Meaning: he probably knew about Fritz favoring the Scottish Keiths, who actually were Jacobites, and the story of sending George Keith as ambassador to Versailles despite the insult to uncle G2. Maybe when that happened G2 said something like "typical! I bet his mother put him up to it!" and thus the English court, unfamiliar with SD as a person for the most part, drew this "aha! SD the Jacobite!" conclusion.
Yeah, this strikes me as being akin to Thiébault claiming FW totally wanted one son to be HRE and the other King in Prussia! It makes perfect sense if you don't know just how relentlessly committed FW was to his religious beliefs.
Speaking of SD's politics, I keep seeing in places like Ziebura and Oster that she was disappointed that Fritz didn't let her influence him politically. Is there evidence for this, or just an assumption?
Algarotti: might reconsider Lady Mary as an option, because Hervey vs Fritz of Prussia is bound to get way uglier than his rl triangle. Or maybe he elopes with Andrew Mitchell. :)
Ha. I advise eloping. The farther the better.
Lady Mary: Will go to Japan as long as you're coming too!
what does Fritz of Prussia do the first time G2 disses the Best of All Mothers in his presence?
I did think of that when I was writing that up, and I'm not sure. Part of it depends on what G2 says, and how G2 responds when Fritz starts defending her, and I just don't know.
Re: Hervey's Memoirs: King Lear's Family has nothing on this
Yeah, this strikes me as being akin to Thiébault claiming FW totally wanted one son to be HRE and the other King in Prussia! It makes perfect sense if you don't know just how relentlessly committed FW was to his religious beliefs.
Speaking of SD's politics, I keep seeing in places like Ziebura and Oster that she was disappointed that Fritz didn't let her influence him politically. Is there evidence for this, or just an assumption?
Algarotti: might reconsider Lady Mary as an option, because Hervey vs Fritz of Prussia is bound to get way uglier than his rl triangle. Or maybe he elopes with Andrew Mitchell. :)
Ha. I advise eloping. The farther the better.
Lady Mary: Will go to Japan as long as you're coming too!
what does Fritz of Prussia do the first time G2 disses the Best of All Mothers in his presence?
I did think of that when I was writing that up, and I'm not sure. Part of it depends on what G2 says, and how G2 responds when Fritz starts defending her, and I just don't know.