Yes, he gets Rheinsberg back. (Though Heinrich is going to miss it, he loved that place as much as Fritz did.)
True. He renovated it heavily, and it's not going to look the same as when Fritz lived there. Now I'm imagining Fritz demanding funds to re-renovate, lol. But Heinrich can build his own palace! There's all these funds for the Neues Palais that won't be needed any more. (cahn, construction was begun as soon as the Seven Years' War ended.)
retirement could turn out to be the best thing ever to hoppen to Fritz at this point, finally freeing him from his self chosen galley
But first he has to have the initial angry-letter-writing campaign about how everything that happened was extremely everyone else's fault. :P But when he's not writing letters and going crazy over not being in control, he's spending his time doing the things he actually wants to do in life, and eventually the momentum builds up to where it's the best thing for him.
If we don't want to make Fritz too stubborn, he can even agree to the prisoner's exchange, but then before it can happen, in the eleventh hour the Chevalier rescues Joseph and Fritz is back in Austrian captivity.
I like this, and I like it even more if we can work in some resistance from Fritz along the lines of "You're not giving away anything important, right? We're still fighting this war? Oh, it's a prisoner exchange. Okay. Cool. And the prisoner is of sufficiently high rank that I'm not being insulted? Just making sure."
did that scoundrel Voltaire really just threaten to publish a trashy tell all about her court, co-starring beloved husband's mistresses (painful, but has happened once or twice before) and beloved daughter-in-law carrying on with beloved daughter (no way!)? (Seydlitz picked something up from Isabella's reaction and told Voltaire.)
Justice through trashy tell-alls! White Knight to the rescue, Voltaire-style. OMG, this is great. Do it!
I like it, I like all of it. Fritz puts up some resistance and only agrees to the exchange once he's assured it meets all of his criteria, the Chevalier gets to shine--oh, man, Heinrich is going to *hear* about that, Retired For Good to Rheinsberg (TM) or not--Voltaire writes trashy tell-alls, Europe gets peace, Fritz gets his moderately happy ending, perfect!
Re: Wanted: Alive or dead
True. He renovated it heavily, and it's not going to look the same as when Fritz lived there. Now I'm imagining Fritz demanding funds to re-renovate, lol. But Heinrich can build his own palace! There's all these funds for the Neues Palais that won't be needed any more. (
retirement could turn out to be the best thing ever to hoppen to Fritz at this point, finally freeing him from his self chosen galley
But first he has to have the initial angry-letter-writing campaign about how everything that happened was extremely everyone else's fault. :P But when he's not writing letters and going crazy over not being in control, he's spending his time doing the things he actually wants to do in life, and eventually the momentum builds up to where it's the best thing for him.
If we don't want to make Fritz too stubborn, he can even agree to the prisoner's exchange, but then before it can happen, in the eleventh hour the Chevalier rescues Joseph and Fritz is back in Austrian captivity.
I like this, and I like it even more if we can work in some resistance from Fritz along the lines of "You're not giving away anything important, right? We're still fighting this war? Oh, it's a prisoner exchange. Okay. Cool. And the prisoner is of sufficiently high rank that I'm not being insulted? Just making sure."
did that scoundrel Voltaire really just threaten to publish a trashy tell all about her court, co-starring beloved husband's mistresses (painful, but has happened once or twice before) and beloved daughter-in-law carrying on with beloved daughter (no way!)? (Seydlitz picked something up from Isabella's reaction and told Voltaire.)
Justice through trashy tell-alls! White Knight to the rescue, Voltaire-style. OMG, this is great. Do it!
I like it, I like all of it. Fritz puts up some resistance and only agrees to the exchange once he's assured it meets all of his criteria, the Chevalier gets to shine--oh, man, Heinrich is going to *hear* about that, Retired For Good to Rheinsberg (TM) or not--Voltaire writes trashy tell-alls, Europe gets peace, Fritz gets his moderately happy ending, perfect!