Crown Prince of Germany and Prussia, he was born on 6 May 1882 
          in the Marmorpalais in Potsdam. In July 1904 he met his future bride, 
          Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, at a ceremony in Schwerin to 
          welcome her brother Grand Duke Franz Friedrich's bride, Princess 
          Alexandra von Hannover. In her memoirs Cecilie recorded "I shall never 
          forget how, on the afternoon of July 5th, the day of the ceremony, 
          standing on the White Staircase with my mother and sister to receive 
          the guests, I saw my future husband coming up the steps; for me the 
          first moment settled everything! Brief as his stay was, it was full of 
          new experience for both of us." 
               However, he spent the best part of his life in pursuit of women. 
          But, as he related in his autobiography, he ramined in love with his 
          "beautiful young bride." On 6 June 1905 in Berlin, they married and 
          they became the parents of four sons and two daughters. 
                After the defeat of Germany in 1918, he joined his father, the 
          Kaiser, in exile in The Netherlands, but he returned to the family's 
          ancestral seat at Hechingen in 1923 and subsequently he and all his 
          four sons became members of the Nazi Party. Clearly, they had nothing 
          in common with the upstart Austrian corporal, Adolf Hitler, but he had 
          deigned to visit them at Hechingen, where he had spoken in vague terms 
          of restoring the German monarchy after his 'mission' in Europe had 
          been accomplished. 
                By the early 1920s, he and his wife were virtually estranged, 
          although Cecilie did visit her husband several times during his five 
          year exile in The Netherlands. Even after Wilhelm returned to Germany 
          to live, they lived largely separate lives. In 1931, there was a move 
          that he should stand for the German presidency in oppositition to 
          Hindenburg, but the Kaiser forbade it. 
                On 20 July 1951 he died at Hechingen

Source: Leo van de Pas