1) F1 after drinking a cup of mocca coffee at his stepmom's table collapses. Danckelmann (as far as F1 is concerned) saves his life by giving him a digestive that makes him throw up.

Oh, interesting. I was wondering what exactly Sophie was talking about with the antitoxin mention...

At which point F1 decides he's had enough and is hightailing it out of Brandenburg with his pregnant wife

And who can blame him really, even without the poisoning hype going around.

Unlike the author of the book felis found, neither Schmidt nor Göse think Sophie was meddling and following an evil agenda here.

HA. Although I'm sure that Sophie was Not Amused when she heard about the insults directed at her daughter.

re: the poisoning - given the initial Versailles affair, I can see how it became somewhat of a hyped topic across Europe.

Firstly, the Elector being awful to his sons is on him, not her.

I'll say.

Methinks he probably thought Dad did but wasn't able to say so, hence blamed Stepmom.

Hmmm.

I'm completely blaming him for 200 years of F1 dissings.

Heh. For all the granddad bashing, it's still fascinating to me that he invoked him as a precedent during his interrogation in 1730.