2-716-822 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'The Court of the Kaiser', 1910. 'The Ceremony of the Black Eagle on the Emperor's Birthday'. The conferring of the Order of the Black Eagle, held at the Berlin City Palace on 27 January, birthday of German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941). The Black Eagle was the highest order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia. Wilhelm continued to award the order to his family after he was deposed in 1918. From "The Strand Magazine, an illustrated monthly", Volume XL - July to December 1910. [George Newnes Ltd, London, 1910]