My philosophical principle is like that of Democritos, to mock everything, especially myself.
Conclusion: their defense mechanisms are pretty identical at this point.
:( But at least they had defense mechanisms, I guess? Seems like a common one for their Hohenzollern generation, anyway...
but Fritz had arranged a secret meeting on his way to the front, via Knobelsdorff, no less (who is entrusted by Fritz to arrange it while carrying the letter giving FW's official "no meeting!" decree). They meet at a lake in Berneck in a small country residence
I gotta say I'm glad that they did get to meet; it made me sad when you said above that they didn't get to.
and no sooner do I write it that I recall that Berneck is also where Wilhelmine will meet MT a decade later. Um.
I gotta say I'm glad that they did get to meet; it made me sad when you said above that they didn't get to.
Wilhelmine, in her written-during-the-breakup memoirs, says "my brother loaded me with caresses" and that "it was the last time we were on the old footing - what a change has taken place since then!"
This doesn't just refer to their 1740s quarrels but to Fritz, when he was on his way back to Berlin after Philipsburg, fully expected to become King (FW having gotten so ill that everyone predicted his imminent death in the autumn/winter of 1734) and came across as "preoccupied and withdrawn", plus he lectured her on what her husband should do for Prussia. Whereas the secret Knobelsdorff-arranged meeting was a no holds bared us-against-the-world reunion. However, like I said: this is written in retrospect in a time when she was arguing with him and venting through memoirs-writing. This said, Fritz in his next letter to Wilhelmine opens by thanking her for the wonderful meeting in the house at the lake, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was significant in his memory, too, enough so to be doubly angry when learning about lunch with MT in the same town! (No idea whether it was also the same place.)
Fritz in his next letter to Wilhelmine opens by thanking her for the wonderful meeting in the house at the lake, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was significant in his memory, too, enough so to be doubly angry when learning about lunch with MT in the same town!
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Re: More on Hohenzollern family life
Date: 2021-03-26 05:31 am (UTC)Conclusion: their defense mechanisms are pretty identical at this point.
:( But at least they had defense mechanisms, I guess? Seems like a common one for their Hohenzollern generation, anyway...
but Fritz had arranged a secret meeting on his way to the front, via Knobelsdorff, no less (who is entrusted by Fritz to arrange it while carrying the letter giving FW's official "no meeting!" decree). They meet at a lake in Berneck in a small country residence
I gotta say I'm glad that they did get to meet; it made me sad when you said above that they didn't get to.
and no sooner do I write it that I recall that Berneck is also where Wilhelmine will meet MT a decade later. Um.
Heh.
Re: More on Hohenzollern family life
Date: 2021-03-26 06:55 am (UTC)I gotta say I'm glad that they did get to meet; it made me sad when you said above that they didn't get to.
Wilhelmine, in her written-during-the-breakup memoirs, says "my brother loaded me with caresses" and that "it was the last time we were on the old footing - what a change has taken place since then!"
This doesn't just refer to their 1740s quarrels but to Fritz, when he was on his way back to Berlin after Philipsburg, fully expected to become King (FW having gotten so ill that everyone predicted his imminent death in the autumn/winter of 1734) and came across as "preoccupied and withdrawn", plus he lectured her on what her husband should do for Prussia. Whereas the secret Knobelsdorff-arranged meeting was a no holds bared us-against-the-world reunion. However, like I said: this is written in retrospect in a time when she was arguing with him and venting through memoirs-writing. This said, Fritz in his next letter to Wilhelmine opens by thanking her for the wonderful meeting in the house at the lake, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was significant in his memory, too, enough so to be doubly angry when learning about lunch with MT in the same town! (No idea whether it was also the same place.)
Re: More on Hohenzollern family life
Date: 2021-03-26 10:37 am (UTC)!! I love the connection you discovered here.