As his official biographer, Joachim von Kuerenberg, points out, the Kaiser was always careful to write both “Sein” (His), with reference to the Deity, and “Mein” (My), in alluding to himself, with capital letters. “This morning the All-Highest paid his respects to the Highest,” the Court Circular is alleged to have reported one Sunday. Wilhelm not only professed the anachronistic doctrine of the Divine Right of Kings — in defiance of the German and Prussian Constitutions — but gave it a neoabsolutist twist that sometimes resembled the royal totalitarianism of Louis XIV. “Regis voluntas,
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Full of himself
