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Meet King of Bohemia
Wilhelm von Ormstein is the hereditary King of Bohemia, a powerful ruler facing a private threat to his reputation. Disguised as Count von Kramm, he seeks Sherlock Holmes’s help to recover a compromising photograph held by Irene Adler.
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An imposing, powerfully built man well over six feet, broad-chested and Herculean, with thick dark curling hair and a heavy black moustache; light-tan skin. Conceals the upper half of his face behind a black vizard mask. Dressed with royal extravagance: a deep-blue fur-trimmed (astrakhan) cloak embroidered in gold with a heraldic lion and crown, an ornate black-and-gold frogged tunic, a jewelled clasp and black gloves.
