I knew you'd like the AW story. :) But yes, I'm afraid this might not have ended too well for little AW, favourite or not. All the more impressive he didn't give up his source regardless.
Speaking of sources: according to the preface, Stratemann hung out with Seckendorf a lot, which makes sense because at this point Braunschweig and Habsburg interests were still aligned (and remember, MT's mother the Empress was a born EC von Braunschweig-Bevern). So he could have the intel from Johnn, but he could also have it from Seckendorf. Though why Seckendorf should suddenly provide him with the real goods in this particular month, and not before, I don't know, so it might be the Danes after all. (If he risked hanging out with in disgrace Løvenørn.)
One more thing about the preface: editor Richard Wolff here and in the footnotes complains about the "harsh and unloving" way Wilhelmine writes about her parents, and how the picture she paints of them is surely proven wrong by all these heartwarming stories about indulgent father FW....
...which reminds me: it really shows in all these sources (not just the ones about the Hohenzollern but also the British ones) how much parents dealing out verbal abuse to their children was treated very differently to children talking badly about their parents (or just talking back) - and not just in the 18th century but still in the 20th. Anyway, it doesn't seem to occur to Editor Wolff that one reason why Stratemann focuses to much on reporting cute anecdotes about the smaller kids is that anything he could say about the older ones (other than in euphemisms, like Wilhelmine being sick throughout the second half of 1730) would not sound good. He already had managed to secure the marriage with Charlotte (whose engagement he reports on) for his Duke, and was presumably gunning for Fritz, and if his mail got opened by Prussians, he really did not want to be found spouting criticism of FW, would be my guess.
Re: The Braunschweig Perspective : First Impressions
Speaking of sources: according to the preface, Stratemann hung out with Seckendorf a lot, which makes sense because at this point Braunschweig and Habsburg interests were still aligned (and remember, MT's mother the Empress was a born EC von Braunschweig-Bevern). So he could have the intel from Johnn, but he could also have it from Seckendorf. Though why Seckendorf should suddenly provide him with the real goods in this particular month, and not before, I don't know, so it might be the Danes after all. (If he risked hanging out with in disgrace Løvenørn.)
One more thing about the preface: editor Richard Wolff here and in the footnotes complains about the "harsh and unloving" way Wilhelmine writes about her parents, and how the picture she paints of them is surely proven wrong by all these heartwarming stories about indulgent father FW....
...which reminds me: it really shows in all these sources (not just the ones about the Hohenzollern but also the British ones) how much parents dealing out verbal abuse to their children was treated very differently to children talking badly about their parents (or just talking back) - and not just in the 18th century but still in the 20th. Anyway, it doesn't seem to occur to Editor Wolff that one reason why Stratemann focuses to much on reporting cute anecdotes about the smaller kids is that anything he could say about the older ones (other than in euphemisms, like Wilhelmine being sick throughout the second half of 1730) would not sound good. He already had managed to secure the marriage with Charlotte (whose engagement he reports on) for his Duke, and was presumably gunning for Fritz, and if his mail got opened by Prussians, he really did not want to be found spouting criticism of FW, would be my guess.