Yeah, AW was the kid who was willing to go along with what Dad wanted and agree that the army was cool.
Fritz's take on this was "NO, you're WRONG. Dad's army wasn't cool at all. Only MY army is cool. And you and your oldest son [future Friedrich Wilhelm II] are going to get in major trouble for not adequately respecting the cool factor of MY army."
FW 2, who also got mistreated by Fritz, was the one who, the moment Fritz was safely dead, was like, "Fuck you and your dogs and your burial at Sanssouci like a Roman philosopher, Uncle Fritz, you're getting buried in a CHURCH. With POMP and CIRCUMSTANCE. Next to your DAD!"
No, unless Selenak knows something I don't, I don't think he specifically did this to spite Fritz's atheistic principles and to rub in the part about abusive Dad, I suspect his thinking was that that's what you do with kings and Grandpa was a pretty great king himself, but still. Fritz's last wishes definitely took second place to doing things the Right Way. (Mind you, this was another of those awesome family traditions: Fritz had ignored *his* father's wishes about the disposal of his remains, albeit I think less blatantly.)
Also FW 2: "Shit, we gotta do something about all that homoeroticism at Sanssouci too, that's embarrassing. Plus he didn't like me being ultra-het, so there. Karma is a bitch, Fritz."
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Re: Our Insane Family: The Next Generation
Date: 2019-08-22 02:57 pm (UTC)Fritz's take on this was "NO, you're WRONG. Dad's army wasn't cool at all. Only MY army is cool. And you and your oldest son [future Friedrich Wilhelm II] are going to get in major trouble for not adequately respecting the cool factor of MY army."
FW 2, who also got mistreated by Fritz, was the one who, the moment Fritz was safely dead, was like, "Fuck you and your dogs and your burial at Sanssouci like a Roman philosopher, Uncle Fritz, you're getting buried in a CHURCH. With POMP and CIRCUMSTANCE. Next to your DAD!"
No, unless Selenak knows something I don't, I don't think he specifically did this to spite Fritz's atheistic principles and to rub in the part about abusive Dad, I suspect his thinking was that that's what you do with kings and Grandpa was a pretty great king himself, but still. Fritz's last wishes definitely took second place to doing things the Right Way. (Mind you, this was another of those awesome family traditions: Fritz had ignored *his* father's wishes about the disposal of his remains, albeit I think less blatantly.)
Also FW 2: "Shit, we gotta do something about all that homoeroticism at Sanssouci too, that's embarrassing. Plus he didn't like me being ultra-het, so there. Karma is a bitch, Fritz."