For the first time, the most submissive public opinion in Europe revolted. One irreverent German cartoonist even went so far as to portray the Old Emperor, Wilhelm I, trying to intercede with the Almighty on behalf of his grandson on the grounds that it was due to the Divine Grace, after all, that he sat on the throne (an allusion to one of the Kaiser’s famous speeches). “Now you want to put the blame on me,” God replies.
