Fritz 'n Heinrich, simultanously: Why are you like this?
*spits out drink*
Break the cycle of abuse, Hohenzollerns! Anna Amalia managed it.
That must be it. After all, Marwitz happened in 1746, which meant both Voltaire/Ulrike (1743) and Trenck/Amalie had already happened, so the manuscript clearly was making the rounds.)
Exactly what I was thinking! Voltaire wouldn't waste any time on a thing like that.
SD: Post Fritz in Küstrin, no longer sleeping with FW.
Oh, man, I had missed the fact that the last kid was born a couple months before the escape attempt! I think I just went with "Wife is now 43, probably not especially fertile any more" and didn't think about how SD's all-time favorite kid has just been put through the worst abuse of his life. Wow.
FW: *hits on SD's Lady in waiting Johanna von Pannwitz via clumsy attempt
If this was after the escape attempt, I also completely missed the timing of "SD pissed off at FW; FW hits on lady-in-waiting."
I am a bad gossipy sensationalist. I can keep the Keiths and Rottembourgs straight, and that's about it. ;)
Fritz: In MY day, we only fainted when our beloved was killed in front of us, not married.
Oh, Fritz.
morganatic marriage is a legal finesse originally invented for royals who want to legitimize their Mistresses and kids from same without going through it officially. It means that once you die, your dead Body is a legitimate wife's Body, and your kids are all legitimate, not bastards. Otoh, while you live, you are not officially married to him and keep your old Name. The most prominent example of this was the Marquise de Maintenon, whom Louis XIV married morganatically.
My understanding is that one of the key points of a morganatic marriage is that the kids, while legitimate, are excluded from the succession.
Other possible example of a morganatic marriage: Elizaveta of Russia and Count Razumovsky, but I'm not sure where the most recent scholarship stands on the question of them being married. Back in my Russian history-studying days 20 years ago, my faint memories are that it was still an open question.
Re: Toppings of all types, continued - the Curious Case of the Recurring Favourite
Fritz 'n Heinrich, simultanously: Why are you like this?
*spits out drink*
Break the cycle of abuse, Hohenzollerns! Anna Amalia managed it.
That must be it. After all, Marwitz happened in 1746, which meant both Voltaire/Ulrike (1743) and Trenck/Amalie had already happened, so the manuscript clearly was making the rounds.)
Exactly what I was thinking! Voltaire wouldn't waste any time on a thing like that.
SD: Post Fritz in Küstrin, no longer sleeping with FW.
Oh, man, I had missed the fact that the last kid was born a couple months before the escape attempt! I think I just went with "Wife is now 43, probably not especially fertile any more" and didn't think about how SD's all-time favorite kid has just been put through the worst abuse of his life. Wow.
FW: *hits on SD's Lady in waiting Johanna von Pannwitz via clumsy attempt
If this was after the escape attempt, I also completely missed the timing of "SD pissed off at FW; FW hits on lady-in-waiting."
I am a bad gossipy sensationalist. I can keep the Keiths and Rottembourgs straight, and that's about it. ;)
Fritz: In MY day, we only fainted when our beloved was killed in front of us, not married.
Oh, Fritz.
morganatic marriage is a legal finesse originally invented for royals who want to legitimize their Mistresses and kids from same without going through it officially. It means that once you die, your dead Body is a legitimate wife's Body, and your kids are all legitimate, not bastards. Otoh, while you live, you are not officially married to him and keep your old Name. The most prominent example of this was the Marquise de Maintenon, whom Louis XIV married morganatically.
My understanding is that one of the key points of a morganatic marriage is that the kids, while legitimate, are excluded from the succession.
Other possible example of a morganatic marriage: Elizaveta of Russia and Count Razumovsky, but I'm not sure where the most recent scholarship stands on the question of them being married. Back in my Russian history-studying days 20 years ago, my faint memories are that it was still an open question.