Yes, died, and poor EC, losing not one but two brothers in Frederician battles...
re: Fritz visiting Wilhelmine's burial site: I don't know. If he ever visited Bayreuth again after her death, he probably did, but just about the only occasion he might have done that I can think of is when the Margrave married again, Wilhelmine's (and Fritz') niece no less, Charlotte's daughter Sophie Caroline. (As if to make a point about Marx' statement re: history repeating itself from tragedy to farce, Sophie Caroline was supposed to marry Prince George of England before ending up with the Margrave to keep up the alliance. They didn't have a son, either, or any kid, the marriage lasted only three years and then he died. Caroline moved to Erlangen as her widow's seat and got chummy with cousin FW II, aka Fritz unloved successor.
Speaking of burials, when I googled I learned that when the German government re-buried Fritz according to his own wishes centuries after the first burial, the "minimal attendance" he requested consisted of a priest, the head of the House of Hohenzollern then (Prince Louis Ferdinand, now deceased; the new head is the guy who wants money from the German state and got a lot of bile about Willy and son of Willy in response) and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. I have no idea who attended FW's reburial, though...
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Re: speaking of musical relationships....
Date: 2019-10-14 12:27 pm (UTC)re: Fritz visiting Wilhelmine's burial site: I don't know. If he ever visited Bayreuth again after her death, he probably did, but just about the only occasion he might have done that I can think of is when the Margrave married again, Wilhelmine's (and Fritz') niece no less, Charlotte's daughter Sophie Caroline. (As if to make a point about Marx' statement re: history repeating itself from tragedy to farce, Sophie Caroline was supposed to marry Prince George of England before ending up with the Margrave to keep up the alliance. They didn't have a son, either, or any kid, the marriage lasted only three years and then he died. Caroline moved to Erlangen as her widow's seat and got chummy with cousin FW II, aka Fritz unloved successor.
Speaking of burials, when I googled I learned that when the German government re-buried Fritz according to his own wishes centuries after the first burial, the "minimal attendance" he requested consisted of a priest, the head of the House of Hohenzollern then (Prince Louis Ferdinand, now deceased; the new head is the guy who wants money from the German state and got a lot of bile about Willy and son of Willy in response) and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. I have no idea who attended FW's reburial, though...