Agreed, *but*...I'm not saying Fritz makes a good husband in any therapy-less universe, especially not to a woman (Fredersdorf might have his own take on this), but do you think he might have been willing to make more of an effort with Amelia than with EC? EC had a *lot* of strikes going against her, the biggest one being named FW.
At the very least, though I'm doubtful about the sex and pretty sure he would have kept her at arm's reach from political power as best he could, she might have gotten more glamour and more romance (at least for show) from Fritz than one dinner a year.
He would no way have excused an illegitimate child, but I have to feel that she might not have gone that far if married, out of self-preservation if nothing else. Especially if they'd managed to keep the marriage from degenerating as badly as FW & SD--not a happy marriage, certainly, but possibly a successful arranged marriage.
I guess what I'm saying is: a marriage that Fritz has fought hard *against* and lost is potentially a different animal from a marriage that he's fought hard *for* and won, even if Fritz remains the same person (and a potentially less bitter person, at that, for not having lost the marriage battle while imprisoned).
Re: God save our Saxon cousins
At the very least, though I'm doubtful about the sex and pretty sure he would have kept her at arm's reach from political power as best he could, she might have gotten more glamour and more romance (at least for show) from Fritz than one dinner a year.
He would no way have excused an illegitimate child, but I have to feel that she might not have gone that far if married, out of self-preservation if nothing else. Especially if they'd managed to keep the marriage from degenerating as badly as FW & SD--not a happy marriage, certainly, but possibly a successful arranged marriage.
I guess what I'm saying is: a marriage that Fritz has fought hard *against* and lost is potentially a different animal from a marriage that he's fought hard *for* and won, even if Fritz remains the same person (and a potentially less bitter person, at that, for not having lost the marriage battle while imprisoned).