The hitting on the Lady in Waiting wasn't in the same year
Oh, yes, I didn't mean that it was an immediate reaction; just that SD was going to be probably permanently 100% Done with FW after 1730. It would not surprise me if it was 3 years later that FW cracked under the pressure of sexual frustration.
Now, it could of course simply be that Ferdinand was the last child because SD got menopausal or just not that fertile anymore, but I think the timing for this unprecedented attempt by Mr. "No Mistresses! No Whores!" (as an opening paragraph in his political testament, no less) to break his record of marital fidelity after all would indicate a good chance that SD had ended sexuals relations for good by then, and there is an obvious reason.
Yes, this does make a surprising amount of sense.
(Also a later less obvious one, except if you're SD. She was thrilled Fritz was out of custody and reinstated, of course, but she still hated the Braunschweig marriage for her son.)
And the Bayreuth marriage for her daughter! The fact that she blamed Wilhelmine for giving in wouldn't prevent her from also blaming her hated husband.
Do we know if SD ever gave Fritz a hard time about his marriage, or did the fact that he was the favorite plus in prison/house arrest at the time get him off the hook? Favorite son can do no wrong?
This, btw, doesn't mean some of them didn't make a play for the throne afterwards anyway.
If being illegitimate or even total impostors didn't stop people from making a play for the throne, being the product of a morganatic marriage sure as hell wouldn't.
But the legitimacy itself meant a lot, given the legal stain on bastards in most countries.
Re: Tangentially...
Oh, yes, I didn't mean that it was an immediate reaction; just that SD was going to be probably permanently 100% Done with FW after 1730. It would not surprise me if it was 3 years later that FW cracked under the pressure of sexual frustration.
Now, it could of course simply be that Ferdinand was the last child because SD got menopausal or just not that fertile anymore, but I think the timing for this unprecedented attempt by Mr. "No Mistresses! No Whores!" (as an opening paragraph in his political testament, no less) to break his record of marital fidelity after all would indicate a good chance that SD had ended sexuals relations for good by then, and there is an obvious reason.
Yes, this does make a surprising amount of sense.
(Also a later less obvious one, except if you're SD. She was thrilled Fritz was out of custody and reinstated, of course, but she still hated the Braunschweig marriage for her son.)
And the Bayreuth marriage for her daughter! The fact that she blamed Wilhelmine for giving in wouldn't prevent her from also blaming her hated husband.
Do we know if SD ever gave Fritz a hard time about his marriage, or did the fact that he was the favorite plus in prison/house arrest at the time get him off the hook? Favorite son can do no wrong?
This, btw, doesn't mean some of them didn't make a play for the throne afterwards anyway.
If being illegitimate or even total impostors didn't stop people from making a play for the throne, being the product of a morganatic marriage sure as hell wouldn't.
But the legitimacy itself meant a lot, given the legal stain on bastards in most countries.
Definitely. Huge plus.