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Show WIFE OF EX-KAISER DIES Former German Empress Augusta Victoria Passes Away at Doom. Doom, Holland. Former Empress Augusta Victoria of Germany (lied here April 11. Collapse of the central powers and the vicissitudes of war that drove former Emperor William of Germany and his consort into practical exile in Holland in November,' 1918, was the lowering of the curtain in the life of the once beautiful empress and queen of Prussia, Augusta Victoria, who, for nearly forty years, had been the most beloved hausfrau of the German Ger-man people. The former empress' gravest cloud, next to the abdication of William II. was the tragic death of her son. Prince Joachim, who committed suicide by shooting himself in Berlin in 1920. She was never informed, it is said, that Joachim 'had taken his own 'life. Another depressing event which haunted haunt-ed her was the Russian revolution and the fate that befell Emperor Nicholas and his family, with all of whom, before be-fore the war, she had been on the kindliest terms. Augusta Victoria" was notable chiefly chief-ly for her keen interest in charitable work and in the betterment of the living conditions of Ihe German poor. II: has been said of her that she was not an especially gifted woman and that she eared more fur the simple duties of home life than for royal functions. |