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cahn ([personal profile] cahn) wrote 2019-11-09 10:55 pm (UTC)

Re: Wilhelmine

And then I think she became to SD a second chance to get the life SD herself wanted to have, second hand: Queen of England, not stuck in tiny Prussia with this awful, weird husband whose mannerisms make him the laughing stock of European princes.

Huh. This is making a lot of sense to me of a lot of what Wilhelmine says in her memoirs.

So part of me is thinking that presumably Fritz' governess, being both another servant and in charge of a child who plays a lot with Wilhelmine, is in fact somewhat more likely to notice than SD. But on the other hand I can't imagine, say, Maria Theresia not noticing her kid is getting beat up on a regular basis so badly she might get permanently crippled, whether the servants are raising the kid or not.

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