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Prussian Prince Wilhelm Signed Royal Presentation Photo Document German Royalty :
$399.95

LOT-P127. For your consideration is an exceedingly rare and historically important original antique / vintage c.1990 royal presentation photograph of Wilhelm Karl Prinz von Preussen and Royal Prussian family, hand-signed by Wilhelm Karl, Prince of Prussia. Royal Prussian / Germany presentation photograph measures approximately 6.0\" x 4.0\". Royalty photograph is manuscript hand-signed and inscribed in metallic gold ink. Presentation photograph is original. Condition is original / fine. Museum quality. One of a kind. Guaranteed authentic.

Wilhelm Karl Adalbert Erich Detloff Prinz von Preussen (30 January 1922, in Potsdam – 9 April 2007, in Holzminden) was the third son of Prince Oskar of Prussia, and the last surviving grandson of Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor. He was the thirty-sixth Master of Knights (Herrenmeister) of the Protestant (and largely German) Order of Saint John (Bailiwick of Brandenburg), also known as Der Johanniterorden, as his father\'s successor and his son\'s predecessor.

Wilhelm-Karl was the youngest of Prince Oskar of Prussia and Countess Ina Marie von Bassewitz\'s four children. Having been admitted to the Bailiwick of Brandenburg of the Order of Saint John of the Hospital at Jerusalem (known unofficially as the Johanniterorden, the Protestant successor of the mediaeval Knights Hospitaller) in 1944, he later succeeded his father as its head, serving as the thirty-sixth Herrenmeister (\"Master of the Knights\") of the Order from 1958 until 1999. Wilhelm-Karl worked tirelessly[citation needed] to keep the Order intact during the Cold War and helped to reunite its membership after the fall of East Germany.

Amongst other orders and awards, Wilhelm-Karl received the Grand Merit Cross (with star) of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Grand Cross of the Order pro merito Melitensi of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.

In 1952, Wilhelm-Karl married Armgard Else Helene von Veltheim (17 February 1926 - 1 November 2019), daughter of Friedrich von Veltheim (1881-1955) and his wife, Ottonie von Alvensleben (1883-1960). The couple had two sons and a daughter:

Donata-Viktoria Prinzessin von Preussen (born 24 December 1952).

Wilhelm-Karl Prinz von Preussen (born 25 August 1955).

Oskar Prinz von Preussen (born 6 May 1959); historian, succeeded his father as the Master of the Knights of the Johanniterorden, he married Auguste Zimmermann von Siefart (born 16 May 1962), daughter of Ralf Emil Eberhard Jules Henning Zimmermann von Siefart (b. 1925) and Maria Ida Barbara Helene von Frankenberg und Proschlitz (b. 1930). The couple has two sons and a daughter.