Uh... Kaiser Wilhelm WTF??
This instance reminds me of some of those scenes from Family Guy spoofing George W. Bush. Unfortunately the following is painfully factual, and dare I say?, effin' historical:
" In an effort to distract him, the kaiser's entourage decided to put on an entertainment, the kind that amused him: a ballet spectacular performed by the middle-aged members of his various cabinets. The climax was a performance by Field Marshal Count Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, the hefty, fifty-six-year-old chief of Wilhelm's military cabinet. Described in some sources as wearing a pink tutu ("not for the first time," Zedlitz-Trützschler wrote), in others a pink ball gown--what was undisputed was that he was in drag--with a large feater in his hair, he performed a series of energetic pirouettes, jumps and capers, flirtatiously blew kisses to his audience, stumbled off the stage and suffered a massive heart attack that killed him instantly. It was reported that by the time the doctors arrived, rigor mortis was so far advanced that it was extremely difficult to get Hülsen out of his tutu and into his military uniform. The story made Wilhelm look even more irresponsible and odd; in the French, Italian and British papers there were gleeful screeds about German moral degeneracy."
-- Miranda Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
........ So, uh, yeah.
" In an effort to distract him, the kaiser's entourage decided to put on an entertainment, the kind that amused him: a ballet spectacular performed by the middle-aged members of his various cabinets. The climax was a performance by Field Marshal Count Dietrich von Hülsen-Haeseler, the hefty, fifty-six-year-old chief of Wilhelm's military cabinet. Described in some sources as wearing a pink tutu ("not for the first time," Zedlitz-Trützschler wrote), in others a pink ball gown--what was undisputed was that he was in drag--with a large feater in his hair, he performed a series of energetic pirouettes, jumps and capers, flirtatiously blew kisses to his audience, stumbled off the stage and suffered a massive heart attack that killed him instantly. It was reported that by the time the doctors arrived, rigor mortis was so far advanced that it was extremely difficult to get Hülsen out of his tutu and into his military uniform. The story made Wilhelm look even more irresponsible and odd; in the French, Italian and British papers there were gleeful screeds about German moral degeneracy."
-- Miranda Carter, George, Nicholas and Wilhelm: Three Royal Cousins and the Road to World War I
........ So, uh, yeah.