Thank you so so much! I continue to have a very crowded week, so will have to be brief, but can't resist commenting.
Madame de B... - too early for Bentinck, I suppose? If Lehndorff's diaries are anything to go by, she doesn't become a regular in Berlin until 1751/1752 or thereabouts, I think.
Early on, Schwedt cousin Wilhelm dies of an errant cannon shot at Prague and Fritz is worried how SD is going to take that
Intriguing, as I hadn't thought SD cared one way or the other about the Schwedt cousins. Otoh reading further, it occurs to me he was afraid SD might hear a royal prince had died, and wrongly assume it was one of her sons?
Adelaide: given she features also in the Fritz/Fredersdorf letters of the same era (i.e. Fritz wanting to make sure she's taken care of), and given that Lehndorff later frequently grumbles she's getting away with everything, a case can be made being a child of Keyserlingk was a way better thing to be than being a Hohenzollern in terms of how Fritz will treat you....
Re: Camas Letters II - Countess Camas Part One (1744/45)
Madame de B... - too early for Bentinck, I suppose? If Lehndorff's diaries are anything to go by, she doesn't become a regular in Berlin until 1751/1752 or thereabouts, I think.
Early on, Schwedt cousin Wilhelm dies of an errant cannon shot at Prague and Fritz is worried how SD is going to take that
Intriguing, as I hadn't thought SD cared one way or the other about the Schwedt cousins. Otoh reading further, it occurs to me he was afraid SD might hear a royal prince had died, and wrongly assume it was one of her sons?
Adelaide: given she features also in the Fritz/Fredersdorf letters of the same era (i.e. Fritz wanting to make sure she's taken care of), and given that Lehndorff later frequently grumbles she's getting away with everything, a case can be made being a child of Keyserlingk was a way better thing to be than being a Hohenzollern in terms of how Fritz will treat you....