Grey Wolf
Donor
We all know that Kaiser Wilhelm II was prone to bouts of severe depression, so let's base a what-if on one of these making him incapable of ruling and Kronprinz Wilhelm becoming Regent on and off, as George IV did for his father.
You would have some interesting parallels, especially if under the Regency the First World War was avoided
The monarch would be this vaguely loved but largely disregarded figure. The Regent would be this hated figure with a playboy image
You could extend it to the other sons of Wilhelm II, for like George III he had a whole bevy of them. You have the Duke of York figure in Eitel Friedrich who in the 1920s could have risen towards the army command. You have the Duke of Clarence (William IV) figure in Adalbert who could have risen highly in the naval command. You have some relative non-entities with military careers - August Wilhelm and Oskar taking on the roles of Kent, Sussex and Cambridge. And you have the loose cannon, likely to create trouble and difficult to control figure with Joachim, analogous to Cumberland
Throw in the rise of the Left under this Regency and all the struggles over extending the franchise, making democracy work etc, and you have some very interesting parallels possible to Georgian Regency
Grey Wolf
You would have some interesting parallels, especially if under the Regency the First World War was avoided
The monarch would be this vaguely loved but largely disregarded figure. The Regent would be this hated figure with a playboy image
You could extend it to the other sons of Wilhelm II, for like George III he had a whole bevy of them. You have the Duke of York figure in Eitel Friedrich who in the 1920s could have risen towards the army command. You have the Duke of Clarence (William IV) figure in Adalbert who could have risen highly in the naval command. You have some relative non-entities with military careers - August Wilhelm and Oskar taking on the roles of Kent, Sussex and Cambridge. And you have the loose cannon, likely to create trouble and difficult to control figure with Joachim, analogous to Cumberland
Throw in the rise of the Left under this Regency and all the struggles over extending the franchise, making democracy work etc, and you have some very interesting parallels possible to Georgian Regency
Grey Wolf