Well the "Kaiser" wore a russian uniform on visit simply because he was officially appointed admiral of the russian navy. And well, he had also the admirals title of the English navy, so you could find pictures of him in an english admirals uniform too. ;) And its not some eccentricity exclusive to the kaiser - you err on the english/russian uniform - both the Csar and English King are shown wearing german uniforms on that photo ;) (photo with descr. can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom)
And by the way the Kaiser was another cousin to them. William and King George V grandma was Queen Victoria. And while not being 1.degree cousins like George V and Nicholas II who share the danish king Christian IX and Louise von Hessen as their grandparents, the wife of Nicholas was a cousin of William. So all one big family
Sadly, the winner Barbara Howard preferred the money in the end instead of the house and so the house was sold later to an KB Employee, who hasn't had any sympathy for the Simpsons and destroyed as much as possible anything which ressembled to the Simpsons home like the bright colours, fence, Bart's tree house etcetc. and so today the only reminiscence to the real Simpson's house are the upper row of the bricks of the chimney and the Homer head with Groenings signature on the sidewalk.
There was an interesting article in the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" in July: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,496436,00.html
(Sry only in german)
PS: It must have been a great little copy and there was the oil stain in the garage like as in the "original" house.
Well the "Kaiser" wore a russian uniform on visit simply because he was officially appointed admiral of the russian navy. And well, he had also the admirals title of the English navy, so you could find pictures of him in an english admirals uniform too. ;)
And its not some eccentricity exclusive to the kaiser - you err on the english/russian uniform - both the Csar and English King are shown wearing german uniforms on that photo ;) (photo with descr. can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_V_of_the_United_Kingdom)
And by the way the Kaiser was another cousin to them. William and King George V grandma was Queen Victoria.
And while not being 1.degree cousins like George V and Nicholas II who share the danish king Christian IX and Louise von Hessen as their grandparents, the wife of Nicholas was a cousin of William. So all one big family
There was an interesting article in the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" in July: http://www.spiegel.de/reise/fernweh/0,1518,496436,00.html
(Sry only in german)
PS: It must have been a great little copy and there was the oil stain in the garage like as in the "original" house.