Btw, Wilhelmine? Low-key (compared to FW) Protestant or freethinker?
Freethinker, imo. Her being extremely sarcastic about the older Wittelsbach Empress' "Catholic superstitions" could be written off as anti-Catholic (though she is polite enough about some of the cardinals she meets in Italy), but she's also sarcastic about Dad's Protestant pietist crowd in her memoirs, and she didn't befriend a priest or lay theologian I can think of. When she's worried for someone, she doesn't mention their immortal soul.
Oh, and when she and the Margrave took off to Italy from France, apparantly someone - looking at Ulrike - spread rumors they were going to do a Queen Christina and convert to Catholicism, that this was their reason for going to Italy. Whereupon Wilhelmine, once this rumor reaches her, is all "WTF? As if I would!" (The Margrave, otoh, took the accusation seriously enough to make a quick journey back to Bayreuth (v. v. Protestant), reassure everyone he wasn't going to convert, and go back to Italy where Wilhelmine still was. (Which in the 17th century really meant enduring a lot of trouble for the sake of one denial in person.)
(Now what I really want to know was how Ulrike found out in Sweden about the Erlangen journalist who wrote those anti-Fritz articles. It's not like she could put Fritz on google alert, after all, and for an obscure German written newspaper to reach the Swedish court in time enough for this to be news to Fritz - Ulrike must have been employing a good intelligence service. Oh, and it's also worth pointing it it was her husband who joined the anti-Fritz alliance in the 7 years war.)
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Freethinker, imo. Her being extremely sarcastic about the older Wittelsbach Empress' "Catholic superstitions" could be written off as anti-Catholic (though she is polite enough about some of the cardinals she meets in Italy), but she's also sarcastic about Dad's Protestant pietist crowd in her memoirs, and she didn't befriend a priest or lay theologian I can think of. When she's worried for someone, she doesn't mention their immortal soul.
Oh, and when she and the Margrave took off to Italy from France, apparantly someone - looking at Ulrike - spread rumors they were going to do a Queen Christina and convert to Catholicism, that this was their reason for going to Italy. Whereupon Wilhelmine, once this rumor reaches her, is all "WTF? As if I would!" (The Margrave, otoh, took the accusation seriously enough to make a quick journey back to Bayreuth (v. v. Protestant), reassure everyone he wasn't going to convert, and go back to Italy where Wilhelmine still was. (Which in the 17th century really meant enduring a lot of trouble for the sake of one denial in person.)
(Now what I really want to know was how Ulrike found out in Sweden about the Erlangen journalist who wrote those anti-Fritz articles. It's not like she could put Fritz on google alert, after all, and for an obscure German written newspaper to reach the Swedish court in time enough for this to be news to Fritz - Ulrike must have been employing a good intelligence service. Oh, and it's also worth pointing it it was her husband who joined the anti-Fritz alliance in the 7 years war.)