Charles-Émile/Karl-Emil: okay, if you don't have a crossreference, I'm with cahn - Fritz probably got inspired by two random soldiers.
Makes sense to me! It reminds me of this passage from a Neal Stephenson novel: "When their discussion of the company’s name consumed more than the fifteen minutes Richard felt it deserved, he pulled some Dungeons & Dragons dice out of his pocket and rolled them to generate the random number 9592." And thus Richard's startup Corporation 9592 is founded.
Excuses for not writing: ha. (Especially, as Cahn says, given how much he's simultanously writing to everyone else. Including Amalie who is, due to war time, living in close proximity to EC.)
Right? I actually went and checked the dates on some of these, and yeah, Suhm and Voltaire and other people are getting nice beefy letters. "I don't have time to write to you because I'm busy writing to more interesting people!" Though it was interesting that sometimes you can tell he really was busy on a given day, but then a few days later you'd see much longer letters to other people and not so much to her.
But there's no way she'd have put up with playing second fiddle to his mother and sisters.
But what I was thinking was that she wouldn't have to. I was thinking he actually would have let her be more of a proper queen, as long as she stayed away from politics. I don't think it's anything like an ideal marriage, no--ideally Fritz doesn't get married, at least in the pre-same-sex marriage era--but he might have liked her as a person (not just a mother) better than EC.
She'd have had very definite ideas about how their heir (whether that potential heir would have been the son of their siblings or maybe the result of a half hearted try at marital life in the early days) should be raised
How different would those ideas have been from his, though? If he wanted his heir educated and cultured and also in the military, how much would she have objected? I'm sure she would have wanted a more extravagant court than he did, but the budget and treatment he did give her as Dowager Queen was evidently to her satisfaction, and I think they could have arrived at an agreement (again, since they did irl). Unless you think that was 100% her being his mother and not any kind of shared values, like the arts.
And the first time she'd gotten a condolence letter like the one about brother Albrecht from him, marital warfare would have ensued.
Haha, well, that would have been interesting. :P
Anyway, no, not an ideal marriage, but maybe better than the first impression EC made. (Of course, a lot has to do with how much Fritz has the marriage forced down his throat in this AU. EC had the deck stacked against her from the beginning, and then it didn't matter how hard she tried.)
Re: Mr. and Mrs. King: Fritz - Elisabeth Christine: The Correspondance
Makes sense to me! It reminds me of this passage from a Neal Stephenson novel: "When their discussion of the company’s name consumed more than the fifteen minutes Richard felt it deserved, he pulled some Dungeons & Dragons dice out of his pocket and rolled them to generate the random number 9592." And thus Richard's startup Corporation 9592 is founded.
Excuses for not writing: ha. (Especially, as Cahn says, given how much he's simultanously writing to everyone else. Including Amalie who is, due to war time, living in close proximity to EC.)
Right? I actually went and checked the dates on some of these, and yeah, Suhm and Voltaire and other people are getting nice beefy letters. "I don't have time to write to you because I'm busy writing to more interesting people!" Though it was interesting that sometimes you can tell he really was busy on a given day, but then a few days later you'd see much longer letters to other people and not so much to her.
But there's no way she'd have put up with playing second fiddle to his mother and sisters.
But what I was thinking was that she wouldn't have to. I was thinking he actually would have let her be more of a proper queen, as long as she stayed away from politics. I don't think it's anything like an ideal marriage, no--ideally Fritz doesn't get married, at least in the pre-same-sex marriage era--but he might have liked her as a person (not just a mother) better than EC.
She'd have had very definite ideas about how their heir (whether that potential heir would have been the son of their siblings or maybe the result of a half hearted try at marital life in the early days) should be raised
How different would those ideas have been from his, though? If he wanted his heir educated and cultured and also in the military, how much would she have objected? I'm sure she would have wanted a more extravagant court than he did, but the budget and treatment he did give her as Dowager Queen was evidently to her satisfaction, and I think they could have arrived at an agreement (again, since they did irl). Unless you think that was 100% her being his mother and not any kind of shared values, like the arts.
And the first time she'd gotten a condolence letter like the one about brother Albrecht from him, marital warfare would have ensued.
Haha, well, that would have been interesting. :P
Anyway, no, not an ideal marriage, but maybe better than the first impression EC made. (Of course, a lot has to do with how much Fritz has the marriage forced down his throat in this AU. EC had the deck stacked against her from the beginning, and then it didn't matter how hard she tried.)