*nods* At first (I mean, when you guys first started telling me stories) I was trying to give Old Fritz a somewhat similar psychological profile to, say, yours, but the more you tell me, the more obvious it is that this isn't the case -- that he really loved the people he loved in a very emotional way, and would probably have been a lot happier if he'd had better relationship skills.

Wilhelmine is interesting because it looks to me like she had (or was forced to get) mad people skills (which Voltaire noticed, haha) but she still had a crap life because she was a woman and women just often had crap lives, unless they were lucky enough to be Maria Theresia, I guess. (And even then, I still boggle at the 16 kids. Geesh.)