* Suhm cameo! FW is going to Saxony, Fritz is sad because he's not invited, Wilhelmine tells Suhm, Suhm tells Augustus the Strong, and Augustus obligingly invites Fritz, and FW lets him come. And then the whole insane Dresden interlude ensues.
Wilhelmine says she knew Suhm "very well" and he was very friendly to her brother. <3
* I was right about Wilhelmine attributing her brother's interest in people who were not her to the lack of governor's influence: immediately before Peter Keith is introduced, she says, "Dad was whaling on Fritz more than usual, nobody dared to talk to him, his governors didn't dare to follow him around and regulate his behavior, so he led a very dissolute life, with Page Keith as his pander."
Fritz is in disgrace with his father and therefore the people appointed by FW to make him behave don't dare speak to him to make him behave?? Much more likely: Keyserlingk was like, "Wow, this kid's life sucks. I think I'll look the other way while he explores his sexuality. Then someday I'll be on the top 6 list of most loved, and he'll cut my daughter some slack while she has sexual adventures after my death."
Wow, she doesn't like his boyfriends. cahn, just as a reminder:
[Fritz] entirely abandoned himself to debaucheries. One of the pages of the king, named Keith, was the pandar of his vices. This young man had found means to insinuate himself so much, that the prince was passionately fond of him, and gave him his entire confidence. I knew nothing of his irregularities, but I had noticed some familiarities which he had with this page, and I often reproached him about it; representing to him that such manners were unsuitable to his rank. But he excused himself, saying that as the young man reported to him all that passed, he was induced to treat him kindly; particularly as the information he conveyed to him, saved him from many vexations.
Classist, homophobic, or both? I mean, I know it's a cover for "Don't leeeeave meeeee!", but given that she can't say that in so many words, how would Fritz have perceived it?
Also, lol at Peter as pander. I mean, I'm sure if Fritz wanted to meet with Doris or Orzelska-in-disguise, Peter would help! But yeah, things are going to be interesting when it's Fritz, Wilhelmine, Katte, and Keith in exile in France together. I bet she'll write an opera. :P
* Wilhelmine on Fritz of Wales, the love rat:
A man who has mistresses, becomes attached to them, and to that degree his love for his true spouse diminishes.
This is so telling: love is a zero sum game, Fritz can't have boyfriends or love his wife, her husband definitely can't have mistresses, and she is *not* down for polyamory. She's in the majority, even today, obviously! But that possessiveness is very IC.
* Herr von Knyphausen cameo! Assuming it's the same guy, and since he seems to be hobnobbing with foreign envoys, I think it is...we know him as 1) the go-between for Fritz and French Count Rottembourg, since Rottembourg and Fritz had to pretend not to be interested in each other while they spied on FW and tried to arrange a coup, and 2) Peter's future father-in-law. Although he will die 10 years before Peter and Ariane get married, and it's
Ugh, German wiki tells me that in addition to having been envoy to places like France, Spain, Russia, and Denmark back in the day, he was also president of the Brandenburg-African company, aka the Prussian slave trade, until F1 dissolved it. Bad Knyphausen.
* FW threatening to lock Wilhelmine up with the guy he's trying to get her to marry, the Duke of Weißenfels, and says that after that, she'll be only too glad to marry him. Is that a rape threat or just a loss of reputation threat?
* According to Wilhelmine, Jean-Charles de Folard, who Wikipedia tells me was a famous military theorist, did a detailed description of the Zeithain camp. I would very much like to get my hands on that, since I really want a detailed description beyond what I've been able to find online so far. (Reason: fix-it fic opens with Fritz and Katte at the camp, where they make their escape from.)
* Remember the rats at Küstrin story, where Fritz tells Wilhelmine that ghosts are mostly rats?
Wilhelmine recounts a similar episode, where she and SD were hanging out and heard some horrible shrieking sound in a nearby corridor, but every time they went to investigate, there was nothing there. SD told her to mark the date, and it turned not only to be the same day that Fritz got arrested for trying to escape while on a road trip with FW, but the same corridor on which FW and SD had their first encounter when an angry FW returned.
Wilhelmine: "I believe there was a natural cause."
She never figured out what it was, but she evidently agrees with Fritz on the supernatural.
* Wilhelmine is corresponding with an imprisoned Fritz secretly, but can't bring herself to burn the letters, so she has them sent to safety. This means she might actually have had access to them all when writing the memoirs. She does claim to be copying some verbatim, but I'd always assumed most of them got burned. Guess not!
* Wilhelmine: repeatedly mentions that she got married for Fritz, and later will complain that he wasn't grateful. Does not mention, at least as far as I've read, and I've gotten to the Berlin revue in May, that Fritz wrote her a letter telling her not to, i.e. that he was willing to sacrifice himself for *her*.
