kaiserin, Augusta Victoria.

Next came a parade, before the seated spectators, of two thousand firemen and a hundred engines, marching past the kaiser and his kaiserin to the music of a military band.

The evening after the child presented her gift to the kaiserin—who gave her a diamond pin in the shape of the imperial eagle—her dress caught on fire from a lit candle.