Thanks for your kind words! This really is an amazing place for exhanging thoughts and information.
Prince Wilhelm - well... He did write his memoirs, but personally I find it interesting to read other people´s comments about him, especially Lennart´s. Maybe this is the wrong place, the forum has a section for personal history, but here goes in short:
PeWe, as he was called (or William), b 1884, d 1965, was a bit of a withdrawn person but he was a member of the Royal family and therefore a (popular) public figure. He was Victoria´s favourite son, which might explain why his relationship to the older brother Gustav Adolf never was the best. W also had the courage to live an unconventional life, building up a career as a filmmaker and poet after splitting up with Maria Pavlovna. It was a marriage of convenience, forced upon them to strengthen the political relationship between Sweden & Russia. (As late as 1908!) The country house named Stenhammar, where they spent relatively happy summers as newlyweds, remained W´s permanent home although he travelled a lot. A lady named Jeanne Tramcourt was W´s semiofficial partner for nearly 30 years, but they never married. (Marriage between a prince and a mondaine French divorcée was impossible. Married or unmarried - which was most chocking, really?) She entered the stage very early, which explains W´s total lack of interest in Maria P. They seem to have had a happy life, but Madame Tramcourt could be a bit bossy and jealous of W´s relationship to other people. When Maria Pavlovna had "fled" from Sweden W and Lennart became quite close, but they seldom lived together.
This is growing to an essay, so I´d better stop here!
Petri