Re: Wilhelmine's Memoirs
* Suhm cameo! FW is going to Saxony, Fritz is sad because he's not invited, Wilhelmine tells Suhm, Suhm tells Augustus the Strong, and Augustus obligingly invites Fritz, and FW lets him come. And then the whole insane Dresden interlude ensues.
Wilhelmine says she knew Suhm "very well" and he was very friendly to her brother. <3
* I was right about Wilhelmine attributing her brother's interest in
people who were not herto the lack of governor's influence: immediately before Peter Keith is introduced, she says, "Dad was whaling on Fritz more than usual, nobody dared to talk to him, his governors didn't dare to follow him around and regulate his behavior, so he led a very dissolute life, with Page Keith as his pander."Fritz is in disgrace with his father and therefore the people appointed by FW to make him behave don't dare speak to him to make him behave?? Much more likely: Keyserlingk was like, "Wow, this kid's life sucks. I think I'll look the other way while he explores his sexuality. Then someday I'll be on the top 6 list of most loved, and he'll cut my daughter some slack while she has sexual adventures after my death."
Wow, she doesn't like his boyfriends.
[Fritz] entirely abandoned himself to debaucheries. One of the pages of the king, named Keith, was the pandar of his vices. This young man had found means to insinuate himself so much, that the prince was passionately fond of him, and gave him his entire confidence. I knew nothing of his irregularities, but I had noticed some familiarities which he had with this page, and I often reproached him about it; representing to him that such manners were unsuitable to his rank. But he excused himself, saying that as the young man reported to him all that passed, he was induced to treat him kindly; particularly as the information he conveyed to him, saved him from many vexations.
Classist, homophobic, or both? I mean, I know it's a cover for "Don't leeeeave meeeee!", but given that she can't say that in so many words, how would Fritz have perceived it?
Also, lol at Peter as pander. I mean, I'm sure if Fritz wanted to meet with Doris or Orzelska-in-disguise, Peter would help! But yeah, things are going to be interesting when it's Fritz, Wilhelmine, Katte, and Keith in exile in France together. I bet she'll write an opera. :P
* Wilhelmine on Fritz of Wales, the love rat:
A man who has mistresses, becomes attached to them, and to that degree his love for his true spouse diminishes.
This is so telling: love is a zero sum game, Fritz can't have boyfriends or love his wife, her husband definitely can't have mistresses, and she is *not* down for polyamory. She's in the majority, even today, obviously! But that possessiveness is very IC.
* Herr von Knyphausen cameo! Assuming it's the same guy, and since he seems to be hobnobbing with foreign envoys, I think it is...we know him as 1) the go-between for Fritz and French Count Rottembourg, since Rottembourg and Fritz had to pretend not to be interested in each other while they spied on FW and tried to arrange a coup, and 2) Peter's future father-in-law. Although he will die 10 years before Peter and Ariane get married, and it's
Ugh, German wiki tells me that in addition to having been envoy to places like France, Spain, Russia, and Denmark back in the day, he was also president of the Brandenburg-African company, aka the Prussian slave trade, until F1 dissolved it. Bad Knyphausen.
* FW threatening to lock Wilhelmine up with the guy he's trying to get her to marry, the Duke of Weißenfels, and says that after that, she'll be only too glad to marry him. Is that a rape threat or just a loss of reputation threat?
* According to Wilhelmine, Jean-Charles de Folard, who Wikipedia tells me was a famous military theorist, did a detailed description of the Zeithain camp. I would very much like to get my hands on that, since I really want a detailed description beyond what I've been able to find online so far. (Reason: fix-it fic opens with Fritz and Katte at the camp, where they make their escape from.)
* Remember the rats at Küstrin story, where Fritz tells Wilhelmine that ghosts are mostly rats?
Wilhelmine recounts a similar episode, where she and SD were hanging out and heard some horrible shrieking sound in a nearby corridor, but every time they went to investigate, there was nothing there. SD told her to mark the date, and it turned not only to be the same day that Fritz got arrested for trying to escape while on a road trip with FW, but the same corridor on which FW and SD had their first encounter when an angry FW returned.
Wilhelmine: "I believe there was a natural cause."
She never figured out what it was, but she evidently agrees with Fritz on the supernatural.
* Wilhelmine is corresponding with an imprisoned Fritz secretly, but can't bring herself to burn the letters, so she has them sent to safety. This means she might actually have had access to them all when writing the memoirs. She does claim to be copying some verbatim, but I'd always assumed most of them got burned. Guess not!
* Wilhelmine: repeatedly mentions that she got married for Fritz, and later will complain that he wasn't grateful. Does not mention, at least as far as I've read, and I've gotten to the Berlin revue in May, that Fritz wrote her a letter telling her not to, i.e. that he was willing to sacrifice himself for *her*.