Which rather makes it sound as if he didn't predict it to anyone (at least not of the Braunschweig clan), though he may have thought it.
Mmhmmm. Side-eyeing you, Fritz.
Still, this is actually a decent letter, leaving the depressing conclusion that it's the EC factor that changes Fritz' emotional disposition from able to come up with a reasonably (for Fritz) good letter to defensive and awfully phrased.
Yes, with a slight twist that he wrote to Fredersdorf that Albert was died, not much lost there, which strikes me as his true opinion of the guy. So while EC is the odd one out in not getting a condolence letter until October 9th, Karl is the odd one out for the sheer amount of diplomacy wrt Fritz's opinion of the guy. Kinda thinking Fritz is invested in keeping the Duke as ally? Whereas he has no reason to be diplomatic with EC or to hide his real feelings with Fredersdorf.
Perhaps he thought Duke Karl hadn't been as keen on brother Albert as EC on the earlier occasion?
Perhaps. Or perhaps the timing is key: he wrote a diplomatic letter of his own free will to the guy he wanted to keep sending family members and subjects to die for the cause of Fritz, then he didn't want to write about Albert to EC at all, then he felt pressured into doing it at week later. I'm still guessing AW used the words "died in your service."
This is delicious because of the way all the Hohenzollern, male and female alike, and following their lead the Prussian courtiers like Lehndorff, looked down on the Braunschweig sisters as provincial Cinderellas.
To be fair, all of the Hohenzollerns by blood or marriage, starting with SD, looked down on FW as a provincial Cinderella, so I'm not sure they would disagree with Sophie's assessment? Especially if FW was actually in residence when she visited, as opposed to just SD.
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Re: Follow-Up Condolence Letters
Date: 2020-11-27 12:27 pm (UTC)Which rather makes it sound as if he didn't predict it to anyone (at least not of the Braunschweig clan), though he may have thought it.
Mmhmmm. Side-eyeing you, Fritz.
Still, this is actually a decent letter, leaving the depressing conclusion that it's the EC factor that changes Fritz' emotional disposition from able to come up with a reasonably (for Fritz) good letter to defensive and awfully phrased.
Yes, with a slight twist that he wrote to Fredersdorf that Albert was died, not much lost there, which strikes me as his true opinion of the guy. So while EC is the odd one out in not getting a condolence letter until October 9th, Karl is the odd one out for the sheer amount of diplomacy wrt Fritz's opinion of the guy. Kinda thinking Fritz is invested in keeping the Duke as ally? Whereas he has no reason to be diplomatic with EC or to hide his real feelings with Fredersdorf.
Perhaps he thought Duke Karl hadn't been as keen on brother Albert as EC on the earlier occasion?
Perhaps. Or perhaps the timing is key: he wrote a diplomatic letter of his own free will to the guy he wanted to keep sending family members and subjects to die for the cause of Fritz, then he didn't want to write about Albert to EC at all, then he felt pressured into doing it at week later. I'm still guessing AW used the words "died in your service."
This is delicious because of the way all the Hohenzollern, male and female alike, and following their lead the Prussian courtiers like Lehndorff, looked down on the Braunschweig sisters as provincial Cinderellas.
To be fair, all of the Hohenzollerns by blood or marriage, starting with SD, looked down on FW as a provincial Cinderella, so I'm not sure they would disagree with Sophie's assessment? Especially if FW was actually in residence when she visited, as opposed to just SD.