She was also the one who put us onto the track of Lehndorff, right?
Yes, she was. She kept quoting from him and mentioning him as Heinrich's friend with benefits. She also is the one who still gets the occasional indignant "no proof!!!!" review on Amazon by people who clearly haven't read her books.
I also can't help but compare her to Burgdorf, the "Gay, gay, and did I mention, gay!!!!" biographer who doesn't bother with citations and for whom bi people don't exist, nor does a youthful experimental stage in which a gay man can have sex with a woman before figuring out his preferences. Ziebura in her Prussian royals biographies, starting with the 1999 Heinrich one, is absolutely determined not to be coy and presents evidence for everyone's sexualities, but that's just it: she delivers quotes, citations, and rarely makes claims beyond what she can prove. (One of the few exceptions I can think of is when she thinks Marwitz was Heinrich's first love but does not say what her canon proof for this is. Maybe it's just that it's the earliest romantic/sexual relationship of his we do have proof on, but while that can be the same, it doesn't have to be.) And she's able to write about her subjects sympathetically without losing sight of their flaws and other people's pov, hence her biography of the three unwanted wives, which shows none of the royal brothers, including AW, in a good light.
This is just too sad. Yes, and it makes reading Henri de Catt's memoirs where Fritz is all - "would totally have reconciled with my brother if evil advisors (tm) hadn't riled him up against me" such an exercise in eye rolling. Because reading those letters, the brother who keeps being riled up and lashing out is clearly not AW.
Diary entry from Lehndorff about a conversation with AW in February 1758:
I was worried because the Russians had taken possession of (Eastern) Prussia - where Steinort, aka the Lehndorff family seat and the Lehndorff-owned agrarian estates are, which means he's currently without an income beyond what EC pays him - and because I thought about my impending marriage with Fräulein von Häseler. When I talked with him about this, he said: "You are right, my dear Lehndorff, to consider founding a household which will protect you from many ills. I'm thinking about your happiness now, and once I get a hold of a Taler, I'll share it with you. But I don't promise anything if I ever get to be King, because then the Devil takes hold of one. (This last sentence is written by Lehndorff in German, not French, as 1907! editor notes and as one can tell by the sudden Rokoko spelling, which means AW said it in German.)
Re: Brotherly Conduct II: The Main Act
Yes, she was. She kept quoting from him and mentioning him as Heinrich's friend with benefits. She also is the one who still gets the occasional indignant "no proof!!!!" review on Amazon by people who clearly haven't read her books.
I also can't help but compare her to Burgdorf, the "Gay, gay, and did I mention, gay!!!!" biographer who doesn't bother with citations and for whom bi people don't exist, nor does a youthful experimental stage in which a gay man can have sex with a woman before figuring out his preferences. Ziebura in her Prussian royals biographies, starting with the 1999 Heinrich one, is absolutely determined not to be coy and presents evidence for everyone's sexualities, but that's just it: she delivers quotes, citations, and rarely makes claims beyond what she can prove. (One of the few exceptions I can think of is when she thinks Marwitz was Heinrich's first love but does not say what her canon proof for this is. Maybe it's just that it's the earliest romantic/sexual relationship of his we do have proof on, but while that can be the same, it doesn't have to be.) And she's able to write about her subjects sympathetically without losing sight of their flaws and other people's pov, hence her biography of the three unwanted wives, which shows none of the royal brothers, including AW, in a good light.
This is just too sad.
Yes, and it makes reading Henri de Catt's memoirs where Fritz is all - "would totally have reconciled with my brother if evil advisors (tm) hadn't riled him up against me" such an exercise in eye rolling. Because reading those letters, the brother who keeps being riled up and lashing out is clearly not AW.
Diary entry from Lehndorff about a conversation with AW in February 1758:
I was worried because the Russians had taken possession of (Eastern) Prussia - where Steinort, aka the Lehndorff family seat and the Lehndorff-owned agrarian estates are, which means he's currently without an income beyond what EC pays him - and because I thought about my impending marriage with Fräulein von Häseler. When I talked with him about this, he said: "You are right, my dear Lehndorff, to consider founding a household which will protect you from many ills. I'm thinking about your happiness now, and once I get a hold of a Taler, I'll share it with you. But I don't promise anything if I ever get to be King, because then the Devil takes hold of one. (This last sentence is written by Lehndorff in German, not French, as 1907! editor notes and as one can tell by the sudden Rokoko spelling, which means AW said it in German.)