Yup, I've seen this repeatedly, and I'm pretty sure it's from one of FW's micromanaging Fritz's incarceration letters.
So do we believe the Münchows, and then Blockmann, subverted those orders by having Fritz supplied with food for their own kitchen?
(BTW: getting your food from a cookshop in town instead of employing your own cook is apparantly a social downmark or thriftiness and modesty at best. Am reminded of the following in Lehnsdorff, all quoted before: James Keith has his Finnish mistress Eva use his carriage and get all luxury while he gets his meals from a cookshop; Seckendorff while a pow in Magdeburg gets his meals from a cookshop - prisoners having to pay for their own food is so very 18th century -; Amalie after Mom has forbidden her to be supplied with food from the royal kitchen has to get food from the a cookshop until Lehndorff can hire her a cook of her own.)
Poison in the coffee: I figured it was Glasow's! It's good to finally confirm that.
Heinrich: At least none of my boytoys tried to kill me. [mildred's note: That I know of?]
I don't know of any attempt, either, but what he and Fritz have in common (well, yet another thing) is that one of his boytoys committed suicide post dumping, too, a French actor named Blainville. Fontane in his Rheinsberg chapters, apropos Heinrich having a portrait bust of Blainville's: The actor Blainville, a particular favourite of the Prince's, committed suicide after an intrigue of his colleagues had managed to temporarily remove his lord's favour from him. The Prince supposedly never got over this loss. (I don't recall Ziebura's Heinrich biography having much more on Blainville, presumably because Lehndorff doesn't even mention him. Maybe Blainville came to the scene after the printed diaries end, i.e. post Lehndorff's resignation as chamberlain, or maybe he simply didn't register much with Lehndorff.) Note that none of the other boyfriends get accused, even implicitly, of murdering Blainville! (I really can't wait to find out whether Hahn gave Blanning any reason for this.)
Burgdorfian conclusion: "The Prince's love could be deadly."
More seriously, if he had a bust of Blainville made - the other guy with a bust in Rheinsberg is the "last warming beam of the setting sun" emigré Count -, there probably was some serious affection involved. And it is worth reminding that committing suicide over losing favor is not quite as committing suicide over a break-up would be today, for both Grigorij the hussar and Blainville the actor. The closest modern thing would probably be to be be someone whose professional and emotional welfare depends on the favour of a superstar with ties to the mob (say, an unknown singer hired to open for Frank Sinatra and falling in love with him?) and then lose that.
Münchow, do you know where Fredersdorf's room was in all this? I would like to hear more about that part of the layout. :P
My thinking precisely. He does mention Fredersdorf, but in another context, when talking about the suicide box story (told you Catt must have been blabbing all over the place by 1790), on which Münchow's take was "could be, Fredersdorf himself told me the King once rode that far in advance that he found himself behind enemy lines once" and that this was a safety measure against being taken captive.
Alternative possibility, since 1739 is when Münchow starts his service as page and thus is able to listen to Fritz getting up in the middle of the night to go god knows where: Algarotti! Who showed up in that same year chez Fritz, am I right?
BTw, the story "of another nature" that shall die with Münchow to which there were two other witnesses sounds more like they actually accidentally spotted Fritz having sexual interactions of some type with someone, at least that's the vibe I am getting from that statement.
Münchow letters: come for the Katte execution, stay for the testimony to Fritz' post Katte sex life!
Gutenberg Nicolai: sadly this seems to be different edition with no Fritzian goodness to report. But don't add anything, I'm still working myself through the fascinating other stuff.
Re: Stop the Presses! Münchow vs Zimmermann: It's on!
So do we believe the Münchows, and then Blockmann, subverted those orders by having Fritz supplied with food for their own kitchen?
(BTW: getting your food from a cookshop in town instead of employing your own cook is apparantly a social downmark or thriftiness and modesty at best. Am reminded of the following in Lehnsdorff, all quoted before: James Keith has his Finnish mistress Eva use his carriage and get all luxury while he gets his meals from a cookshop; Seckendorff while a pow in Magdeburg gets his meals from a cookshop - prisoners having to pay for their own food is so very 18th century -; Amalie after Mom has forbidden her to be supplied with food from the royal kitchen has to get food from the a cookshop until Lehndorff can hire her a cook of her own.)
Poison in the coffee:
I figured it was Glasow's! It's good to finally confirm that.
Heinrich: At least none of my boytoys tried to kill me. [mildred's note: That I know of?]
I don't know of any attempt, either, but what he and Fritz have in common (well, yet another thing) is that one of his boytoys committed suicide post dumping, too, a French actor named Blainville. Fontane in his Rheinsberg chapters, apropos Heinrich having a portrait bust of Blainville's: The actor Blainville, a particular favourite of the Prince's, committed suicide after an intrigue of his colleagues had managed to temporarily remove his lord's favour from him. The Prince supposedly never got over this loss. (I don't recall Ziebura's Heinrich biography having much more on Blainville, presumably because Lehndorff doesn't even mention him. Maybe Blainville came to the scene after the printed diaries end, i.e. post Lehndorff's resignation as chamberlain, or maybe he simply didn't register much with Lehndorff.) Note that none of the other boyfriends get accused, even implicitly, of murdering Blainville! (I really can't wait to find out whether Hahn gave Blanning any reason for this.)
Burgdorfian conclusion: "The Prince's love could be deadly."
More seriously, if he had a bust of Blainville made - the other guy with a bust in Rheinsberg is the "last warming beam of the setting sun" emigré Count -, there probably was some serious affection involved. And it is worth reminding that committing suicide over losing favor is not quite as committing suicide over a break-up would be today, for both Grigorij the hussar and Blainville the actor. The closest modern thing would probably be to be be someone whose professional and emotional welfare depends on the favour of a superstar with ties to the mob (say, an unknown singer hired to open for Frank Sinatra and falling in love with him?) and then lose that.
Münchow, do you know where Fredersdorf's room was in all this? I would like to hear more about that part of the layout. :P
My thinking precisely. He does mention Fredersdorf, but in another context, when talking about the suicide box story (told you Catt must have been blabbing all over the place by 1790), on which Münchow's take was "could be, Fredersdorf himself told me the King once rode that far in advance that he found himself behind enemy lines once" and that this was a safety measure against being taken captive.
Alternative possibility, since 1739 is when Münchow starts his service as page and thus is able to listen to Fritz getting up in the middle of the night to go god knows where: Algarotti! Who showed up in that same year chez Fritz, am I right?
BTw, the story "of another nature" that shall die with Münchow to which there were two other witnesses sounds more like they actually accidentally spotted Fritz having sexual interactions of some type with someone, at least that's the vibe I am getting from that statement.
Münchow letters: come for the Katte execution, stay for the testimony to Fritz' post Katte sex life!
Gutenberg Nicolai: sadly this seems to be different edition with no Fritzian goodness to report. But don't add anything, I'm still working myself through the fascinating other stuff.