Elisabeth Christine let everyone feel through her imperious nature that she was finally the only queen.
Is this right? Huh. I guess I can understan why EC might want to punch down herself a little for a brief moment
Ziebura has this from Lehndorff, who certainly had that impression directly after SD's death. (I think I told you about this? He even has an argument re: SD's funeral arrangements with her, and she apologizes the next day, but this doesn't make him feel much warmer towards her. This series of entries are the ones containing the "she'd have made an excellent burgher's wife" dig, amidst raving about how great SD was at Queendom.) I was a tad sceptical during my original reading of the diaries, but Sophie von Voss backs him up here - i.e. EC after SD's death trying to be more authoritarian (and failing at it) - so now I think it was another case of damned if you do, damned of you don't for her. (Her mother-in-law had critisized her as not sufficiently regal, after all.)
Aw, I remember selenak telling us about that passage where Lehndorff is rolling his eyes that Mina is so upset about Heinrich's wound. It's still pretty funny to me :P
Lehndorff is usually complimentary about Mina, and during the time they lived together in Heinrich's Berlin residence (remember, when Lehndorff had no more Berlin place but wanted to live there to be near his sons and Heinrich told him to move into his town residence with his family, ca. 1799), he had tea with her every day- but every now and then you get a remark like this, complete with an aside that she hears perfectly well and yet they had to repeat to her three times that Heinrich was fine before she got up again. You can practically hear him think "if anyone gets to faint at the prospect of Heinrich being wounded, it's me, and I don't do it, plus we all now how things are between you two, so cut the dramatics!"
Did AW give Mina his engagement ring?? I mean, I guess it's not quite as bad as giving her his kids, but...
Yes, he did. It was also the ring he was wearing all the time. The fact that he did made the rounds quickly, since Lehndorff knows about this detail even before Heinrich's January visit to Berlin as executor of AW's will.
Re: No Pity for the Wives readthrough (cont) - Seven Years' War
Is this right? Huh. I guess I can understan why EC might want to punch down herself a little for a brief moment
Ziebura has this from Lehndorff, who certainly had that impression directly after SD's death. (I think I told you about this? He even has an argument re: SD's funeral arrangements with her, and she apologizes the next day, but this doesn't make him feel much warmer towards her. This series of entries are the ones containing the "she'd have made an excellent burgher's wife" dig, amidst raving about how great SD was at Queendom.) I was a tad sceptical during my original reading of the diaries, but Sophie von Voss backs him up here - i.e. EC after SD's death trying to be more authoritarian (and failing at it) - so now I think it was another case of damned if you do, damned of you don't for her. (Her mother-in-law had critisized her as not sufficiently regal, after all.)
Aw, I remember
Lehndorff is usually complimentary about Mina, and during the time they lived together in Heinrich's Berlin residence (remember, when Lehndorff had no more Berlin place but wanted to live there to be near his sons and Heinrich told him to move into his town residence with his family, ca. 1799), he had tea with her every day- but every now and then you get a remark like this, complete with an aside that she hears perfectly well and yet they had to repeat to her three times that Heinrich was fine before she got up again. You can practically hear him think "if anyone gets to faint at the prospect of Heinrich being wounded, it's me, and I don't do it, plus we all now how things are between you two, so cut the dramatics!"
Did AW give Mina his engagement ring?? I mean, I guess it's not quite as bad as giving her his kids, but...
Yes, he did. It was also the ring he was wearing all the time. The fact that he did made the rounds quickly, since Lehndorff knows about this detail even before Heinrich's January visit to Berlin as executor of AW's will.