Thank you for the instructive potato links and everything while you were at the conference! You're very dedicated. (If I were Fritz, I would question why you were at the conference in the first place and how it could possibly be more important than answering my questions, but since I'm not, I'll just say I'm glad it was a great conference. ;) The best ones are time-consuming and exhausting.)
I actually had missed that anecdote, but it surprises me not at all. Actually, the part that surprises me is how the hell this guy hadn't already been kidnapped. Since when did refusing to join the army keep you out of the army? Especially if you were tall? Especially at Neuruppin?? It barely worked outside of Prussia!
*moment of silence for all the shepherds and their ilk who just wanted to stay home*
Mind you, I had some distant family member who oral history says dodged being drafted (I want to say by the Wehrmacht in WWII) by hiding in trees and having the kids tell the soldiers at the door that Dad had gone off to war long ago. Whether this was post-War "I was never a Nazi!" history-rewriting, I do not know.
he wonders whether since Fritz ever paid MT (as her father‘s heir) back, since post-Silesia it‘s not like he was lacking for funds and revenues...
Lol, I would be *astonished*. The man periodically would do the hard right thing rather than the "this benefits me" thing (e.g. refusing to negotiate a subsidy with Britain until he could do so on more equal terms, saying he didn't want to be a burden to his allies), but my impression of the terms of his debts as Crown Prince to foreign courts was that he was trading not promises of specific amounts of money but generally being well-disposed toward their state in his future foreign policy, and well, that ship sailed in December 1740. :P I could be wrong; maybe he agreed to repay specific amounts of money, but I've read otherwise. (Mind you, I treat all biographies as novels and only believe things where I know what the evidence is, so this could be totally made up.)
And I'm also astonished there was a tall shepherd left at Neuruppin to be kidnapped, so impossible things are happening every day, as Rodgers and Hammerstein would say.
Oh, man, given what 18th century letters were like, I want to know how raunchy stuff had to get before it had to be edited out!
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Re: MT marriage AU, cont'd
Date: 2019-10-21 03:33 am (UTC)Thank you for the instructive potato links and everything while you were at the conference! You're very dedicated. (If I were Fritz, I would question why you were at the conference in the first place and how it could possibly be more important than answering my questions, but since I'm not, I'll just say I'm glad it was a great conference. ;) The best ones are time-consuming and exhausting.)
I actually had missed that anecdote, but it surprises me not at all. Actually, the part that surprises me is how the hell this guy hadn't already been kidnapped. Since when did refusing to join the army keep you out of the army? Especially if you were tall? Especially at Neuruppin?? It barely worked outside of Prussia!
*moment of silence for all the shepherds and their ilk who just wanted to stay home*
Mind you, I had some distant family member who oral history says dodged being drafted (I want to say by the Wehrmacht in WWII) by hiding in trees and having the kids tell the soldiers at the door that Dad had gone off to war long ago. Whether this was post-War "I was never a Nazi!" history-rewriting, I do not know.
he wonders whether since Fritz ever paid MT (as her father‘s heir) back, since post-Silesia it‘s not like he was lacking for funds and revenues...
Lol, I would be *astonished*. The man periodically would do the hard right thing rather than the "this benefits me" thing (e.g. refusing to negotiate a subsidy with Britain until he could do so on more equal terms, saying he didn't want to be a burden to his allies), but my impression of the terms of his debts as Crown Prince to foreign courts was that he was trading not promises of specific amounts of money but generally being well-disposed toward their state in his future foreign policy, and well, that ship sailed in December 1740. :P I could be wrong; maybe he agreed to repay specific amounts of money, but I've read otherwise. (Mind you, I treat all biographies as novels and only believe things where I know what the evidence is, so this could be totally made up.)
And I'm also astonished there was a tall shepherd left at Neuruppin to be kidnapped, so impossible things are happening every day, as Rodgers and Hammerstein would say.
Oh, man, given what 18th century letters were like, I want to know how raunchy stuff had to get before it had to be edited out!