Reminder: ever since the Clement affair, the Prussians also opened envoy letters they got their hands on. Not all the time, but often enough. If you read Oncken, you'd think the Brits were the only ones to open letters and invented the practice.
Lolol, everyone was opening all the letters they could!
there are slightly contradictory reports from Hotham, Seckendorff and Grumbkow in their respective letters as to whether or not Hotham offered FW as a last minute compromise what FW wanted all along, the separation of the two marriages, with FoW/Wilhelmine now, and Fritz/any of G2's daughters he wants a few years later
See, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know! It's useful when you're reading other sources that say one or the other.
FW, meanwhile, only acted like the thoroughly decent honest man he was, indignant about all this British double talk, about the disregard of private mail and about the slander of his faithful servants, and deeply wounded in the backstabbing from his own family. So there.
Facepalming so hard. I was about to thank you for taking one for the team again, and that reminded me--there was the 1944 (!) book that we think might have the source for the Fredersdorf embezzlement accusation.
Alfred Weise: König und Kämmerer - Eine Freundschaft. Berlin 1944.
Any chance you can get your hands on that via book order?
(You spoil us so much that we just want more! :D <3)
(Still waiting for my copy of Fahlenkamp, btw, sigh. It's now taken almost as long as the calendar!)
re: the Weise book - I doubt it. The problem is the age of the book. There's no way I'll be allowed to read a book that old outside of the reading room, and the reading rooms aren't available yet, and won't be any time soon the way our infection numbers are on the rise again due to the mutations and the slow vaccinations.
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Re: English marriage intrigues
Reminder: ever since the Clement affair, the Prussians also opened envoy letters they got their hands on. Not all the time, but often enough. If you read Oncken, you'd think the Brits were the only ones to open letters and invented the practice.
Lolol, everyone was opening all the letters they could!
there are slightly contradictory reports from Hotham, Seckendorff and Grumbkow in their respective letters as to whether or not Hotham offered FW as a last minute compromise what FW wanted all along, the separation of the two marriages, with FoW/Wilhelmine now, and Fritz/any of G2's daughters he wants a few years later
See, that's the kind of thing I wanted to know! It's useful when you're reading other sources that say one or the other.
FW, meanwhile, only acted like the thoroughly decent honest man he was, indignant about all this British double talk, about the disregard of private mail and about the slander of his faithful servants, and deeply wounded in the backstabbing from his own family. So there.
Facepalming so hard. I was about to thank you for taking one for the team again, and that reminded me--there was the 1944 (!) book that we think might have the source for the Fredersdorf embezzlement accusation.
Alfred Weise: König und Kämmerer - Eine Freundschaft. Berlin 1944.
Any chance you can get your hands on that via book order?
(You spoil us so much that we just want more! :D <3)
(Still waiting for my copy of Fahlenkamp, btw, sigh. It's now taken almost as long as the calendar!)
Re: English marriage intrigues