Frederick the Great, Discussion Post 20

[cahn]

Yuletide signups so far:
3 requests for Frederician RPF, 2 offers
2 requests for Circle of Voltaire RPF, 3 offers !! :D :D

(I am so curious as to who the third person is!)

Comments

Re: Krockow tidbits

[felis]

Do you think both the Mollwitz mention and the concert master anecdote might be due to a mix-up, i.e. somebody just writing "Prinz Heinrich" and meaning Heinrich von Brandenburg-Schwedt (Fritz himself certainly did this), and not Fritz' way too young brother? The Schwedt guy was certainly around during the 30s and 40s. (See also: the "Prinz Heinrich" Fritz' mentions in his masked ball letter to Wilhelmine from 1733, which I think might be this guy as well.)

Re: Krockow tidbits

[selenak]

Oh, whenever Fritz - or any of the siblings - writes "Prince Heinrich", it's always the Schwedt cousin. (When they talk of their siblings, it's always "my/our brother Heinrich/Wilhelm/Ferdinand" or "my/our sister of Bayreuth/Ansbach/Brunswick/Sweden" for the sisters. Never "Prince/Princess X".

Ditto a lot of the ambassadors writing in the 1930s - for example, Stratemann giving the seating chart at Wilhelmine's wedding, where "Prince Heinrich" and "Prince Wilhelm" are the Schwedt cousins, while "our" Heinrich and AW are "third Royal Prince" and "second Royal Prince".

So you could be right in that maybe Proebst and Mundt got confused at the mention of a "Prince Heinrich", but Zibura spotted the error, and that's why the story isn't in her biography.

Re: Krockow tidbits

[mildred_of_midgard]

Yes, this makes a lot of sense! More than the 10-yo taking over impromptu.

...Do we know if the Brandenburg-Schwedt guy had musical talent?