Thank you for expanding on the complicated plots in Schiller! That does make sense. This thread continues to be very educational.
I actually had "talk about the conspiring with foreign powers" aspect of the plot on my list of things to talk about today, so thank you for summarizing that so I don't have to. :D Among other things, there's some evidence that Friedrich's ability to tolerate what his father was putting him through vs. his desires to run away fluctuated in sync with the changes in his marital prospects.
Also, due to vague wording in my sources, I had been under the impression that the 1,500 letters were the incriminating letters between Friedrich and Wilhelmina relating to the escape attempt. If that number also included the foreign correspondence and anything related to the double marriage negotiations, that makes far more sense. (I admit to not memorizing the dozens of pages of chronology related to all those marriage negotiations before and after 1730, omg.)
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I actually had "talk about the conspiring with foreign powers" aspect of the plot on my list of things to talk about today, so thank you for summarizing that so I don't have to. :D Among other things, there's some evidence that Friedrich's ability to tolerate what his father was putting him through vs. his desires to run away fluctuated in sync with the changes in his marital prospects.
Also, due to vague wording in my sources, I had been under the impression that the 1,500 letters were the incriminating letters between Friedrich and Wilhelmina relating to the escape attempt. If that number also included the foreign correspondence and anything related to the double marriage negotiations, that makes far more sense. (I admit to not memorizing the dozens of pages of chronology related to all those marriage negotiations before and after 1730, omg.)