I checked up Wilhelmine's travel correspondance again, and it turns out not just did the Margrave make his imprompto trip to Bayreuth and back to Italy to deny there was any Popery going on with him and Wihelmine but Fritz wrote to her: "By the way, sis, rumor has reached me that, etc., and I know it's stupid, but could you please pass through Geneva on your way back and visit Calvin's birthplace or something like that?" Whereupon Wilhelmine replies that yes, this was really stupid, but, and now I'm actually quoting again, "for you, I will make my salamaleikums in Geneva".
Which tells you that free thinkers or not, Fritz and Wilhelmine were aware that the Hohenzollern must never appear to be anything but Protestants in public. (Also that Wilhelmine in 1754 was either via the 10001 Nights (she must have read the French translation) or through other means aware enough of (at least some of)Islam to make the "my salamaleikums" joke.
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Re: MT marriage AU
Date: 2019-10-30 04:42 pm (UTC)Which tells you that free thinkers or not, Fritz and Wilhelmine were aware that the Hohenzollern must never appear to be anything but Protestants in public. (Also that Wilhelmine in 1754 was either via the 10001 Nights (she must have read the French translation) or through other means aware enough of (at least some of)Islam to make the "my salamaleikums" joke.