Suhm clearly lucked out there, not being around as a potential FW target, yes.
Stratemann: I don't know what you're talking about. My reports around that time keep stating that the King will pardon Katte and recall the Crown Prince any minute now. Also look, by Christmas, he's being a model Dad, shopping for his kids. He's just such a lovely man, a model parent to his model family, and that's exactly what I'm reporting to Braunschweig.
Every other envoy: Head. Desk.
Still, Suhm doesn't seem to have done Saxony any good with FW. Perhaps he and Fritz were close already in 1727 (hopefully as father figure rather than erastes at this date!), and with FW's health, they hoped that his rising son connections would help any minute now?
Could be. After all, that's when Rottembourg is actually conspiring for a hot minute, so clearly in 1727, FW comes across as vulnerable either to illness or to being declared insane.
Good point about August possibly going over Flemming's head in insisting Suhm stays in Berlin (or rather returns there). Not least as a point of pride. (No one is kicking MY envoy out of the country.)
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Re: Le Diable: The Political Biography - B
Date: 2021-03-14 03:57 pm (UTC)Stratemann: I don't know what you're talking about. My reports around that time keep stating that the King will pardon Katte and recall the Crown Prince any minute now. Also look, by Christmas, he's being a model Dad, shopping for his kids. He's just such a lovely man, a model parent to his model family, and that's exactly what I'm reporting to Braunschweig.
Every other envoy: Head. Desk.
Still, Suhm doesn't seem to have done Saxony any good with FW. Perhaps he and Fritz were close already in 1727 (hopefully as father figure rather than erastes at this date!), and with FW's health, they hoped that his rising son connections would help any minute now?
Could be. After all, that's when Rottembourg is actually conspiring for a hot minute, so clearly in 1727, FW comes across as vulnerable either to illness or to being declared insane.
Good point about August possibly going over Flemming's head in insisting Suhm stays in Berlin (or rather returns there). Not least as a point of pride. (No one is kicking MY envoy out of the country.)