Barbarina: it's a shame that final guy turned out to be a less than stellar choice (seriously, Fritz actually turns out to have a good instinct for lousy husbands/boyfriends - all accidents due to his Control issues, or character insight?) , but other than that, she seems to have lived the unapologetic life of a rococo superstar on her terms - good for her!
Lehndorff is nothing if not consistent! I admire your focus (Hotham notwithstanding).
Given that Heinrich keeps changing boyfriends, Lehndorff is allowed one alternate True Love. Incidentally, note that 1906!Editor does not try to sell us Lehndorff's feelings for his prince or for Dearest Hotham as paternal/filial/fraternal/family relationship of choice. He doesn't classify them at all, he just apologizes and explains the general Rokoko emo and waterworks. Otherwise, he even says in the summaries stuff like "and then he was delighted to see his beloved Prince Heinrich again". I have no idea what 1926!Editor would have made of Lehndorff. Or Heinrich. Also, I can't help but seeing a backwards development here. Theodor Fontane in the late 19th century, with the Oscar Wilde trial still to come, has no problem referring to Heinrich's last boyfriend as "a relationship of the heart" and not mentioning the word "fatherly" even once, despite an age gap which actually would have fit with that for his readers.
Stuarts: Lehndorff is reading the history in the early 1750s, so definitely after. And yes, finding the Stuarts weird when you're surrounded by Hohenzollerns whom you fanboy as royalty role models is so breathtakingly... something... that I just had to share. Incidentally, the current head of the Stuarts through the Jacobite line is... drumroll... none other than the current head of the House of Wittelsbach, Franz von Bayern. Wittelsbachs: smugly: Not only are we better at survival than the Hohenzollern, we also still own our castles. And those we don't any more, we got paid handsomely for. Also? We know which claims to pursue and which to leave for folk dancing opportunities.
(Seriously though, Franz spent some time in a concentration camp as a child because the Wittelsbachs, as opposed to Willy's kids, really were anti Nazi. A plus guy, Franz. Jacobites could do worse.)
As for me, the only of the classic Stuarts I really like is Charles II., but that generation and the one before and after certainly is screwed up enough that we could, post Yuletide, hold a very special Stuarts session. Given The Favourite has made Anne as the last Stuart Queen reappear on people's radar again, who knows who might join?
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Re: Barbarina
Date: 2019-12-09 12:05 pm (UTC)Lehndorff is nothing if not consistent! I admire your focus (Hotham notwithstanding).
Given that Heinrich keeps changing boyfriends, Lehndorff is allowed one alternate True Love. Incidentally, note that 1906!Editor does not try to sell us Lehndorff's feelings for his prince or for Dearest Hotham as paternal/filial/fraternal/family relationship of choice. He doesn't classify them at all, he just apologizes and explains the general Rokoko emo and waterworks. Otherwise, he even says in the summaries stuff like "and then he was delighted to see his beloved Prince Heinrich again". I have no idea what 1926!Editor would have made of Lehndorff. Or Heinrich. Also, I can't help but seeing a backwards development here. Theodor Fontane in the late 19th century, with the Oscar Wilde trial still to come, has no problem referring to Heinrich's last boyfriend as "a relationship of the heart" and not mentioning the word "fatherly" even once, despite an age gap which actually would have fit with that for his readers.
Stuarts: Lehndorff is reading the history in the early 1750s, so definitely after. And yes, finding the Stuarts weird when you're surrounded by Hohenzollerns whom you fanboy as royalty role models is so breathtakingly... something... that I just had to share. Incidentally, the current head of the Stuarts through the Jacobite line is... drumroll... none other than the current head of the House of Wittelsbach, Franz von Bayern. Wittelsbachs: smugly: Not only are we better at survival than the Hohenzollern, we also still own our castles. And those we don't any more, we got paid handsomely for. Also? We know which claims to pursue and which to leave for folk dancing opportunities.
(Seriously though, Franz spent some time in a concentration camp as a child because the Wittelsbachs, as opposed to Willy's kids, really were anti Nazi. A plus guy, Franz. Jacobites could do worse.)
As for me, the only of the classic Stuarts I really like is Charles II., but that generation and the one before and after certainly is screwed up enough that we could, post Yuletide, hold a very special Stuarts session. Given The Favourite has made Anne as the last Stuart Queen reappear on people's radar again, who knows who might join?