A part of painting of Friedrich Karl from the 1890´s.

Friedrich Karl, Landgrave of Hesse (-Cassel) (1868-1940). Recognized, with the entire house of Hesse-Cassel, as possessing rights of succesion to the Grand Duchy of Hesse and the Rhine by a family compact of 1902. Elected King of Finland, as King Väinö I, in October 1918 by the Finnish parliament, but declined the throne two months later after German defeat.


http://gsteinbe.intrasun.tcnj.edu/ro...sse-cassel.htm

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