The Geschwisterporträt is interesting. Says the original was destroyed in 1945 (along with all the Katte family papers, I assume), but that a privately owned copy was still around. Now, I absolutely buy someone made a copy of a Katte Family painting at some point pre 1945, because of the Fritz Connection and Hans Hermann having become a tragic legend, and the 1945 date for the original being destroyed actually makes me cautiously trustful, since that fits with what Klosterhuis says happened to the papers.
Grandpa, Mum and Dad Portraits: no problem there.
Alternate Hans Herrmann: could be. My Statement wasn't based on something said in a biography, just that all the German biographies I'd read kept using the same portrait, plus the black and white one, and I figured there was a reason for that.
Oh, and I see one of the tumblrs you linked - for which much thanks! - quotes your bete noire's Nancy Mitford's biography which describes Fritz & his brother's thusly: “The Kings’ brothers were more like sons to him – Augustus William, the Prince of Prussia, was born ten, Henry fourteen and Ferdinand eighteen years after him; he was strict with them and of course, they chafed under his rule… The Prince of Prussia ( 3rd from left ), a good-natured, not very interesting fellow…Ferdinand ( 2nd from left ) was never of much account… Prince Henry ( 4th from left ), now seventeen, was a great character, to be a pleasure and a pest to Frederick all his life,”
You know, I could Fritz see agreeing on the last part. With differing emphasis on "pleasure" and "pest" depending whether there's a war going on.
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Re: Tumblr fandom
Date: 2020-01-19 05:28 pm (UTC)Grandpa, Mum and Dad Portraits: no problem there.
Alternate Hans Herrmann: could be. My Statement wasn't based on something said in a biography, just that all the German biographies I'd read kept using the same portrait, plus the black and white one, and I figured there was a reason for that.
Oh, and I see one of the tumblrs you linked - for which much thanks! - quotes your bete noire's Nancy Mitford's biography which describes Fritz & his brother's thusly: “The Kings’ brothers were more like sons to him – Augustus William, the Prince of Prussia, was born ten, Henry fourteen and Ferdinand eighteen years after him; he was strict with them and of course, they chafed under his rule… The Prince of Prussia ( 3rd from left ), a good-natured, not very interesting fellow…Ferdinand ( 2nd from left ) was never of much account… Prince Henry ( 4th from left ), now seventeen, was a great character, to be a pleasure and a pest to Frederick all his life,”
You know, I could Fritz see agreeing on the last part. With differing emphasis on "pleasure" and "pest" depending whether there's a war going on.