I kid you not, my first reaction was, "oh wow, this must be the AU where he hates her and this is the silent way he shows his utter disdain!" (okay, I realize that doesn't quite make sense either, but my poor brain tried) and only in your next line did I realize there was a far simpler explanation :P You and mildred have educated me too well :PP
<3 To further show the scriptwriters didn't do their work: When young Sophie manages to reply well when he adressed her with a complimentary sentence, he - in a positive fashion - asks her whether she's quoting Shakespeare. Again: DO YOUR RESEARCH, SCRITPWRITERS. This was before the internet, so they couldn't google "Friedrich II" and "Shakespeare" and get "great disdain" as a result, granted, but really, his literary preferences were not hard to find out even in the 80s.
(Oh, and young Sophie in the early 1740s probably had no idea who Shakespeare was, along with most of Germany. German Shakeaspeare mania was a thing of the 1770s onwards (though then it never really stopped).
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Re: Fritzian library
I kid you not, my first reaction was, "oh wow, this must be the AU where he hates her and this is the silent way he shows his utter disdain!" (okay, I realize that doesn't quite make sense either, but my poor brain tried) and only in your next line did I realize there was a far simpler explanation :P You and mildred have educated me too well :PP
Re: Fritzian library
(Oh, and young Sophie in the early 1740s probably had no idea who Shakespeare was, along with most of Germany. German Shakeaspeare mania was a thing of the 1770s onwards (though then it never really stopped).
Re: Fritzian library
Heee! Look at you learning things! I am gleeful over how far you've come in such a short time.