Later May and June is when Fritz and Wilhelmine have cleared the air and reconciled, though only via letters, not yet in person, so I imagine Fritz was on buyont patriarchal mood and decided he might as well patch up things with the brat as well, and taking him along on the wellness holidays was just the ticket. (Hey, shared holidays were so Dad's idea of enforcing family bonds, and after all, he'd started his roleplay where Heinrich was him and he was Dad!) Maybe he even thought that getting Heinrich alway from the rest of the Divine Trio (read: the brothers Heinrich very much prefered) would be conductive to this and give them a chance to get to know each other better.
If so, though, making jokes about Heinrich needing to marry was very much not the way to go about it*, and I bet for Heinrich, those were the holidays from hell. (And then the musicians were a let down, too.) Incidentally, Pöllnitz being along for the ride would also explain why Heinrich just two years later must have made the mistake of confiding in him, given that Pöllnitz was the one who ratted out Heinrich to Fritz re: Heinrich spending the nights away from his regiment in Berlin in the 1748/1749 crisis. Maybe they'd gotten somewhat close during the holidays from hell?
*unless it wasn't a joke, and Fritz started to get the idea that this would be just the disciplinary measure to tame Heinrich as early as that? Or maybe it started as a joke, he saw Heinrich's reaction and thought, hm, yeah, seems he feels like me about the prospect, which means I should keep this in mind as the ultimate disciplinary weapon...
Re: From Pyrmont With Love? Waters, Spies, and Dogs
If so, though, making jokes about Heinrich needing to marry was very much not the way to go about it*, and I bet for Heinrich, those were the holidays from hell. (And then the musicians were a let down, too.) Incidentally, Pöllnitz being along for the ride would also explain why Heinrich just two years later must have made the mistake of confiding in him, given that Pöllnitz was the one who ratted out Heinrich to Fritz re: Heinrich spending the nights away from his regiment in Berlin in the 1748/1749 crisis. Maybe they'd gotten somewhat close during the holidays from hell?
*unless it wasn't a joke, and Fritz started to get the idea that this would be just the disciplinary measure to tame Heinrich as early as that? Or maybe it started as a joke, he saw Heinrich's reaction and thought, hm, yeah, seems he feels like me about the prospect, which means I should keep this in mind as the ultimate disciplinary weapon...