Who's Who - Royalty
Updated - Saturday, 18 October, 2003

This sub-section of the Who's Who category of the site contains folio biographies of monarchs and their heirs who presided over nations at war from 1914-18.

Many were deprived of their crowns by the time war closed, as defeat and revolution gripped their countries.  Few emerged with their position even more secure, as did Britain's King George V.  More typical were abdications such as those by the German Kaiser and the Russian Tsar.

King Albert I, Belgium

King Alexander I, Serbia/Yugoslavia

Tsarina Alexandra, Russia

King Carol I, Romania

King Constantine I, Greece

Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary

King Ferdinand I, Romania

Tsar Ferdinand I, Bulgaria

Emperor Franz Josef I, Austria-Hungary

King George V, United Kingdom

Emperor Karl I/Charles IV, Austria-Hungary

Sultan Mehmed V, Turkey

Sultan Mehmed VI, Turkey

Grand Duke Mikhail, Monarch

Tsar Nicholas II, Russia

King Peter I, Serbia/Yugoslavia

King Vittorio Emanuele III, Italy

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Germany

Crown Prince Wilhelm, Germany

Combined German and Austrian casualties during 1915 were around half those suffered by the Russians: half a million.

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