I sometimes wonder how the mentality of the citizens of the German Empire cope with the fact, that they had a regional monarch as an identety-figure and also the Kaiser. It is seldom mentioned in documentaries on WW1 that there had been other princes and kings in Germany during WW1 until their final dismission in 1918. What if the Prussians do not want any monarchs remain in 1871 , but rule the Reich in a different way ?