Wait, are you saying that you didn't realize it was real even after both of us had independently mentioned it to you, not just after my original long-ago allusion to this anecdote? That's hilarious. (I mean, since mine was long ago and in strikethrough and in a very unrelated discussion*, I can imagine you had long since forgotten about it by the time we got to Elisabeth Mara, but...Oh, Fritz.)

* Which also contains an allusion to the suckiest condolence letter of all times.

Also, selenak, that also contains a reference to the Heinrich-Friedrich-Marwitz (different Marwitz) lust triangle, and I am dying to know if you know the story behind that, because I've read contradictory versions from sources I don't trust. And also, the name Marwitz spells bad news for the Hohenzollern siblings in their love and sex lives, apparently.