Thank you SO much, again and again, for your lovely, informative, and entertaining write-ups!
"When the Queen embraced her fiercely, she told her: "My dear sister, who fortunate you are to live with our family always!" Whereupon the Princess Amalie did not reply. Thus one can see that what is regarded by one as happiness is of no worth to the other."
Hahahahaaa. Family therapy for everyone, seriously.
In religious matters, she's a free thinker
Are *any* of FW's kids not? He really seems to have failed signally in Operation Piety, even worse than he failed in Operation Compulsory Heterosexuality.
they also wear mourning when Isabella (of Parma, Joseph's first wife) dies, which did surprise me. (Ditto when FS dies, of course.) But she's the wife if the future Emperor, and it seems even after having just fought the Seven Years War, at least technically Prussia still considers itself part of the Holy Roman Empire?
That's super interesting!
(When you read the entry where Fritz "absolutely wants to make a soldier out of the Crown Prince" and is "incensed at all the French fashion he wears" , you do have an odd sense of deja vu...)
You do. Yet another passage I've seen that turns out to be from Lehndorff...
I guess you're only supposed to wear French fashion in the late afternoons and evenings, after you get back from reviewing the troops in uniform. What was it Voltaire said, Fritz's court was "Sparta in the morning, Athens in the afternoon"? Fritz, you're being very specific about your requirements here. :P Stop traumatizing the next generation.
Re: Lehndorff: This is the end, my friend - II
Thank you SO much, again and again, for your lovely, informative, and entertaining write-ups!
"When the Queen embraced her fiercely, she told her: "My dear sister, who fortunate you are to live with our family always!" Whereupon the Princess Amalie did not reply. Thus one can see that what is regarded by one as happiness is of no worth to the other."
Hahahahaaa. Family therapy for everyone, seriously.
In religious matters, she's a free thinker
Are *any* of FW's kids not? He really seems to have failed signally in Operation Piety, even worse than he failed in Operation Compulsory Heterosexuality.
they also wear mourning when Isabella (of Parma, Joseph's first wife) dies, which did surprise me. (Ditto when FS dies, of course.) But she's the wife if the future Emperor, and it seems even after having just fought the Seven Years War, at least technically Prussia still considers itself part of the Holy Roman Empire?
That's super interesting!
(When you read the entry where Fritz "absolutely wants to make a soldier out of the Crown Prince" and is "incensed at all the French fashion he wears" , you do have an odd sense of deja vu...)
You do. Yet another passage I've seen that turns out to be from Lehndorff...
I guess you're only supposed to wear French fashion in the late afternoons and evenings, after you get back from reviewing the troops in uniform. What was it Voltaire said, Fritz's court was "Sparta in the morning, Athens in the afternoon"? Fritz, you're being very specific about your requirements here. :P Stop traumatizing the next generation.