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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 .)

I had no idea that Scandinavia was such a hotbed of... gossipy sensationalism... Although at least from the movie synopsis, it seems to be the case that a large part of the problem was that Struensee went after power, which doesn't seem to have been so much the case here?

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.

!!This is amazing.

(Leopold to Joseph: Aren't you glad Mom didn't marry little Toni to Gustav instead of Louis?
Joseph: Not funny, Poldl.)

Well... I dunno... at least she would have gotten hands-on tutorials? And it seems like it would be less embarrassing to get instructions from well-known sex machine than from one's older brother, but maybe this is me having twenty-first century squicks :D

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.

lol forever. Woooooow. That is some major major contortions there, that is hilarious.

And he's totally straight in the Verdi opera, too!

HAHAHAHA