since in 1744, he was surely busy fighting Silesia 2 and not in Berlin to carry the baby?
I thought of that (and noted the "is said"), but I don't have a birth month for her, and the war didn't start until August. Rödenbeck has him not leaving until August 15. In fact, I see Fritz did the same thing that he did right before the Seven Years' War, which was spend August 9 and 10 with SD at Monbijou before heading off to war. I checked AW's birthday, and it is indeed August 9.
So until I have a birth month for her, there's a decent chance he actually was in Berlin/Potsdam/Spandau at the time.
Looking at the fanvid I put together (which turns out to be an excellent, if imperfect, reference work), he was in Silesia for part of March, and taking the waters in Pyrmont in May, but otherwise in the vicinity of Berlin from January to August 15.
Maybe, if he married in 1742 and died in 1745, he needed a nurse? :P
LOL. Maybe!
That reminds me, when Whitworth was in bad health in the last few years of his life, he wrote that he felt bad about how this was affecting his wife, but that she had accepted this 'in the handsomest manner possible, and talks as if a Nurse & a Wife were onely different terms for the same thing.'
Some would say they are, Whitworth, or at least they would say so in Fritz's presence. :P
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Re: Keyserlingk, sensational gossip, and Royal Reader request
Date: 2021-07-03 05:44 pm (UTC)I thought of that (and noted the "is said"), but I don't have a birth month for her, and the war didn't start until August. Rödenbeck has him not leaving until August 15. In fact, I see Fritz did the same thing that he did right before the Seven Years' War, which was spend August 9 and 10 with SD at Monbijou before heading off to war. I checked AW's birthday, and it is indeed August 9.
So until I have a birth month for her, there's a decent chance he actually was in Berlin/Potsdam/Spandau at the time.
Looking at the fanvid I put together (which turns out to be an excellent, if imperfect, reference work), he was in Silesia for part of March, and taking the waters in Pyrmont in May, but otherwise in the vicinity of Berlin from January to August 15.
Maybe, if he married in 1742 and died in 1745, he needed a nurse? :P
LOL. Maybe!
That reminds me, when Whitworth was in bad health in the last few years of his life, he wrote that he felt bad about how this was affecting his wife, but that she had accepted this 'in the handsomest manner possible, and talks as if a Nurse & a Wife were onely different terms for the same thing.'
Some would say they are, Whitworth, or at least they would say so in Fritz's presence. :P