This is all fascinating! I do think Wilhelmine must have been a reluctant conspirator, if she was a conspirator. And I can totally see how, if she was, that could easily have turned into her memoir-as-therapy saying "It was totally a bad idea, see??"
Now, that letter *really* can't be trusted, but given who Katte's father and grandfather were, I imagine he would expect some kind of preferment as a matter of course, and that's not mutually exclusive with him having real feelings for Fritz.
Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty common thing with humans. It's hard or impossible to turn off what you know of someone's external situation, but you can fall in love with someone at the same time as you are perfectly aware that person is the Crown Prince and will someday be King.
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Re: Wilhelmine's Memoirs
Date: 2020-10-02 04:46 am (UTC)Now, that letter *really* can't be trusted, but given who Katte's father and grandfather were, I imagine he would expect some kind of preferment as a matter of course, and that's not mutually exclusive with him having real feelings for Fritz.
Yeah, I mean, it's a pretty common thing with humans. It's hard or impossible to turn off what you know of someone's external situation, but you can fall in love with someone at the same time as you are perfectly aware that person is the Crown Prince and will someday be King.