I can't imagine he wouldn't want a trusted confidant with him, and even if he already has Katte, two trusted confidants for spying, message carrying, delegation, etc. would be even better.
Quite true, and I agree that Peter is likely to have been gung-ho from the start, and thus could be relied upon to go through with it. And there's this: if he doesn't desert, then, as a younger son of a not that important family, he has zero protection from an angry FW if FW should choose to hold him responsible once Fritz and Katte have made their successful escape. Which, if Peter got transfered to Wesel on suspicion because of an anonymous tip in the first place, he's almost bound to. At the very least, what happened to Spaen in rl would have happened to Peter. Probably worse, for as Spaen himself said, if Katte doesn't die, FW still is going to want a blood sacrifice.
Speaking of Spaen: I have to confess that before reading Nicolai, I didn't remember him. Though admittedly I only remembered Ingersleben because of [Bad username or unknown identity: prinzsorgenfrei"]'s tea cups art and because he got blamed for chaperoning Fritz with Doris Ritter. So, Spaen - did he exaggarate the degree of his involvement and/or friendship with pre-escape Fritz? I mean, if he got one year of Spandau anyway, he could have dealt with it better by reshaping his relatonship with the Crown Prince to one where he was an intimate friend on the same level as Katte and Keith, he just chose not to come along.
Otoh, if he really was a good friend, then we have an interesting "road not taken" for Peter, because Spaen, too, goes abroad into foreign service, only he stays abroad, and has his life and career there. Of course Peter ended up having a good life in Prussia, too, but early on, in 1741, say, before his marriage and with the difference betweeen Crown Prince Fritz and King Fritz being glaringly obvious even in absentia, there must have been times when he thought: Should have stayed in Portugal.
Of course, both of them had a fate infinitely preferable to Doris Ritter's. :(
Re: The Escape Attempt (Nicolai Version)
Quite true, and I agree that Peter is likely to have been gung-ho from the start, and thus could be relied upon to go through with it. And there's this: if he doesn't desert, then, as a younger son of a not that important family, he has zero protection from an angry FW if FW should choose to hold him responsible once Fritz and Katte have made their successful escape. Which, if Peter got transfered to Wesel on suspicion because of an anonymous tip in the first place, he's almost bound to. At the very least, what happened to Spaen in rl would have happened to Peter. Probably worse, for as Spaen himself said, if Katte doesn't die, FW still is going to want a blood sacrifice.
Speaking of Spaen: I have to confess that before reading Nicolai, I didn't remember him. Though admittedly I only remembered Ingersleben because of [Bad username or unknown identity: prinzsorgenfrei"]'s tea cups art and because he got blamed for chaperoning Fritz with Doris Ritter. So, Spaen - did he exaggarate the degree of his involvement and/or friendship with pre-escape Fritz? I mean, if he got one year of Spandau anyway, he could have dealt with it better by reshaping his relatonship with the Crown Prince to one where he was an intimate friend on the same level as Katte and Keith, he just chose not to come along.
Otoh, if he really was a good friend, then we have an interesting "road not taken" for Peter, because Spaen, too, goes abroad into foreign service, only he stays abroad, and has his life and career there. Of course Peter ended up having a good life in Prussia, too, but early on, in 1741, say, before his marriage and with the difference betweeen Crown Prince Fritz and King Fritz being glaringly obvious even in absentia, there must have been times when he thought: Should have stayed in Portugal.
Of course, both of them had a fate infinitely preferable to Doris Ritter's. :(