Frederick the Great, discussion post 6

[cahn]

...I think we need another one (seriously, you guys, this is THE BEST) and I'd better make it now before I disappear into the wilds of music performance.

(also, as of this week there are two Frederician fics in the yuletide archive and eeeeeeeeeee)
(huh, only one of them is actually tagged with Frederick the Great even though two with Maria Theresia and Wilhelmine, eeeeeee this is awesome I CAN'T WAIT)

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Re: Wilhelmine's in-laws

[selenak]

That, and this is the early stage where Lehndorff is prone to find just about everything Heinrich does either sexy or cute or glorious, depending what it is. Have now had the bright idea of looking up the footnotes, and at one typcial Lehndorff entry which goes "woe is me, it's all over between Heinrich and me, he doesn't love me one bit!", the footnote says that older Lehndorff, who apparantly checked out his old diaries now and then, added to this: "I was wrong. We're still firm friends now that we're both in our 60s. But back then, I was ragingly jealous of everyone he favored. In other words, I was a child."

It's a good reminder that both Heinrich and Lehndorff were in their 20s back then, with raging hormones.