Isn't it? Other things I loved: the close look at his velvet-covered desks for example, and Henriette Graf's dry "who'd have thought" comment re: Fritz liking the little quatrepieds because he could keep books and writing equipment in them, ha.
One additional detail: the last video in this SPSG YT playlist gives a short look at the "dark staircase" behind the marble gallery, i.e. the servant stairs between the walls. (Whereas the first video, about Auguste Victoria's quarters - I forgot that WII had the New Palais as his main residence - told me that apparently, nobody had bothered to look into a locked closet for a hundred years, and when they finally picked the lock in 2018, they found lots and lots of her 19th century family letters, which she probably forgot to take into exile.* I know the Palais is quite huge, but wow.)
*WII did of course take a lot of art and furniture with him in 1918 (the infamous 60 wagons), kept in Haus Doorn in the Netherlands to this day and including, as I've just now found out, lots of Fritz's stuff, like portraits of his friends (the Pesne ones of Jordan and Keyserlingk for example!) and many of his snuff boxes. Huh.
Re: Virtual Guided Tours
One additional detail: the last video in this SPSG YT playlist gives a short look at the "dark staircase" behind the marble gallery, i.e. the servant stairs between the walls. (Whereas the first video, about Auguste Victoria's quarters - I forgot that WII had the New Palais as his main residence - told me that apparently, nobody had bothered to look into a locked closet for a hundred years, and when they finally picked the lock in 2018, they found lots and lots of her 19th century family letters, which she probably forgot to take into exile.* I know the Palais is quite huge, but wow.)
*WII did of course take a lot of art and furniture with him in 1918 (the infamous 60 wagons), kept in Haus Doorn in the Netherlands to this day and including, as I've just now found out, lots of Fritz's stuff, like portraits of his friends (the Pesne ones of Jordan and Keyserlingk for example!) and many of his snuff boxes. Huh.