Victoria distressed at reports about her daughter

September 23, 1900

Queen Victoria is said to be distressed at reports about the declining health of her eldest daughter, Victoria (Empress Friedrich), who is "now unable to walk," according to a report in the Chicago Daily Tribune. The empress, who is the mother of Kaiser Wilhelm II, is "taken around in a bath chair," and is described as feeble, "and looks almost as old as the Queen herself."
Doctors have advised that Victoria not travel to Germany to visit her daughter as the "proposed visit might be injurious to both."