Thank you for the excellent rundown on hunting practices! That's all very useful information.
(The difference in dating is also something the memoirs editor mentions as giving him a headache.)
*nod* It gave me a headache back in my Jacobite-studying days.
remaining the most important advisor/power behind the throne once FW2 reaches his majority would have been a far more sensible policy.
She's enough of a pragmatist and survivor that I agree. I think in this AU, Fritz is the only plotted death, and everything else is maneuvering.
due to both brothers suspecting (correctly, as it turned out) that the Prussian envoy at St. Petersburg, Solms, in whose hands the courier service was, was either not enough concerned with safety or in the pockets of the Russians
Do we know which it was?
which together with the sheer geographical distance meant Fritz couldn't change his mind and try to micromanage Heinrich from afair after all.
Heinrich definitely caught a lucky break there!
not a single movie or tv series I can think of has Frederick the Great, at whichever age, dancing
Old Fritz did a good job of projecting the public image he intended to project.
Poniatowski: What is this suspiciously decadent-looking waistcoat here? Staff: Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain waistcoat on the chair!
Oh, speaking of public images. Blanning, who is the one who led us to Hahn (via Fredersdorf accusations), and who therefore should know about the nearsightedness, has Fritz showing off his fabled memory for names and faces in the 1760s!
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Re: Anhalt Sophie: Portrait of the Czarina as a young girl
Date: 2020-03-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(The difference in dating is also something the memoirs editor mentions as giving him a headache.)
*nod* It gave me a headache back in my Jacobite-studying days.
remaining the most important advisor/power behind the throne once FW2 reaches his majority would have been a far more sensible policy.
She's enough of a pragmatist and survivor that I agree. I think in this AU, Fritz is the only plotted death, and everything else is maneuvering.
due to both brothers suspecting (correctly, as it turned out) that the Prussian envoy at St. Petersburg, Solms, in whose hands the courier service was, was either not enough concerned with safety or in the pockets of the Russians
Do we know which it was?
which together with the sheer geographical distance meant Fritz couldn't change his mind and try to micromanage Heinrich from afair after all.
Heinrich definitely caught a lucky break there!
not a single movie or tv series I can think of has Frederick the Great, at whichever age, dancing
Old Fritz did a good job of projecting the public image he intended to project.
Poniatowski: What is this suspiciously decadent-looking waistcoat here?
Staff: Pay no attention to that
man behind the curtainwaistcoat on the chair!Oh, speaking of public images. Blanning, who is the one who led us to Hahn (via Fredersdorf accusations), and who therefore should know about the nearsightedness, has Fritz showing off his fabled memory for names and faces in the 1760s!