More stories from Küstrin about how everyone, not just local nobility but French, Dutch, British and from the other German states keeps sending food and drink to Fritz but under incognito names and everyone is rooting for FW to release him.
I feel like this is a sign that nobody considers his current diet adequate! Though that could admittedly be an SD-type complaint about the appropriateness of the food rather than the amount.
He's sent fool garnments and refuses to wear them (Stratemann: But they were presents! How could he!).
SIGH.
and tore at his hair and strangled him so much that he'd have killed him if (Marcus) had not been saved by the surrounding officers.
SIGH.
SD resenting the hell out of Wilhelmine's accepting the Bayreuth marriage in rl (and in younger Seckendorff's description when Wilhelmine is already married, so we don't have to rely on Wilhelmine's own word about this)
Thank you for reminding me of this. It's good to know when Wilhelmine is backed by independent sources.
Meanwhile, the British envoy: Wilhelmine looked pale and if she'd faint the entire time, and the Queen was upset and almost in tears, and the King glowered. Taking the British bias into acccount, I suppose the truth was somewhere in between, but Stratemann's polyanna-ness is still striking.
Hah. It's so good to have multiple sources with differing biases.
You might recall that Isabella makes a similar pun in a letter to Maria Christina.
I had forgotten that, but will always remember the famous "Non Angli sed Angeli" quip attributed to Gregory the Great many centuries earlier.
FW is hell bent on making Wilhelmine and future Margrave have sex and consumate the marriage before it's a marriage. Why? Because that would make it legal as a marriage, and rumor has it the Brits are making trouble by pointing to Fritz' of Wales' earlier claim to Wilhelmine's hand, which supposedly invalidates her current engagement. Mind you, having read Hervey's memoirs where the whole thing only gets half a sentence mention, I really doubt that, but I can see SD spreading such a rumor via her daughter's governesses, which, see above, I think were Stratemann's sources.
Yep. In her memoirs, Wilhelmine has SD coming to her on the morning of her wedding and telling her, "Whatever you do, DON'T sleep with your husband. We need to be able to nullify this marriage later so you can fulfill your destiny of living the kind of life I wanted to live marry your cousin!"
Re: The Braunschweig Perspective: On the Wings of an Angel
I feel like this is a sign that nobody considers his current diet adequate! Though that could admittedly be an SD-type complaint about the appropriateness of the food rather than the amount.
He's sent fool garnments and refuses to wear them (Stratemann: But they were presents! How could he!).
SIGH.
and tore at his hair and strangled him so much that he'd have killed him if (Marcus) had not been saved by the surrounding officers.
SIGH.
SD resenting the hell out of Wilhelmine's accepting the Bayreuth marriage in rl (and in younger Seckendorff's description when Wilhelmine is already married, so we don't have to rely on Wilhelmine's own word about this)
Thank you for reminding me of this. It's good to know when Wilhelmine is backed by independent sources.
Meanwhile, the British envoy: Wilhelmine looked pale and if she'd faint the entire time, and the Queen was upset and almost in tears, and the King glowered. Taking the British bias into acccount, I suppose the truth was somewhere in between, but Stratemann's polyanna-ness is still striking.
Hah. It's so good to have multiple sources with differing biases.
You might recall that Isabella makes a similar pun in a letter to Maria Christina.
I had forgotten that, but will always remember the famous "Non Angli sed Angeli" quip attributed to Gregory the Great many centuries earlier.
FW is hell bent on making Wilhelmine and future Margrave have sex and consumate the marriage before it's a marriage. Why? Because that would make it legal as a marriage, and rumor has it the Brits are making trouble by pointing to Fritz' of Wales' earlier claim to Wilhelmine's hand, which supposedly invalidates her current engagement. Mind you, having read Hervey's memoirs where the whole thing only gets half a sentence mention, I really doubt that, but I can see SD spreading such a rumor via her daughter's governesses, which, see above, I think were Stratemann's sources.
Yep. In her memoirs, Wilhelmine has SD coming to her on the morning of her wedding and telling her, "Whatever you do, DON'T sleep with your husband. We need to be able to nullify this marriage later so you can
fulfill your destiny of living the kind of life I wanted to livemarry your cousin!"