We are promised the great nephew. His love is as cold as his whole person; but what do you care?
Does he mean Charlotte's son? Because the phrasing is ambiguous, and I wonder about "great nephew" - could the translation also be "tall nephew"? Because future FW2 was taller than most in the rather small and medium sized family, and Fritz frequently remarks on how he's grown in his letters to other people in the 7 Years War years. It would make sense if he was summoned on the occasion of Charlotte's visit, though conversely it would also make sense if she brought her son along. "Prince Friedrich" is definitely future FW2 - Lehndorff refers to him by that name through the war and only settles on "Prince of Prussia" in the post war years, avoiding the first names thereafter.
Our family seems to me a forest in which a hurricane has knocked down the most beautiful trees, and where from distance to distance you can see some thinned out fir tree hanging on by its roots, only to contemplate the fall of his companions, and the damage and devastation the storm has wrought.
I recognize that image! He also uses it when writing to Heinrich about the death of sister Friedrike (the Ansbach sister) later. Incidentally, that Fritz is affected by the deaths of Sophie and Friederike, the two Cinderella sisters, in a way, among the siblings (as in, the two with the worst husbands and the two who didn't share their siblings fondness for music and books), speaks well of him.
Re: Camas Letters II - Countess Camas Part Three (1764/65)
Does he mean Charlotte's son? Because the phrasing is ambiguous, and I wonder about "great nephew" - could the translation also be "tall nephew"? Because future FW2 was taller than most in the rather small and medium sized family, and Fritz frequently remarks on how he's grown in his letters to other people in the 7 Years War years. It would make sense if he was summoned on the occasion of Charlotte's visit, though conversely it would also make sense if she brought her son along. "Prince Friedrich" is definitely future FW2 - Lehndorff refers to him by that name through the war and only settles on "Prince of Prussia" in the post war years, avoiding the first names thereafter.
Our family seems to me a forest in which a hurricane has knocked down the most beautiful trees, and where from distance to distance you can see some thinned out fir tree hanging on by its roots, only to contemplate the fall of his companions, and the damage and devastation the storm has wrought.
I recognize that image! He also uses it when writing to Heinrich about the death of sister Friedrike (the Ansbach sister) later. Incidentally, that Fritz is affected by the deaths of Sophie and Friederike, the two Cinderella sisters, in a way, among the siblings (as in, the two with the worst husbands and the two who didn't share their siblings fondness for music and books), speaks well of him.