There's a reason I can write Fritz and (so far) not her!
Yeah, the immigrant thing is cool. All my sources agree that she was well-loved and everyone (people who knew her personally and residents in and around Berlin) sincerely grieved her when she died.
Fritz, in contrast, continued to be divisive after his death:
On the one hand: "For forty-six years, Frederick had tried to rule Prussia single-handed. If he had asked a great deal from himself, he had made just as many demands on his servants and subjects, high and low. How did they all feel when the iron band that held them to their labors finally snapped? According to Mirabeau, the general response was one of overwhelming relief. Whatever else it might prove to be, the next regime was certain to be more relaxed."
On the other: "A Frederick cult got under way at once, as entrepreneurs moved in to satisfy what was clearly a large and growing demand for memorabilia. His image was reproduced on drinking vessels, clocks, bracelets, ribbons, snuff-boxes and vivat ribbons, as well as in books, pamphlets, periodicals and calendars. Perhaps the most enterprising of all were the Pages brothers, who bought Frederick's clothes from the court chamberlain, dressed up a wax figure and then hawked it around Germany, France and the Habsburg Monarchy, making a fortune along the way. So valuable was it that they turned down an offer of 4,000 talers. They were soon flattered sincerely, as imitators hurried to cash in too; by the early nineteenth century, there were sixteen wax figures of Frederick on display in Berlin."
Re: Fritz's death
Yeah, the immigrant thing is cool. All my sources agree that she was well-loved and everyone (people who knew her personally and residents in and around Berlin) sincerely grieved her when she died.
Fritz, in contrast, continued to be divisive after his death:
On the one hand: "For forty-six years, Frederick had tried to rule Prussia single-handed. If he had asked a great deal from himself, he had made just as many demands on his servants and subjects, high and low. How did they all feel when the iron band that held them to their labors finally snapped? According to Mirabeau, the general response was one of overwhelming relief. Whatever else it might prove to be, the next regime was certain to be more relaxed."
On the other: "A Frederick cult got under way at once, as entrepreneurs moved in to satisfy what was clearly a large and growing demand for memorabilia. His image was reproduced on drinking vessels, clocks, bracelets, ribbons, snuff-boxes and vivat ribbons, as well as in books, pamphlets, periodicals and calendars. Perhaps the most enterprising of all were the Pages brothers, who bought Frederick's clothes from the court chamberlain, dressed up a wax figure and then hawked it around Germany, France and the Habsburg Monarchy, making a fortune along the way. So valuable was it that they turned down an offer of 4,000 talers. They were soon flattered sincerely, as imitators hurried to cash in too; by the early nineteenth century, there were sixteen wax figures of Frederick on display in Berlin."