Not that Ziebura quoted them in her biography. Mind you, I always suspected that Heinrich micromanaging his own funeral in advance was partly because of that. As to how Heinrich and Ferdinand felt about FW2 disregarding Fritz' wishes re: the manner of his burial: mixed, probably. Between AW's fate and FW2's youth,they might have seen it as an avenging gesture FW2 was entitled to, or they could have seen it as disrespect towards the older generation not boding well for their own futures. (Well, Heinrich's future at any rate, since Ferdinand didn't have any hopes of getting back into politics and the military now, which Heinrich in 1786 most certainly did, only for FW2 to refuse to let him rejoin the army - which he'd left in the Bavarian war - and thereby set the tone for the rest of his life.)
I'm sure Heinrich would have said something on this matter to his personal circle of friends, but alas, Lehndorff's diaries from that time are lost. Anyway, I just checked with Ziebura again who gives Heinrich's precise orders for how his dead body and funeral are to be handled, and while he doesn't mention either prohibiting or allowing autopsy or embalming, the rest is very Fritz like, as befits l'autre moi-meme, especially point 5 (wants to be dressed in his oldest uniform, and if his legs are swollen, the boots can be cut upon, he doesn't want to be a disgusting spectacle for the world), 10) (no torches around his body when it's laid out, just a single guard to make sure he's really dead for a night and to keep the cats and dogs from having a go at it, no flowers and other decorations on his coffin), and 9) Count Roedern is supposed to remind the King (FW3) that the Comte de la Roche-Raymon is in charge of the funeral and that Heinrich wants to be buried at Rheinsberg in the vault he built for himself, with the epitaph he wrote.
BTW, cats and dogs: I never realised this before, but that means Heinrich must have kept some at Rheinsberg, or people from his household did.
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Re: Various questions from Mildred
Date: 2021-02-27 08:08 am (UTC)I'm sure Heinrich would have said something on this matter to his personal circle of friends, but alas, Lehndorff's diaries from that time are lost. Anyway, I just checked with Ziebura again who gives Heinrich's precise orders for how his dead body and funeral are to be handled, and while he doesn't mention either prohibiting or allowing autopsy or embalming, the rest is very Fritz like, as befits l'autre moi-meme, especially point 5 (wants to be dressed in his oldest uniform, and if his legs are swollen, the boots can be cut upon, he doesn't want to be a disgusting spectacle for the world), 10) (no torches around his body when it's laid out, just a single guard to make sure he's really dead for a night and to keep the cats and dogs from having a go at it, no flowers and other decorations on his coffin), and 9) Count Roedern is supposed to remind the King (FW3) that the Comte de la Roche-Raymon is in charge of the funeral and that Heinrich wants to be buried at Rheinsberg in the vault he built for himself, with the epitaph he wrote.
BTW, cats and dogs: I never realised this before, but that means Heinrich must have kept some at Rheinsberg, or people from his household did.