Frederick III (1831-1888), Emperor of Germany, 1870. Frederick married Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Victoria in 1858. Cartoon from Vanity Fair, London, 1870, the year Frederick was made a field marshal and the year before he became Crown Prince of Germany. He became Emperor in 1888, but only ruled for 99 days before dying from throat cancer. (Photo by Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images)