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Every time I am amazed and enchanted that this is still going on! Truly DW is the Earthly Paradise!

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From:

mildred_of_midgard

See, Lehndorff is deeply appreciative of your legs and hips just as they are, P!

ROFL!

Like I said: one of Lehndorff's best. (Wartensleben stealing everyone's sugar cubes is my favourite detail.)

This was amazing beginning to end. The sugar cubes were my favorite too!

After all, their King has identified ViennaJoe as the coming menace of Europe!

I wonder if he still thinks Ferdinand is biding his time. :P (

cahn, as the youngest, and the longest-lived, of the siblings, Ferdinand will last until 1813.)

Or, as Lehndorff puts it about Heinrich "He has been sulking with the Firstborn".

From "Junior" to "the Firstborn," LOL.

Lehndorff, you should really find another designation for sexually active royal ladies than "Messalina". I'm just saying. Maria Antonia, btw, was MT's and Fritz' pen pal.

Maria Antonia was exactly who I was thinking of when Fritz said that an intelligent and musically talented must be ugly! Good to know you're still alive and going strong, Fritz?

Love you noticing Kaphengst's double chin, Lehndorff. One appreciates the little things, eh?

LOLOL, this has been one of the best Lehndorff write-ups yet!

And this is the quote which drew our attention to the fact there was a fourth Lehndorff diary volume published, mes amies.

And glad we are! Sparkly hearts, like diamonds, are forever.

From:

selenak

Re: Wartensleben - since you are the Mistress of genealogy, can you tell us how EC's Count Wartensleben, not to be confused with Heinrich's Count Wartensleben, was related to Katte's Grandpa Wartensleben? Because I do wonder whether Hans Herrmann would have known the sugar horder in the later's youth…

Also intelligent and musically gifted, in addition to Antonia: Wilhelmine and Amalie. But never let fraternal gallantry stand in the way of a quip!

Kaphengst's double chin is when Lehndorff channels his inner Jane Austen. In another life, he might have had a career as a Society novelist, which is why the body swap with Fontane is so seductive a crack idea. Mind you, given his hard-partying life style, I'm not surprised Kaphengst is gaining weight at this point. Btw, did you notice in the earlier write up that Lehndorff mentions Kaphengst having "the French sickness" courtesy of several theatre people?

Fritz: No surprise there. Clearly, that's yet another reason why I told Heinrich to dump him. Heinrich would be dead already if I didn't try to look out for his health out of the goodness of my fraternal heart.

Heinrich: There are ways of having sex with someone who has STD which allow you to remain safe. As someone who actually does get laid on a regular basis would know. I would like to point out here that even the most unflattering accounts of me never accuse me of a) having STD myself, or b) impotence.

From:

mildred_of_midgard

Heinrich: I would like to point out here that even the most unflattering accounts of me never accuse me of a) having STD myself, or b) impotence.

There is no ointment for the burn.