This is the first time where SD's obsession with the British marriage project actually comes across as not the sole motivation. Bearing in mind that her own mother (and George's) mother was locked away for life, such a threat would not have sounded like mere rethoric to her. Wilhelmine hadn't yet agreed to the Bayreuth marriage, so I do buy that love and concern for her daughter was as big a factor here at least as the usual "I must get a daughter of mine to live the life I'd have wanted".
Oh wow, that's a good point. Yeah, it makes sense to me that this would be part of it. I mean, not that it really excuses her treatment of Wilhelmine, but I can see her thinking being at least partially along the lines of "look, you think I'm being mean to you about this, but you just don't know how bad it can actually get."
These conversations, he ends every time by asking everyone present whether not the Prince, as the cause of Katte's death, has very much to answer for.
Arrrrrrgh FW! It just makes me crazy that he obviously, somewhere inside of himself, realizes that it was wrong that Katte died, that there was a serious miscarriage of justice there... and then manages to turn it all around to where it was Fritz's fault, as it couldn't possibly be his. Arrrrrgh!
Re pronouns: Probably you have said this already when you read the letters, but I am finally getting a good start on Blanning and he says that Fritz used Du with Fredersdorf :D
Re pronouns: Probably you have said this already when you read the letters, but I am finally getting a good start on Blanning and he says that Fritz used Du with Fredersdorf :D
Indeed, I had mentioned this even before we'd read the not-on-Trier letters! That plus the use of German at all is very touching. <3
Commoner Fredersdorf, I might add, and as we've discussed previously, was carefully always very formal when replying to His Majesty. But he probably did swap out coffee orders for hot chocolate--I always figured Fredersdorf showed his love and familiarity with actions more than words. ;)
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Re: Katte - Species Facti 2
Oh wow, that's a good point. Yeah, it makes sense to me that this would be part of it. I mean, not that it really excuses her treatment of Wilhelmine, but I can see her thinking being at least partially along the lines of "look, you think I'm being mean to you about this, but you just don't know how bad it can actually get."
These conversations, he ends every time by asking everyone present whether not the Prince, as the cause of Katte's death, has very much to answer for.
Arrrrrrgh FW! It just makes me crazy that he obviously, somewhere inside of himself, realizes that it was wrong that Katte died, that there was a serious miscarriage of justice there... and then manages to turn it all around to where it was Fritz's fault, as it couldn't possibly be his. Arrrrrgh!
Re pronouns: Probably you have said this already when you read the letters, but I am finally getting a good start on Blanning and he says that Fritz used Du with Fredersdorf :D
Re: Katte - Species Facti 2
Indeed, I had mentioned this even before we'd read the not-on-Trier letters! That plus the use of German at all is very touching. <3
Commoner Fredersdorf, I might add, and as we've discussed previously, was carefully always very formal when replying to His Majesty. But he probably did swap out coffee orders for hot chocolate--I always figured Fredersdorf showed his love and familiarity with actions more than words. ;)