Re: Kalckreuth, actually Lehndorff originally confused me by first calling him Kalkreuther and then Kalckreuth in his diaries, but wiki says Kalckreuth.
Re: the translation of that sentence - "allerliebst" is a slightly old fashioned term meaning lovely, cute, which neither then nor now is commonly used to describe tall men. :) Whereas "tall guy" or "tall fellow" is actually a correct translation.
The Ferdinand and Heinrich exchange: yes, you've read that right. And yes, in a kinder AU Mina, if she must marry a Hohenzollern, marries either AW or Ferdinand, either of whom would have worked as a husband (AW because he actually did fall in love with her, and Ferdinand because he was attracted and liked her, and while he eventually completely ended that friendship did so under the specific circumstances of a) having married someone else, b) AW dying and leaving the last will he did, and c) Heinrich taking his post 7 Years War PtSD and depression out on her. I think as a sister-in-law, Heinrich would have gotten along well with her. Or as a lady-in-waiting. In any role but that of his wife.
Okay, in all of these fix-it AUs Mina has got to marry someone else :P Maybe in the AU where Voltaire saves Fritz and Heinrich is Regent Extraordinaire, he manages not to get married at all and Mina marries AW (...is it set early enough? I forget) and they become the One True Hohenzollern Love Story. (...okay, I couldn't even type that without looking at it veeeeery skeptically. But maybe it's possible?)
Heinrich's marriage to Mina: 1752 AW's cashiering: 1757 AW's death: 1758 Fritz's capture: We had tossed around a bunch of ideas and I forget if we settled on one, but the Seven Years' War is 1756-1763, and I *think* we were going for after Kunersdorf? So that would be late 1759.
Also, younger brother Heinrich as Regent presupposes AW's death and nephew FW2 as heir, so...it's hard to see what we'd do there.
Anyway, you know that in *my* fix-it AU, the story stops in the 1730s, *but*, Fritz has already given up his place in the succession, and AW will become king, so 1) AW's hardly going to force favorite brother Heinrich to get married, 2) he himself is king, so he can marry who he wants. Also, he's just about to turn 18 when FW kicks the bucket in 1740, so FW hasn't had the chance to arrange or force any marriages yet. So you know that in this universe, there's no Heinrich/Mina, and there's the possibility for AW/Mina. Or AW/Sophie von Pannewitz, or whoever AW wants.
Best of all possible worlds!
Really, Fritz not becoming king fixes SO MANY THINGS. The only thing it really breaks is us not learning about these people and getting our gossipy sensationalist fixes. :P Because as selenak pointed out, therapy for everyone means we never become fascinated.
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Re: Heinrich readthrough!
Date: 2020-05-03 07:21 pm (UTC)Re: the translation of that sentence - "allerliebst" is a slightly old fashioned term meaning lovely, cute, which neither then nor now is commonly used to describe tall men. :) Whereas "tall guy" or "tall fellow" is actually a correct translation.
The Ferdinand and Heinrich exchange: yes, you've read that right. And yes, in a kinder AU Mina, if she must marry a Hohenzollern, marries either AW or Ferdinand, either of whom would have worked as a husband (AW because he actually did fall in love with her, and Ferdinand because he was attracted and liked her, and while he eventually completely ended that friendship did so under the specific circumstances of a) having married someone else, b) AW dying and leaving the last will he did, and c) Heinrich taking his post 7 Years War PtSD and depression out on her. I think as a sister-in-law, Heinrich would have gotten along well with her. Or as a lady-in-waiting. In any role but that of his wife.
Re: Heinrich readthrough!
Date: 2020-05-05 03:48 am (UTC)Okay, in all of these fix-it AUs Mina has got to marry someone else :P Maybe in the AU where Voltaire saves Fritz and Heinrich is Regent Extraordinaire, he manages not to get married at all and Mina marries AW (...is it set early enough? I forget) and they become the One True Hohenzollern Love Story. (...okay, I couldn't even type that without looking at it veeeeery skeptically. But maybe it's possible?)
Re: Heinrich readthrough!
Date: 2020-05-05 04:16 am (UTC)Sadly, not unless we make it even more AU.
Heinrich's marriage to Mina: 1752
AW's cashiering: 1757
AW's death: 1758
Fritz's capture: We had tossed around a bunch of ideas and I forget if we settled on one, but the Seven Years' War is 1756-1763, and I *think* we were going for after Kunersdorf? So that would be late 1759.
Also, younger brother Heinrich as Regent presupposes AW's death and nephew FW2 as heir, so...it's hard to see what we'd do there.
Anyway, you know that in *my* fix-it AU, the story stops in the 1730s, *but*, Fritz has already given up his place in the succession, and AW will become king, so 1) AW's hardly going to force favorite brother Heinrich to get married, 2) he himself is king, so he can marry who he wants. Also, he's just about to turn 18 when FW kicks the bucket in 1740, so FW hasn't had the chance to arrange or force any marriages yet. So you know that in this universe, there's no Heinrich/Mina, and there's the possibility for AW/Mina. Or AW/Sophie von Pannewitz, or whoever AW wants.
Best of all possible worlds!
Really, Fritz not becoming king fixes SO MANY THINGS. The only thing it really breaks is us not learning about these people and getting our gossipy sensationalist fixes. :P Because as