But at least for Fritz, I would say post FW's death he has a "no one gets to diss my father but me" attitude.
This. This is exactly Fritz post-FW's death. And Fritz goes overboard trying to be fair to FW, praising him to the skies as king and downplaying the abuse (while still acknowledging it).
I suspect Wilhelmine would have tried to shut down the discussion early on, knowing nothing good could come of it, and she wouldn't have given her own opinion, but if Fritz afterwards, outside of everyone's earshot, had said something along the lines of "can you believe Amalie maligning Mom like that?", she might have replied "Well, Mom was a good mother...to you."
Re: Hohenzollern Family Reunion
This. This is exactly Fritz post-FW's death. And Fritz goes overboard trying to be fair to FW, praising him to the skies as king and downplaying the abuse (while still acknowledging it).
I suspect Wilhelmine would have tried to shut down the discussion early on, knowing nothing good could come of it, and she wouldn't have given her own opinion, but if Fritz afterwards, outside of everyone's earshot, had said something along the lines of "can you believe Amalie maligning Mom like that?", she might have replied "Well, Mom was a good mother...to you."
That seems plausible to me.