"Dude, did I ask you to write a "MT, Hot or Not?" assessment?
AHAHAHAHAAA, I'm laughing so hard you have no idea. Fritz! Bielfeld wrote a "Hot or Not" assessment of you in 1738! Admittedly to his brother in a personal capacity, and not to his monarch in an official capacity. Still.
Now if you've seen any portrait of MT, at whatever age, you might be tempted to exclaim "simple?". But leaving aside all portraits use carefully chosen costumes;
Ooh, yes, the part about the hoop is very interesting, but indeed, I would never take a portrait to be representative of a monarch's everyday wear. I have in fact read that the way Fritz was always depicted in uniform after he became king was because that's how he appeared in public and the only way he wanted to be depicted; at home in the palace, he was still attending balls in the kind of fancy French dress that his father objected to so much when he was younger. Which, of course, is completely contrary to the myth of Old Fritz.
she was only driven by the ambition to enlarge her territory
Quelle horreur! A monarch driven only by the ambition to enlarge their territory!
I think I've invoked this quote before, but I can't help it: every time someone gets mad at MT for fighting to regain Silesia, all I can think of is Vizzini. "You're trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen!"
Re: What the Prussian Ambassador Wrote
AHAHAHAHAAA, I'm laughing so hard you have no idea. Fritz! Bielfeld wrote a "Hot or Not" assessment of you in 1738! Admittedly to his brother in a personal capacity, and not to his monarch in an official capacity. Still.
Now if you've seen any portrait of MT, at whatever age, you might be tempted to exclaim "simple?". But leaving aside all portraits use carefully chosen costumes;
Ooh, yes, the part about the hoop is very interesting, but indeed, I would never take a portrait to be representative of a monarch's everyday wear. I have in fact read that the way Fritz was always depicted in uniform after he became king was because that's how he appeared in public and the only way he wanted to be depicted; at home in the palace, he was still attending balls in the kind of fancy French dress that his father objected to so much when he was younger. Which, of course, is completely contrary to the myth of Old Fritz.
she was only driven by the ambition to enlarge her territory
Quelle horreur! A monarch driven only by the ambition to enlarge their territory!
I think I've invoked this quote before, but I can't help it: every time someone gets mad at MT for fighting to regain Silesia, all I can think of is Vizzini. "You're trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen!"