Also, earlier today, before I read this, while writing up the Heinrich Situation for you, I found myself thinking, the best decision Fritz ever made was not to have kids.

Now hoping Mitford made the same wise decision. Too afraid to check.

Also, lol, this is young Fritz like five minutes after he entered into his own forced marriage, "Well, she doesn't seem to be getting pregnant despite our best efforts. I predict a childless marriage, but don't worry, Dad and Prussian subjects, no throne has ever been vacant for lack of heirs! I'm sure one of my nine living siblings will produce some candidates."

Everyone: "You're giving up on yours and your wife's fertility a little early, don't you think?"

History: *approaching 300 years of debating whether that marriage was ever even consummated*

Oh, Elizabeth Christine in later years: "Our childlessness was no fault of our own or of our marriage, it was due solely to Providence giving me an extremely gay husband," is what I think she meant when she said that. She absolutely 100% would have covered for him until her dying day. (She outlived him by several years, and died saying how nice he was, because she was kind of saintly like that.

Meanwhile, Fritz's attitude toward her was basically, "I may personally despise her lack of intellect and her piety and the fact that my father liked her and her total lack of penis, but that doesn't mean the rest of you, if you have the misfortune of running into her, don't need to pay her the respect due a queen. Far, far away from me."

Translated from the original French: "She has cooties."

EC: "He's so awesome. I'm so lucky to be married to him. Best king ever. Best husband ever."

If there's any evidence that EC thought guys had cooties, I haven't seen it, but writing this, I wonder. Saint or lesbian? I may have a new fanon. :P)