King William V of England?

The ridiculous and repulsive Simon Heffer presumably thinks he’s making a clever point when he defends primogeniture in his column in the today’s Torygraph.

Kaiser Bill could have been the king of England
As if there aren’t bigger priorities, the Government is apparently planning to change the law so that the monarch’s daughter, if she is the eldest child, inherits the throne automatically. I know all about our great queens, not least Her present Majesty: but this would be a needless complication and could send the Royal house in all sorts of dangerous directions. The last time this would have been an issue was in 1901, when the Dowager Empress of Germany would have become queen of England for the seven months between the death of her mother, Queen Victoria, and her own demise. Her son, Kaiser Bill, would then have become king of England, which would have become part of the Second Reich. Just think how much fun that would have been.

Absolutely! And think how many thousands of English lives could have been saved, you fat little xenophobic fool.