From salmon to eternal friendship, Franzl, that was fast!
Well, firstly, he had already warmed up to Fritz after their engagement party meeting, secondly, Habsburgs and Lorraines can effuse and go into verbal hyperbole with the best of the Hohenzollern. :) Fritz in his first letter to Franzl after MT's dad is dead is so full of tender concern for a prince whose bff he swears himself forever and all the burdens that prince will carry (since it's clearly not the prince's wife who will do the governing), it brings out tears in one's eyes. (He's totally willing to lift some of those burdens, of course, as well we know.)
Re: The Suhm Letters: Franz Stephan
From salmon to eternal friendship, Franzl, that was fast!
Well, firstly, he had already warmed up to Fritz after their engagement party meeting, secondly, Habsburgs and Lorraines can effuse and go into verbal hyperbole with the best of the Hohenzollern. :) Fritz in his first letter to Franzl after MT's dad is dead is so full of tender concern for a prince whose bff he swears himself forever and all the burdens that prince will carry (since it's clearly not the prince's wife who will do the governing), it brings out tears in one's eyes. (He's totally willing to lift some of those burdens, of course, as well we know.)