An interesting use of facial hair to signal status and wealth. For the amount of time, staff attention and beeswax needed to achieve this look every day for decades tells us this was not the moustache of the everyday man.
Entirely misunderstood and unfairly reduced to a caricature.
He wanted to avoid war at all costs, and had a genuine fascination with the arts and business which he personally involved himself in and allowed his reign to be a wonderful juxtaposition of modernity and historicism.