Who did generally have a good reading on FW, plus of course had Grumbkow to tell him the FW mood du jour. Mind you, if this was the same day FW was absolutely incensed to learn the Katte verdict, he was hardly in a calm state of mind. So maybe Seckendorff, with or without Grumbkow's imput, also saw the connection between FW deciding not to kill his son but killing Katte as a replacement victim. (Jochen Kepler in his FW novel Der Vater lets FW pull out all the Abraham-Isaac-ram similes at this point.)
Is this like Wilhelmine saying that her promise not to let the Marwitzes marry outside of Prussia died with FW?
I guess. Though imo if Charles hadn't died, Fritz would not have been idle for long but found a different excuse to cover himself with military glory by invading. Maybe he'd have offered Charles his "protection", too
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Re: Peter Keith
Date: 2020-10-12 06:43 am (UTC)Who did generally have a good reading on FW, plus of course had Grumbkow to tell him the FW mood du jour. Mind you, if this was the same day FW was absolutely incensed to learn the Katte verdict, he was hardly in a calm state of mind. So maybe Seckendorff, with or without Grumbkow's imput, also saw the connection between FW deciding not to kill his son but killing Katte as a replacement victim. (Jochen Kepler in his FW novel Der Vater lets FW pull out all the Abraham-Isaac-ram similes at this point.)
Is this like Wilhelmine saying that her promise not to let the Marwitzes marry outside of Prussia died with FW?
I guess. Though imo if Charles hadn't died, Fritz would not have been idle for long but found a different excuse to cover himself with military glory by invading. Maybe he'd have offered Charles his "protection", too