LOL, well, Heinrich the Anti who publishes anoymous "To Fritz: What you did wrong in the Silesian Wars" pamphlets and writes seething letters is his own category. :) Wilhelmine's Fritz critique in the memoirs wasn't meant to ever be read by Fritz, and in her letters to him even during the enstrangement she's way more restrained. Never mind the non-argument years. (I mean, it's telling that when she tries to fix things between him and AW, her opening argument is "yes, he made mistakes, but none of us are perfect, except you, and you can't expect others to share your degree of awesome perfection".) Otoh Wilhelmine is actually according to Fritz himself the family member whose criticism he took to heart and changed his ways for in one regard, to wit, starting to read outside of school lessons and for fun when they were children and she (gently) chided him for never bothering with books. (And you can see him trying to do that same thing for AW years later.)
He also seems to have not just minded but liked it that SD bossed him a bit about wearing decent shirts when visiting her and letting her send some to him, making the effort to clean up for her as he didn't anymore post 7 Years War. But of course that kind of mothering (and big sistering) isn't criticism comparable to someone saying "Fritz, for God's sake, accept that some of the military defeats are your fault, not your generals" or "maybe try not to piss off Uncle George by your choice of Versailles envoy? You might need him soon?"
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LOL, well, Heinrich the Anti who publishes anoymous "To Fritz: What you did wrong in the Silesian Wars" pamphlets and writes seething letters is his own category. :) Wilhelmine's Fritz critique in the memoirs wasn't meant to ever be read by Fritz, and in her letters to him even during the enstrangement she's way more restrained. Never mind the non-argument years. (I mean, it's telling that when she tries to fix things between him and AW, her opening argument is "yes, he made mistakes, but none of us are perfect, except you, and you can't expect others to share your degree of awesome perfection".) Otoh Wilhelmine is actually according to Fritz himself the family member whose criticism he took to heart and changed his ways for in one regard, to wit, starting to read outside of school lessons and for fun when they were children and she (gently) chided him for never bothering with books. (And you can see him trying to do that same thing for AW years later.)
He also seems to have not just minded but liked it that SD bossed him a bit about wearing decent shirts when visiting her and letting her send some to him, making the effort to clean up for her as he didn't anymore post 7 Years War. But of course that kind of mothering (and big sistering) isn't criticism comparable to someone saying "Fritz, for God's sake, accept that some of the military defeats are your fault, not your generals" or "maybe try not to piss off Uncle George by your choice of Versailles envoy? You might need him soon?"