For completeness sake: Frexit Letter in March, with two replies from Fritz in March (where he says that apparently, one of the Marwitzes at Bayreuth tried to set up a marriage for Pöllnitz, which fell through) and April (see below) / retraction letter in July, with a reply from Fritz where he installs the condition that, among other things, Pöllnitz isn't allowed to talk to foreign envoys about things that happened at the King's table anymore.
Thank you for the details! And the satirical job reference is hilarious.
Obvious question is obvious: did he expect Pöllnitz to obey?
I have to point out that Voltaire was also made to sign an agreement not to satirize members of Fritz's court, and we don't know what on earth Fritz expected there! :P
Dorothée = Dorothea Sophie (WHY? she wasn't even from Hanover! :P
It's not just Hanover! Katte's mom was Dorothea Sophia von Wartensleben!
Re: the poisoning suspicion - independent of whether or not it is true, it's definitely not just Pöllnitz who brought it up...This comes up, among other things, when Fritz is interrogated after the escape attempt and points to the precedence of Granddad as crown prince getting the hell out of Prussia. (To which FW said it had been totally different since his father had been afraid of poison as far as I recall.)
When felis mentioned the poisoning story, I remembered that you'd told us on more than one occasion that F1 had accused his stepmother of poison and fled, but the interrogation protocols were the only primary source I could name, and that's a couple generations later. Do you know of more contemporary sources, Selena?
Yeah, terrible medicine and court rumour mills seem like a perfect combination for fostering poisoning theories...
Re: Pöllnitz: Secret Keeper?
For completeness sake: Frexit Letter in March, with two replies from Fritz in March (where he says that apparently, one of the Marwitzes at Bayreuth tried to set up a marriage for Pöllnitz, which fell through) and April (see below) / retraction letter in July, with a reply from Fritz where he installs the condition that, among other things, Pöllnitz isn't allowed to talk to foreign envoys about things that happened at the King's table anymore.
Thank you for the details! And the satirical job reference is hilarious.
Obvious question is obvious: did he expect Pöllnitz to obey?
I have to point out that Voltaire was also made to sign an agreement not to satirize members of Fritz's court, and we don't know what on earth Fritz expected there! :P
Dorothée = Dorothea Sophie (WHY? she wasn't even from Hanover! :P
It's not just Hanover! Katte's mom was Dorothea Sophia von Wartensleben!
Re: the poisoning suspicion - independent of whether or not it is true, it's definitely not just Pöllnitz who brought it up...This comes up, among other things, when Fritz is interrogated after the escape attempt and points to the precedence of Granddad as crown prince getting the hell out of Prussia. (To which FW said it had been totally different since his father had been afraid of poison as far as I recall.)
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Yeah, terrible medicine and court rumour mills seem like a perfect combination for fostering poisoning theories...
Indeed.