Munck appears to have been quite aware of how the triangle in neighbouring Denmark with Queen, Queen's lover and King who is friends with Queen's lover who is also his doctor had ended - badly for the Queen and the lover. (More here; the Queen in question, btw, was a Hannover cousin of Fritz and Wilhelmine's .)
He even had the chambermaid (aka the one Munck had originally been involved with) and one of Sophia Magdalena's ladies in waiting testify that he, Munck, had been required to touch both the King and the Queen as part of the "instructions", that it had been Gustav's idea and he, Munck, was only servicing the royal couple as had been asked.
(Leopold to Joseph: Aren't you glad Mom didn't marry little Toni to Gustav instead of Louis? Joseph: Not funny, Poldl.)
Something else the rabbit hole going revealed to me: historians apparently went into contortions re: Gustav's sexuality as much as they did about Fritz. Post-heir getting, this happened:
Gustav's sister-in-law Charlotte in a letter: Guess what, the King proposed to a young man in the park and was turned down.
Historians: Slander! Caused by family feud.
Queen Sophia Magdalena: *finds a naked hot page in Gustav's bed, though minus Gustav*
Traditional historians: Must have been lost for directions and passed out. Says something about the informality of the Gustavian court, clearly. I mean, Gustav did have female crushes as a young man, didn't he? And he's totally straight in the Verdi opera, too!
Also I learned that Ulrike, in true Hohenzollern insulting one's offspring in publich spirit, reacted thusly when first shown the portrait of her future daughter-in-law (at a formal presentation of said portrait to the crown prince, i.e. Gustav):
"Why Gustav, you seem to be in love with her already. She looks stupid."
Charles the scheming ambitious brother after the murder of Gustav (Charles: I had nothing to do with that! That could be proven, anyway) became regent for little Gustav IV Adolf (born nine months after successful "instruction" by Munck); then, when his nephew ascended to the throne upon reaching his majority, conspired with the nobility against him, with the net result being that Gustav IV Adolf was forced to abdicate. Charles then finally became King in his own right, but alas for him...
Napoleon: It's a new age, what can I say. Charles: *has stroke* Swedish Parliament: We have a King severely disabled by a stroke and no surviving son. Also we have the Russians on one border and continental Europe ruled by Napoleon on the other. How about the King is made to adopt one of Napoleon's marshals as his heir?
Gustav IV Adolf *in exile*: So, I'm not good enough because I'm possibly the son of a Finnish sex machine, but a French commoner who has "death to kings" tattood on his arm is?
Charles (or rather, the parliament for him): Please greet our new crown prince and future king, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, aka Karl Johan of Sweden!
Re: Meanwhile, in Sweden
He even had the chambermaid (aka the one Munck had originally been involved with) and one of Sophia Magdalena's ladies in waiting testify that he, Munck, had been required to touch both the King and the Queen as part of the "instructions", that it had been Gustav's idea and he, Munck, was only servicing the royal couple as had been asked.
(Leopold to Joseph: Aren't you glad Mom didn't marry little Toni to Gustav instead of Louis?
Joseph: Not funny, Poldl.)
Something else the rabbit hole going revealed to me: historians apparently went into contortions re: Gustav's sexuality as much as they did about Fritz. Post-heir getting, this happened:
Gustav's sister-in-law Charlotte in a letter: Guess what, the King proposed to a young man in the park and was turned down.
Historians: Slander! Caused by family feud.
Queen Sophia Magdalena: *finds a naked hot page in Gustav's bed, though minus Gustav*
Traditional historians: Must have been lost for directions and passed out. Says something about the informality of the Gustavian court, clearly. I mean, Gustav did have female crushes as a young man, didn't he? And he's totally straight in the Verdi opera, too!
Also I learned that Ulrike, in true Hohenzollern insulting one's offspring in publich spirit, reacted thusly when first shown the portrait of her future daughter-in-law (at a formal presentation of said portrait to the crown prince, i.e. Gustav):
"Why Gustav, you seem to be in love with her already. She looks stupid."
Charles the scheming ambitious brother after the murder of Gustav (Charles: I had nothing to do with that! That could be proven, anyway) became regent for little Gustav IV Adolf (born nine months after successful "instruction" by Munck); then, when his nephew ascended to the throne upon reaching his majority, conspired with the nobility against him, with the net result being that Gustav IV Adolf was forced to abdicate. Charles then finally became King in his own right, but alas for him...
Napoleon: It's a new age, what can I say.
Charles: *has stroke*
Swedish Parliament: We have a King severely disabled by a stroke and no surviving son. Also we have the Russians on one border and continental Europe ruled by Napoleon on the other. How about the King is made to adopt one of Napoleon's marshals as his heir?
Gustav IV Adolf *in exile*: So, I'm not good enough because I'm possibly the son of a Finnish sex machine, but a French commoner who has "death to kings" tattood on his arm is?
Charles (or rather, the parliament for him): Please greet our new crown prince and future king, Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, aka Karl Johan of Sweden!