I know, right? It's also, shall we say, an iiiinteresting comment given his own marital circumstances. Quoth Fritz, in his memoirs: "The husband, young and without manners, was daily unfaithful to his wife. (…) The princess who was at the prime of her beauty was insulted by the lack of attention paid to her charms, and was provoked to avenge the injustice done to her."
(German Version of quote which I had looked up: "„Der Ehemann, jung und ohne Sitten, […] brach seiner Frau täglich die Treue. […] Die Prinzessin, die in der Blüte ihrer Schönheit stand, fand sich von der geringen Aufmerksamkeit, die man ihren Reizen zollte, beleidigt, fühlte sich angestachelt, sich für das Unrecht, das man ihr angetan hatte, zu rächen.“ )
Now, future FW2 had managed to get a divorce because his wife was pregnant with a kid that really could not have been his (as they didn't have sex with each other, only with other people), so Fritz HAD to give his okay for said divorce they both wanted, or allow an obvious non-Hohenzollern into the succession, but he was extremely disgruntled about having to do this and immediately insisted on FW2 marrying another princess. What really slays me is the the Feminist Fritz pose here. I mean… do you really want to talk Princes not paying attention to the charms of their wives, Fritz? Really?
(Still not FW2 made Uncle Fritz officially recognize Wilhelmine Encke as his Maitresse en titre, though, officially, in 1777. With a yearly rent paid by the crown and a house in Charlottenburg. This was probably the most impressive battle he ever won in his life.)
Re: Our Insane Family: The Next Generation
I know, right? It's also, shall we say, an iiiinteresting comment given his own marital circumstances. Quoth Fritz, in his memoirs:
"The husband, young and without manners, was daily unfaithful to his wife. (…) The princess who was at the prime of her beauty was insulted by the lack of attention paid to her charms, and was provoked to avenge the injustice done to her."
(German Version of quote which I had looked up: "„Der Ehemann, jung und ohne Sitten, […] brach seiner Frau täglich die Treue. […] Die Prinzessin, die in der Blüte ihrer Schönheit stand, fand sich von der geringen Aufmerksamkeit, die man ihren Reizen zollte, beleidigt, fühlte sich angestachelt, sich für das Unrecht, das man ihr angetan hatte, zu rächen.“ )
Now, future FW2 had managed to get a divorce because his wife was pregnant with a kid that really could not have been his (as they didn't have sex with each other, only with other people), so Fritz HAD to give his okay for said divorce they both wanted, or allow an obvious non-Hohenzollern into the succession, but he was extremely disgruntled about having to do this and immediately insisted on FW2 marrying another princess. What really slays me is the the Feminist Fritz pose here. I mean… do you really want to talk Princes not paying attention to the charms of their wives, Fritz? Really?
(Still not FW2 made Uncle Fritz officially recognize Wilhelmine Encke as his Maitresse en titre, though, officially, in 1777. With a yearly rent paid by the crown and a house in Charlottenburg. This was probably the most impressive battle he ever won in his life.)