but what provoked him most of all, he confessed, was to reflect that, whilst he was only busied in treaties, letters, and despatches, his booby brother, the brutal and cowardly King of Prussia, should pass his time in camps, and in the midst of arms, neither desirous of the glory nor fit for the employment
LOLOL that's SO GREAT. Unforgiveablest of beings indeed!
I needed that for my probably never going to be written AU where Fritz makes it to England. I already had him sighing about having to take up hunting as a political concession; now I'm imagining listening to lectures from G2 on how the sword is the only way for a prince to win glory.
makes me think Heinrich wasn't wrong when in his RPG with AW when assuming Britain would not have been willing to go to total war for Hannover
Yep, makes sense.
It was reported, and I believe not without foundation, that our Monarch on this occasion sent or would have sent a challenge of single combat to his Prussian Majesty;
What. G2, didn't you already lose the single combat with FW when you were twice his size? I don't care how gouty he is, I'd watch out. He's in practice, if nothing else!
but whether it was carried and rejected, or whether the prayers and remonstrances of Lord Townshend prevented the gauntlet being actually thrown down, is a point which to me at least has never been cleared.
Um. selenak, FW would have taken him up on the challenge, are you with me on this? Even if he got talked out of it, I suspect Wilhelmine would have heard about it and reported the conversation.
FW to SD: I already kicked your brother's sorry ass once; now he wants a piece of me again? Bring it on!
So I'm going to go with "calmer heads prevailed in England."
he irritated his English subjects by spending part of his time in Hannover, like his father had done:
I just today got to the part in Wilhelmine's memoirs where she claims that the following happened.
The English want Fritz of Wales in England, not Hanover. (The story checks out so far.) G2 wants him in Hanover, because a party will form around him in England if he's there. So they decide that FoW should sneak off to Berlin, marry Wilhelmine, and then G2 will have an excuse Parliament can't argue with for keeping him on the Continent. Only SD gives the game away by being indiscreet, the English ministers find out, and the plot falls through.
I gather Hervey's memoirs don't support this, since he doesn't get into the fire swamp that is the double marriage intrigues, but I'm wondering if there's any evidence for this outside Wilhelmine's memoirs.
Re: Hervey's Memoirs: The Prussia Connection
LOLOL that's SO GREAT. Unforgiveablest of beings indeed!
I needed that for my probably never going to be written AU where Fritz makes it to England. I already had him sighing about having to take up hunting as a political concession; now I'm imagining listening to lectures from G2 on how the sword is the only way for a prince to win glory.
makes me think Heinrich wasn't wrong when in his RPG with AW when assuming Britain would not have been willing to go to total war for Hannover
Yep, makes sense.
It was reported, and I believe not without foundation, that our Monarch on this occasion sent or would have sent a challenge of single combat to his Prussian Majesty;
What. G2, didn't you already lose the single combat with FW when you were twice his size? I don't care how gouty he is, I'd watch out. He's in practice, if nothing else!
but whether it was carried and rejected, or whether the prayers and remonstrances of Lord Townshend prevented the gauntlet being actually thrown down, is a point which to me at least has never been cleared.
Um.
FW to SD: I already kicked your brother's sorry ass once; now he wants a piece of me again? Bring it on!
So I'm going to go with "calmer heads prevailed in England."
he irritated his English subjects by spending part of his time in Hannover, like his father had done:
I just today got to the part in Wilhelmine's memoirs where she claims that the following happened.
The English want Fritz of Wales in England, not Hanover. (The story checks out so far.) G2 wants him in Hanover, because a party will form around him in England if he's there. So they decide that FoW should sneak off to Berlin, marry Wilhelmine, and then G2 will have an excuse Parliament can't argue with for keeping him on the Continent. Only SD gives the game away by being indiscreet, the English ministers find out, and the plot falls through.
I gather Hervey's memoirs don't support this, since he doesn't get into the fire swamp that is the double marriage intrigues, but I'm wondering if there's any evidence for this outside Wilhelmine's memoirs.