there are many archives in Germany I would like to email with questions like this, but I don't speak German well enough to carry on a correspondence.
Email away. They all speak English. Seriously. Knowledge of other foreign languages like French, or Latin, or Spanish, or Russian, or Greek depends on what type of school you visit, but everyone going to a German school who is younger than, oh, 6o, had to take English to a level where they can correspond in and talk it.
The English proposing Peter Keith as envoy: that is very interesting. Alas, 47 is way too late for Hervey (he died in the early 1740s) to consult. In addition to Caroline being dead, Sir Robert Walpole who was PM when Peter was there is out of the government, there are new ministers all around as far as I know. So who did make the suggestion? Of course, an irresistable fanwank occurs to me: Peter did meet Algarotti....and young Andrew Mitchell. By 1747, Andrew Mitchell was rising in the ranks of the foreign office - not yet enough to be envoy himself, but he was certainly forming connections with Lords Holderness and Newcastle. Maybe he recced Peter?
Fritz the paranoid being Fritz the paranoid: unsurprising, if bad for Peter.
All of which is to say that Fritz generally doesn't trust the people he met socially with anything resembling power. Which is why Fredersdorf getting to be spymaster and treasurer is so unusual.
Definitely Fritz' favourite husband, too.
I finally came up with a way for Peter and Ariane to meet in the same year that they met in real life.
Lovely! I was wondering about her fate in your AU.
Re: Peter Keith
Email away. They all speak English. Seriously. Knowledge of other foreign languages like French, or Latin, or Spanish, or Russian, or Greek depends on what type of school you visit, but everyone going to a German school who is younger than, oh, 6o, had to take English to a level where they can correspond in and talk it.
The English proposing Peter Keith as envoy: that is very interesting. Alas, 47 is way too late for Hervey (he died in the early 1740s) to consult. In addition to Caroline being dead, Sir Robert Walpole who was PM when Peter was there is out of the government, there are new ministers all around as far as I know. So who did make the suggestion? Of course, an irresistable fanwank occurs to me: Peter did meet Algarotti....and young Andrew Mitchell. By 1747, Andrew Mitchell was rising in the ranks of the foreign office - not yet enough to be envoy himself, but he was certainly forming connections with Lords Holderness and Newcastle. Maybe he recced Peter?
Fritz the paranoid being Fritz the paranoid: unsurprising, if bad for Peter.
All of which is to say that Fritz generally doesn't trust the people he met socially with anything resembling power. Which is why Fredersdorf getting to be spymaster and treasurer is so unusual.
Definitely Fritz' favourite husband, too.
I finally came up with a way for Peter and Ariane to meet in the same year that they met in real life.
Lovely! I was wondering about her fate in your AU.