A lot was new to or forgotten by me, too. Such as the fact that old Louis XIV was apparantly intrigued enough by the Sophia Dorothea/Königsmarck/G1 scandal to ask his sister-in-law, Liselotte von der Pfalz, whether or not G1 did the deed. She basically replied with "how the hell should I know? Get your own German gossip, Sire!"
Amelia: she comes across as sane and sympathetic to me, too. (The most negative Thing I know is her own variation of the "miller sues Fritz" Story which is still one of the most popular Old Fritz legends in Germany. (She got (successfully) sued for wanting to cancel public access to Richmond Park.) However: she still had a medaillon of Fritz as a Crown prince with her when she died, unmarried, she comes across as a determined, strong willed Woman, and she probably had an illegitimate child. This strikes me as a fatal combination for the thankless job of being Fritz' beard, since she would have had romantic expectations of him, and I doubt she'd have been satisfied with dinner once a year and not even political power and glamour to compensate. At the very least, I can see her Looking for love elsewhere, and somehow I doubt Fritz would have been as understanding as he was about his nephew's wife producing an illegitimate child.
Re: God save our Saxon cousins
Amelia: she comes across as sane and sympathetic to me, too. (The most negative Thing I know is her own variation of the "miller sues Fritz" Story which is still one of the most popular Old Fritz legends in Germany. (She got (successfully) sued for wanting to cancel public access to Richmond Park.) However: she still had a medaillon of Fritz as a Crown prince with her when she died, unmarried, she comes across as a determined, strong willed Woman, and she probably had an illegitimate child. This strikes me as a fatal combination for the thankless job of being Fritz' beard, since she would have had romantic expectations of him, and I doubt she'd have been satisfied with dinner once a year and not even political power and glamour to compensate. At the very least, I can see her Looking for love elsewhere, and somehow I doubt Fritz would have been as understanding as he was about his nephew's wife producing an illegitimate child.