Happy birthday, Fritz! To salute the occasion, here's the report of his birth as given by F1's master of the ceremonies (you know, presumably the same guy Mildred mentioned earlier). The Crown Princess is SD, H.M. - His Majesty - is F1. Note that the actual father, FW, still Crown Prince, is not mentioned:
Sunday morning after the sermon, as a sermon for a happy recovery of the Crown Princess had just been finished near the hour of birth, she gave birth between 11 and 12 o'clock of to her third prince , the current Prince ofPrussia and Orania . H.M . [ Frederick 1. ] had just sat down at his table in order to dine, but as shortly thereafter the happy news of the birth of a prince was announced by the royal physician, Hofrat Gundelsheim, H. M. was so much transported with joy about it that he let himself be carried to the Crown Princess at once and afterwards was not able to eat anything.
The bells were rung immediately and the canons on the walls were fired, so that in a moment the whole city and the court were put into unspeakable [joy ). H. M. declared that this prince, too, like the previous ones should receive the titles »Prince of Prussia and Orania » and decorated him at 2 o'clock in the afternoon with a completely new order of merit which he put on him, for which H. M. once again had himself be carried to H.R.H. the Crown Princess . As H.M . came back from the princess' room and just wanted to sit down in his chair, I stepped towards him and offered my most humble congratulations, and because I recalled, among other things, that since this prince was chronologically the third born by the Crown Princess, we could hope that he, too, would be the one to stay alive, and should follow H. M.'s happy example of achieving government, as he, too, had lost his two older brothers and had become the third prince successively of the House Elector. This, H.M. received with such a great pleasure that he declared "I will also give him my name".
In order to suggest it to the Crown Princess, he returned to her chamber.
Re: January 24
Sunday morning after the sermon, as a sermon for a happy recovery of the Crown Princess had just been finished near the hour of birth, she gave birth between 11 and 12 o'clock of to her third prince , the current Prince ofPrussia and Orania . H.M . [ Frederick 1. ] had just sat down at his table in order to dine, but as shortly thereafter the happy news of the birth of a prince was announced by the royal physician, Hofrat Gundelsheim, H. M. was so much transported with joy about it that he let himself be carried to the Crown Princess at once and afterwards was not able to eat anything.
The bells were rung immediately and the canons on the walls were fired, so that in a moment the whole city and the court were put into unspeakable [joy ). H. M. declared that this prince, too, like the previous ones should receive the titles »Prince of Prussia and Orania » and decorated him at 2 o'clock in the afternoon with a completely new order of merit which he put on him, for which H. M. once again had himself be carried to H.R.H. the Crown Princess .
As H.M . came back from the princess' room and just wanted to sit down in his chair, I stepped towards him and offered my most humble congratulations, and because I recalled, among other things, that since this prince was chronologically the third born by the Crown Princess, we could hope that he, too, would be the one to stay alive, and should follow H. M.'s happy example of achieving government, as he, too, had lost his two older brothers and had become the third prince successively of the House Elector. This, H.M. received with such a great pleasure that he declared "I will also give him my name".
In order to suggest it to the Crown Princess, he returned to her chamber.