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Second wife of Wilhelm II of Germany

Princess Hermine Reuss of Greiz (German: Hermine, Prinzessin Reuß zu Greiz;^[1][2] 17 December 1887 – 7 August 1947) was the second wife of Wilhelm II, German Emperor.

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They were married in 1922, four years after he abdicated. Wilhelm was her second husband; her first husband, Prince Johann of Schönaich-Carolath, had died in 1920. She was called Empress Hermine by some supporters of the Hohenzollern dynasty.

Early life

Princess Hermine was born in Greiz as the fifth child and fourth daughter of Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (28 March 1846 – 19 April 1902), and his wife, Princess Ida Mathilde Adelheid of Schaumburg-Lippe (28 July 1852 – 28 September 1891), daughter of Adolf I, Prince of Schaumburg-Lippe.

Her father was the ruler of the Principality of Reuss-Greiz, a state of the German Empire, in what is present-day Thuringia. Princess Hermine's disabled elder brother