Finally found FWII's order in this. The mourning details start page 31, and it says that the higher officers wore black waistcoats and trousers and black hats with mourning bands, captains the same minus the hat, everyone else just a mourning band. (Lots more details concerning how and where to wear the mourning band, and also about sashes and port d'epees etc.)
And I was totally wrong about the six weeks probably being the same for Fritz! Not only that, I think I was totally wrong about the six weeks entirely and didn't read closely enough. Sigh. My head is not in the game today. So. FWII's order, August 19th, 1786, has the same nobility/royal servants/ministers thing (minus the "royal princes" for some reason), but it's six months instead of weeks. Which made me go back to the document I linked earlier and I think the six weeks there are not for the entirety of the "wearing black" part, but only for the "carriages clad in black without crest" part. There is no other mention of a time period, though. It might have been six months back then as well, because I've read repeatedly that FWII went for "do things as they were done for FW" when it came to the burial and it would make sense that the same is true for the mourning period. Which means it would render the "family" vs. "royal" mourning moot, because it'd be the same except for SD, which is the one thing that's menioned separately by Droysen.
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Re: Various questions from Mildred
Date: 2021-02-21 09:32 pm (UTC)And I was totally wrong about the six weeks probably being the same for Fritz! Not only that, I think I was totally wrong about the six weeks entirely and didn't read closely enough. Sigh. My head is not in the game today. So. FWII's order, August 19th, 1786, has the same nobility/royal servants/ministers thing (minus the "royal princes" for some reason), but it's six months instead of weeks. Which made me go back to the document I linked earlier and I think the six weeks there are not for the entirety of the "wearing black" part, but only for the "carriages clad in black without crest" part. There is no other mention of a time period, though. It might have been six months back then as well, because I've read repeatedly that FWII went for "do things as they were done for FW" when it came to the burial and it would make sense that the same is true for the mourning period. Which means it would render the "family" vs. "royal" mourning moot, because it'd be the same except for SD, which is the one thing that's menioned separately by Droysen.