But -- wasn't he always aware that Remusberg was a story he liked to tell but that it wasn't anywhere near actual history? That's how it came across to me in his letters at least. And then there was the exchange with Voltaire regarding their Peter the Great disillusionment, where Fritz talks about historiography and how stories and rulers are shaped by the people writing them. So he was clearly aware of the issue as a Crown Prince, at least in theory.
Re: Montesquieu III: In which Fritz comments on tyrants, their successors and women in Politics